web notes - a blog

Web development companies are like any other service provider. Quality, price, and service varies. Unlike other service providers, you can really examine a web company's work - both for themselves and for their clients. If you are considering a web… more »

Most web companies have very high speed Internet connections. This may improve productivity for those that develop on remote, publicly accessible servers, but it can also prevent the development team from appreciating the impact of the design and front-… more »

The link above is a link to Secunia, which tracks security issues for many products. Interpreting the data is definitely subjective, for the following reasons: If an application is constantly being tested and reviewed for security issues, problem… more »

Allowing users to run regular expression (REGEXP) searches through a web interface provides excellent search capabilities with very little engineering. One need only change WHERE `field`='value' to WHERE `field` REGEXP 'regex'. A problem arises if th… more »

Pay particular attention to the site visitor IP addresses in the web stats. Any IP address that has a significant amount of requests for unknown reasons should be suspect. Use the link above, or its overseas equivalent to determine who the IP add… more »