Timothy Dyck

CONTENT MANAGEMENT At last months internet World, Digital Creations CEO Paul Everitt filled me in on the companys plans to focus on building content management systems. Although known largely for its open-source Zope application server, Digital Creations (www.digicool.com) takes a refreshingly service-oriented approach to its business. The company sees itself not as an application server […]

Oracle Corp.s release last fall of its Oracle9i Application Server marked the first determined effort in the market to combine the benefits of caching with an application server. The product includes a Web cache and a read-only database cache, and both have the potential to expedite dynamic Web page generation (the whole point of an […]

Caching has risen from the dead over the past year. We at eWeek Labs now see it being used in very nontraditional ways, such as database and streaming-media caching, even while its traditional application, serving up static Web pages, starts to disappear. Database caching is just starting to enter the mainstream, with traditional database companies […]

At the eWeek Excellence Awards winners banquet last month, I had the opportunity to hear about one of the most interesting companies Ive come across in a while. Centrinity has, over the past decade, developed an incredibly ambitious voice, e-mail, instant messaging, fax and groupware integrated communications system (called FirstClass Unified Messaging) based on the […]

eWeek labs this past year had up-close-and-personal experience with the data security, privacy and integrity issues that keep e-business managers up at night: the eWeek eXcellence Awards Web site (www.excellenceawardsonline.com). Significantly increasing the complexity of the Web project was our requirement that companies nominating products make a donation of $100 to the Starlight Childrens Foundation […]

Those who need to support Compaqs line of laptops, desktops and servers will find ActiveUpdate 2.0 (Compaq SoftPaq 16266), the companys automated software update agent, a significant step beyond the traditional hunt-and-click method Compaq has required them to use in the past. Using ActiveUpdate, you no longer have to search through Compaqs site every few […]

Realizing the cart cant go before the horse, Microsoft Corp. has developed a comprehensive set of proposed standards about how to use XML to send and receive business-to-business messages online. The BizTalk Framework 2.0 specification, released in December, updates its 1.0 predecessor adding ways to check for reliable message delivery, and it includes information on […]

One of the continuing problems Web developers face is how to develop pages that look good and work properly, no matter what browser, connection speed or screen resolutions visitors use. WebSideStorys StatMarket service provides some of these statistics based on daily traffic data collected from 150,000 sites visited by 50 million users. The service provides […]

MySQL ABs widely used open-source database, MySQL, is taking a big step forward in the corporate world with the addition of transaction support. Until now, MySQL has been most popular as a content back end for dynamic Web sites because it is lightweight, free, fast and simple to use. Theres also a wealth of information […]

Anyone whos tried out a beta of or otherwise seen Ximians upcoming Evolution mail and calendaring client probably did the same initial double take I did: The software looks amazingly like Microsofts Outlook, down to the ordering of buttons, images used on icons, choice of fonts, and position and selection of on-screen shading. The effort […]

eWeek labs just-completed Openhack III test was a great exercise in low-level security hacking, but dont forget that good security is also about issues technology cant resolve. As a case in point, here is my favorite Openhack e-mail in slightly edited form: “Give me the protocol to upload a page to the http://xtype.openhack.com/ server, and […]

Im a big fan of Hertzs NeverLost GPS-based navigational system, as Im so often in strange cities trying to drive to places Ive never been before. Its accurate, it automatically recalculates my route when I miss an exit, and, best of all, the output is oral, so I dont have to look away from the […]