SQLFusion blogs

Richard MacManus just listed Drag Drop Sitecreator in his blog.

He is asking tech comments on it.
I would say it is very cool but I am to much involved in the project for an honest opinion.

Give it a try and do not compare it to Homestead but to dreamweaver and contribute.

The online demo doesn't show the full platform (open source fusion) that powers it.
A few fortune 500 companies uses it to maintain complex database application with thousands of users.
From enterprise to a 5 pages web site, one tool and one platform (LAMP).

Richard also list other interesting projects and companies. Like inform.com looks very interesting, you can dig deep in the news and related context.
When you have to go parse 1000 news/blog articles a day any tools than can help is welcome.

Interesting blog (now part of my feeds).

Thanks,

There is a belief that open source software is more secure.
A lot of people are using firefox because they thinks it's more secure than Internet Explorer.
According to Symantec that's not the case. In the past 6 months they have recorded twice as many vulnerabilities in Mozilla/Firefox than in Internet Explorer.
I've seen similar reports on some Linux distributions like Fedora versus Microsoft servers.

So is open source really more secure?

Yes it is.
Because the development and support process is much more adapted to security threats.
Flaws in open source applications are generaly fixed and deployed much more quickly.
The risk and danger of those flaws is much more limited, by design. You can't get Administrator access from an open source web browser.

What may explain why you have more identified vulnerabilities on open source software is that its source code is read by thousands of people.
So you can expect a mature open source application to reach a point where it will have no security flaws, or a very small number.
This didn't happen for Internet Explorer, which hasn't evolved much in the past 5 years and is still full of security flaws.

We were affected by the power outage.
Our servers are in the Garland building in downtown Los Angeles. They have a UPS backup, but after the batteries ran out the generators failed to take over. The power outage began at about 12 pm and our servers shutdown at around 2 pm.
We were fortunate in that the downtime was only about 10 minutes, and then power was restored and most machines came back up on their own.
One of our servers didn't boot, so I went to the data center to manually reboot it. There were a lot of other people there doing the same.
This is a good wake-up call for disaster recovery plans.

A Bill Gates Interview on Google, Web applications and Open Source.
Very interesting, although it's a bit of a sales pitch. But the difference between the Microsoft software legacy and future trends is clearly evident.
He even talks about Frontbridge (an email company) -- we helped manage their massive MySQL Open Source database. It had more than a terabyte of data.
I don't know if Frontbridge was still using MySQL at the time of purchase, but when we worked with them they had a very strong open source culture, using Postfix, MySQL, PHP and Perl.
http://news.zdnet.com/Bill+Gates+takes+on+Google/2100-9593_22-5864352.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

That news is about Microsoft targeting the SMB market. Microsoft is also going after the web designers and web developers:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/default.aspx