Web Admin Blog

We have a pretty decent-sized SOA implementation here.  I got interviewed by InformationWeek magazine about it, and you can read my thoughts on SOAP vs REST and related topics in: InformationWeek Analytics: State Of SOA

I am moved to post today by a gripe.  We have a lot of products and SaaS vendors that for some reason feel like they don’t need to support browsers other than whatever it is they have in their mind as the one browser they’re going to support.   I have Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 8 […]

I’ve had a couple of discussions lately about customized Apache error pages that prompted me to do a little bit of research on it.  What I’ve come up with is somewhat interesting so I thought I’d share it with everyone.  First, it is not technically possible to tell Apache to serve up a different error […]

Recently I was elected the new Treasurer of the Capitol of Texas Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association.  No, that’s not my way to seek your approval, but thanks for the kudos.  The reason why I bring this up is that one of the first things I needed to do as the new Treasurer […]

We knew that the historic inauguration of Barack Obama would be generating a lot more Internet traffic than usual, both in general and specifically here at NI.  Being prudent Web Admin types, we checked around to make sure we thought that there wouldn’t be any untoward effects on our Web site.  Like many corporate sites, […]

As you all know, the economic climate of 2009 is a cold, cold winter indeed.  And like wolves starved by the cold and hardship of the season, our suppliers have turned feral. When everyone’s sales slip due to the down economy, companies (and individual sales reps) are desperate to make their numbers.  How are they […]