Floating Menu Bar

Your entire site can be navigated from a Floating Menu Bar. It is a popup window and it works like a remote control. Clicking on a menu item displays the appropriate page in the main browser window.

Will Microsoft Search Kill Apache?

Microsoft dominates the software world because they are better at strategy than anyone else. Beginning with the way they beat everyone to the punch with Altair BASIC, to their decision to embrace the PC platform, over and over we see very sharp strategy from Microsoft. MSN is already a very popular search service. They're also an ISP, and a major portal. 1/3 of web users…

Centrally Monitoring Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

Monitoring Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 is important even for small environments. Automatically monitored, critical failures can often be avoided. But how to monitor a system without too much effort? The basic idea behind a successful monitoring and alerting system is to centralize all system events at a single monitoring station. Once the information is centralized, it can be used to build an alerting system or even carry…

Digital River’s Destructive Acquisition Strategy

Most of us have grown weary of Digital River's acquisitions and are no longer shocked when the announcements are made. How many of us have considered the implications involved in the volume of "takeovers"? I, like almost everyone in the industry, have been fairly complacent about the acquisitions, but now I'm seeing limited choices for developers and the fact is the "little guy" can no…