Dan Grossman | Stumbling

Owner of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.

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Maintenance Screens and Updates

October 10, 2008

“Web 2.0″ sites always have better maintenance screens when they go offline than big companies. PayPal smashed some red text in my face about site unavailability, while Lijit gives you a video to watch:

Delicious: Proof that Symfony is a scalable framework

August 3, 2008

Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony [...]

How DNS Poisoning Works

July 23, 2008

This is the first explanation of how DNS poisoning attacks work that I could make sense of without first reading a book on DNS. Interesting stuff: Reliable DNS Forgery in 2008: Kaminsky’s Discovery.

Who knew there was a Chinese version of my site

October 25, 2007

I was going through the popular pages report for Website Goodies when I came across something strange. Looks like something written in a non-western character set… coming up as a page of my site? Turns out doseo.org copied the HTML and images for Website Goodies and filled in (mostly) their own content. They even [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

October 22, 2007

Kansas State University’s really putting out some interesting videos. Stumbled upon this one, essentially defining “web 2.0″, while reading the SoftLayer blog.

A Vision of Students Today

October 17, 2007

I would’ve enjoyed that class — those students have a great professor.

Why isn’t my Firefox 3D like the Japanese version?

October 13, 2007

And why don’t our TV show hosts wear fox ears when covering the browser?

New del.icio.us built with symfony

October 2, 2007

What better endorsement can PHP as a language and symfony as an enterprise framework for that language get than Yahoo! building the new delicious service with them. That’s the news from the official symfony blog, where they also note Yahoo! will be contributing their bug fixes and extensions back to the symfony community.