Fubaredness Is Contagious

From time to time, I come across a statement that every service on the Internet must have an API, or people behind this service are doing it wrong. This phrase usually applies specifically to publicly available API.
As a user who stands to benefit from increased number of services allowing third-party applications and mashups, I certainly [...]

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Most folks in the industry are familiar with “distributed applications.” If app components are running on multiple hosts and need to communicate with each other using network, the app is said to be distributed.
Distributed applications are known for complexity of assuring all components are on the same page as to what’s going on around them. [...]

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This week marks the beginning of a new era in Internet search. For the first time in modern Internet history, there is a number 2 with sizable market share. This is going to become interesting once Bing and Yahoo! finish integration.
I switched to Google Search many years ago because it was the best – its [...]

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I have been using Google Reader as my main RSS aggregator for several years now. Unlike some others, I however continue to use a desktop-based RSS client to subscribe to private feeds. This was an intuitive decision, I didn’t spend much time thinking about it.
Earlier this week, I was in for a big surprise. I [...]

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Most people who work with Internet know about RFC1918 “Address Allocation for Private Internets.” But did you know that RFC 3330 “Special-Use IPv4 Addresses” has even more address spaces allocated for non-public use?
I didn’t know about it till today.

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