Web + Open Source

According to new research released today by Bernard Golden (Navica) and O’Reilly Research, there are at least six reasons compelling the rapid rise of open source in the enterprise.

• Agility and scale,
• reduced vendor lock-in,
• quality and security,
• cost,
• sovereignty,
• and innovation.

The report also covers; Read the rest of this entry »

If you looking to quick way to avoid high local bandwidth charges or manage high traffic sites more efficiently try add this into your mod_rewrite block in your .htaccess file.

	# High bandwidth redirect
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} digg\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} blogspot\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} reddit\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} slashdot\.org
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://wwwa.domainname.com/$1 [R,L]

Read the rest of this entry »

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionising business reporting around the world. It offers major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information which offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data.

The idea behind XBRL, eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is simple. Instead of treating financial information as a block of text, as in a standard internet page or a printed document, it provides an identifying tag for each individual item of data.

Read the rest of this entry »