Two million .au domains!

We received an email a few months back from auDA, the Australian Domain Authority, saying that .there are now over 2 million .au domains!  Given our population, this is roughly one domain every ten people!  [corrected - Ed!]

For comparison's sake, there are now well over 96 million .com domains, according to Domain Tools

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Firebug is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to view the source code of the site. Big woop, right? Well, what makes it special is that you can also modify the code so that you can see what the changes look like before altering the actual file. If you don't like it, no worries, you can just refresh the page and the modification is gone. If you do like the change you can then go into the CSS file and update the source code. Read the rest of this entry »

Two curios this month – one, a real life startrek replicator – the "3d printer", and the second – well – we'll leave it to explain itself … Read the rest of this entry »

For the system administrators among you:

MX records, as some of you would already know, provide a DNS-based prioritized fallback method for email servers.  The idea is that it is possible to supply a list of servers that will accept your email, where the lowest number MX server is tried, then the next, and so on until a valid connection is made and the email is then sent over that connection. Read the rest of this entry »

We think that for many projects it is!  Here’s a quick overview of the longer talk we’ll be presenting at The Internet Show. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently found a great article about the Australian NBN that is worth a quick read as it makes some fascinating points that don't seem to get much airtime amongst all the complaining. Read the rest of this entry »

Brian Coogan is speaking about eCommerce and Payments at The Internet Show at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Theatre 2 on:

• Wednesday, May 4th, at 11 am and
• Thursday, May 5th, at 12:35 pm

The discussion topic will be, "Halving your development costs with New Generation Open Source." 

If anyone would like an invitation to the event, let us know!!

We all have that moment when, we go to look at our website and instead of feeling that warm glow as our site stares back at us, our heart suddenly skips a beat as a message "Server not found" appears. This article will help you tell if your website is down, or it's just you that can't see it. Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a digest of a few simple (but non-obvious) thoughts re web design, with some more reading for those interested. Read the rest of this entry »

There's almost nothing worse than your website getting hacked, and possibly having to endure days of problems while the host retrieves your files and/or gets you to repair the site.  It's important to have some basic knowledge about what happens, as you may be able to save yourself some pain, or minimize it if something does happen to your website! Read the rest of this entry »