The Insider News

Tim Anderson's ITWriting[^]:

Adobe’s Roy Fielding, who is also the original author of the W3C’s Tracking Preference Expression draft, has patched Apache, the open source web server, to ignore the Do Not Track header sent by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, the browser in Windows 8. Even if you agree with Fielding’s views on browser defaults, quietly patching the world’s most used web server to ignore the IE10 setting looks hard to defend, especially on a matter that is far from clear cut. Fielding is personally involved, not only as the author of the Tracking Preference Expression document, but also as an employee of Adobe, which specialises in digital marketing and may be more aligned with the vendors and their brands which may want to track user activity wherever their ads appear, rather than with end users.

Tomm’s Tinkerings[^]:

I use C# with .NET or Mono on a daily basis. To be honest, I love the language. It’s clean, efficient and simple. Yesterday however, I suggested on IRC that whilst C# has definately benefited OpenSim with its simple debugging, rapid development and wide selection of prebuilt classes to choose from, it was not a great choice for what is, essentially, a high performance application. Upon stating this, a couple of people chirped up to tell me that while a language like C or C++ would provide better performance, I would be suprised how far JIT compilers have come. I decided to put this to the test.