WebClient, Fiddler and SSL
I am developing a credit card authorization library which uses the WebClient class...
Hammering the DOM
As I work on my ASP.net jQuery controls, I got to thinking about what “animations” really are...
Just getting started
Welcome to ClipperHouse.com. It’s a place for my work and thoughts and stuff...
Free shipping: getting closer
Public Knowledge points out AT&T’s new Terms which give different treatment to video based on its source...
The long game on metered pricing: free shipping
Time-Warner cable has begun to roll out its metered pricing plan in Beaumont, Texas...
The biggest threat to your rights? Scarcity.
I would not have predicted this: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should allow broadband providers to manage their networks and slow “bandwidth hogs,” despite concerns that such practices arbitrarily target some customers, said a coalition of seven civil rights groups...
Somewhere in Brussels, some buggy whips need gilding
One might think we live in feudal times, what with an unelected bureaucrat being able to tax companies arbitrarily and retroactively...
Demand first, then supply
Paul Buchheit, whom I’ve never read prior, has a very nice article about what makes a successful company: You can take the smartest, most experienced, most connected, most brilliant people in the world and have them build the most stunningly designed and technically advanced product in the world, but if people don’t want it, then you will fail...
Entrepeneurs vs bureacrats
A great story about TJ Rodgers’ personal green revolution. Rich: UN committees. Reach: entrepeneurs...
Regulation, incumbency, haves and have-nots
When we talk about regulations, in housing or agriculture or the Internet, it is usually sold as being intended to protect some “little guy” — be it the “family farm” or the file sharer...