Tuesday, October 12, 2004

PayPal users still stranded as site glitch continues. A coding error during routine upgrade maintenance at online payment Web site PayPal.com has created havoc for users, who have had only intermittent access to their accounts since Friday. [Computerworld News]
6:12:54 PM    

The Zen of CSS Design. [Dave Shea's mezzoblue] This will be a great book.  I only wish more designers would pay attention to using CSS for design and layout.
4:59:18 PM    

Microsoft Issues 10 Fixes on Busy Patch Day. A "cumulative security update" plugs eight holes in the Internet Explorer browser, while other patches address "critical" vulnerabilities in the Windows shell, in SMTP and elsewhere. [eWEEK Technology News]
4:53:21 PM    

Redesign Cripples Paypal Service. Problems implementing a site redesign have hampered operations of the Paypal service, halting some payment processing for eBay auctions and web merchants. [Netcraft]

Oops.  You'd like to think that site design and backend performance are two disctinctly seperate issues.  Alas, that is not the case.  I have had occasion to make changes to CSS that prevented a site from functioning, although it looked pretty.  Just yesterday, I added a simple rewrite rule to Apache that broke the layout and prevented forms from functioning properly on the CALI website.  I feel their pain.


12:08:58 PM    

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