Published Work

Published Work

Written work I've published elsewhere - not including Wired and VentureBeat

281 posts
Published Work

Does Moore’s Law still hold true?

You don’t have to be a software programmer to be familiar with the principle. Since the early 1970s, Moore’s Law — named after Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel — has been universally touted within the computing industry. The law has many variants, but the gist of it is this: Computing powe
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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False Alarms on the Firewall

How can you separate a legitimate security threat from routine traffic? A recently upgraded software product can help. Computer security experts are fond of reminding people just how vulnerable their defenses really are. And for good reason: No security system, no matter how comprehensive or well-de
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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Still Waiting for the Web Services Miracle

They haven’t changed the world yet, but there are ways to make them work. If you flip though the technology magazines of a year ago, you’ll likely find a lot of stories touting Web services as the next big new technology you need to know about. The promise: programming standards that would allow dif
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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The Santa Slam

The holiday rush is coming, and as usual, many sites won’t be able to handle the traffic. Here’s how you can prepare for this year, and beyond. It happens every December. The holiday season brings with it hordes of online shoppers, and — despite having months to prepare — many websites aren’t able t
Dylan Tweney 4 min read
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Hollywood vs. Your PC

Movie and music moguls are hopping mad over the new technologies that are transforming digital entertainment. Washington is listening. What’s at risk? Your ability to enjoy DVDs and CDs you’ve bought, your privacy–even your control over your PC. Dylan F. Tweney From the November 2002 issue of PC Wor
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The Death of the $1 Million Software Package

Prices for big corporate systems have come back down from the stratosphere, but that doesn’t mean you need to buy. Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face that his company’s enterprise system would cost you $1 million. Mercifully, those days
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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Are You Overpaying for Content Management?

Companies are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on software to manage their websites and other documents — and getting dubious returns. There’s got to be a better way. The numbers aren’t pretty. According to a Jupiter survey of chief information officers at companies with more than $50 milli
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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Who’s on Your Network?

Intrusion detection systems can work, but they require time and moneyBY D.F. TWENEY ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY is asking for trouble. The school is in the midst of a major network upgrade that will eventually bring gigabit-speed network capacity to every dorm room and office on campus—making the netw
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Understanding weblogs

I’ve been spending the past several weeks messing around with weblogs. I’ve written about the topic of weblogs before [1,2] and last week’s column for Business 2.0 was about the business uses of “blogging” for content and project management [3]. But last week, a few light bulbs went on. My own web s
Dylan Tweney 5 min read
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Blogging for Dollars

Businesses are starting to use weblogs — those impromptu lists-cum-journals — as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications. Businesspeople might be forgiven for rolling their eyeballs when the word “weblog” is mentioned. After all, most media coverage to date has focused on weblogs
Dylan Tweney 3 min read
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Carte Blanche for Hackers

Some recently proposed legislation could open up computer networks to vigilante-style justice. There’s never been a better time to be a hacker. Twice last week, Bush administration officials reached out to the hacker community, asking attendees at two different Las Vegas conferences to be responsibl
Dylan Tweney 3 min read

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