Michael Morris

How To: Help Stop Internet Spam

by Michael Morris April 30, 2010

Internet spam is one of the hardest forms of malicious content to stop from being pushed upon users. Spam comes in various formats. The most prevalent of which is E-Mail spam which accounts for 200 billion messages a day. It also is posted on communities such as message boards and within the comment sections of [...]

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Challenge to iPhone Developers

by Michael Morris April 5, 2010

When it comes to developing applications for mobile devices every pixel counts. For the past several weeks BestTechie has been working on two applications. One for the iPhone and the other for the iPad. Both share similar functionality, but the iPad version definitely has one distinct advantage. That advantage is its significantly larger screen resolution [...]

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We Need to Fix the Problems With Email Security

by Michael Morris March 19, 2010

It is no secret that since the beginning of the use of E-Mail there has always been people with malicious intentions seeking to take advantage of users with no technical background by sending them messages containing malware and scams of all kinds. Recently, McAfee alerted users to an E-Mail that has been circulating posing as [...]

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HTML 5 vs Adobe Flash

by Michael Morris February 8, 2010

HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is the primary markup language used worldwide by developers to structure the flow of content on websites. HTML consists of several “tags” with branching attributes to help web browsers better understand how to render web pages. The current standard, HTML 4.01, is managed by the World Wide [...]

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Facebook Introduces HipHop for PHP

by Michael Morris February 2, 2010

Facebook is a very large and complex content driven website. Like many other large websites, resource management is key to Facebook. Not only does it keep down CPU load and memory usage on their vast array of servers, but it is also used to ensure a fast load for every user that browses the website. [...]

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Slicehost: Customer Satisfaction Story

by Michael Morris January 19, 2010

Slicehost, which was acquired by Rackspace several months ago, is an excellent company that provides Virtual Private Servers (VPS). These virtual servers provide the owner unrestricted access for both application and web development. As a customer of them for several years I have had many conversations with the Slicehost support staff, and every time I [...]

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Facebook Connect: Login’s Made Easy

by Michael Morris January 5, 2010

Facebook Connect integration on websites as a login method is becoming more and more popular everyday. With a large user base ranging in the millions, Facebook offers a great median for websites who want to provide interactive content while also requiring a form of identification without forcing a user to keep track of multiple user [...]

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Internet Explorer: A Burden to Web Designers

by Michael Morris December 29, 2009

The use of Internet Explorer by Internet users has always been a burden on the web design community. With the expansion of Web 2.0 technologies such as feature rich CSS based designs and JavaScript ran websites, this browser that controls nearly half the market share for web browsers can no longer be ignored. While Microsoft has [...]

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