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Web App Vulnerabilities Over Buffer Overflows
This should be an eye opener to many. In September Mitre reported that web application vulnerabilities are claiming the top three spots on their CVE request list, beating out Buffer Overflows. 1. Cross...
View ArticleFlash’s crossdomain.xml Dangers
PHP security guru Chris Shiflett has a great post about the dangers of Cross Domain Flash. If you have implemented a crossdomain.xml file you will want to read his post. If you have a crossdomain.xml...
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Google Checkout Free For Holiday Season
I just got an email from Google stating that Google Checkout transactions will be free until the end of the year: “From November 8 through December 31, 2006, we’ll process all of your Checkout...
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The 15 Commands Essential for Unix
Learning UNIX is a seemingly daunting task, there are thousands of commands out there, each with hundreds of options. But in reality you only need to know a few of them. I use unix quite a bit, usually...
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Interview with CSS Cookbook Author
I recently had a chance to conduct an interview with Christopher Schmitt, author of the CSS Cookbook from O’Reilly, among other books. Chris recently released a second edition of the CSS Cookbook which...
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Building Server Side AJAX Suggestions with script.aculo.us
I’m a big fan of the script.aculo.us javascript library. I have been using some of the effects on a dashboard console for one of my clients, it has been quite nice to work with, and has really helped...
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MySQL Optimization Tips
Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn’t. To satisfy your cravings MySQL has several keywords that can be placed in your SQL statement to give the database server an explicit...
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Howto Backup your Mac incrementally over SSH
Do you have access to a shell account on a unix server with some spare space? If so it’s pretty easy to incrementally backup your files securely with SSH. I titled this entry Howto Backup your Mac...
View ArticleMySQL – Storage Engine for Amazon S3
I got an email today from O’Reilly today about the MySQL Conference (coming up at the end in April), it looks like a pretty good conference, but one of the sessions caught my eye. It was called A...
View ArticleiTunes Podcast RSS Enclosure URL Encoding
I am working on publishing a podcast in iTunes for one of my clients. From what I have read on various blogs iTunes can be very picky, so I thought I would post this for anyone else having this...
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