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Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 25th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Bookmarks for February 4th through February 6th

February 7, 2009

Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else – (37signals) – "So bottom line: Copying hurts you. You miss out on what makes something good. Instead, try to be exposed to a variety of perspectives and points of view. Take whatever you find useful and leave the rest behind. Fill in the gaps with your [...]

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Bookmarks for January 15th through January 19th

January 20, 2009

git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru – Tip site for git from the makers of GitHub.
InfoQ: Pair Programming vs. Code Review – "Theodore Nguyen-Cao described code reviewers as chickens, and paired programmers as pigs."
Coding Horror: Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly – "So I have this friend. I've told him time and [...]

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Bookmarks for January 3rd through January 7th

January 7, 2009

Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”."
has_many :through – Agile [...]

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Bookmarks for December 23rd through January 3rd

January 3, 2009

Linux in 2009: Recession vs. GNU – "The general agreement among experts is that not only is FOSS well-equipped to face the recession of 2009, but that those who adopt it will be better off when the hard times are over."
SBC-DSL + router = dropped connections – dslreports.com – Post around DSL connection drops – [...]

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Bookmarks for November 14th through November 16th

November 16, 2008

Featured Windows Download: ISODisk Mounts up to Twenty Disk Images – ISODisk is a free application which allows you to mount a disk image and browse it like a regular drive.
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities – "I am sharing [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th through October 27th

October 27, 2008

Contributing to Rails: Step-by-Step « A Fresh Cup – "There are a few guides floating around about how to contribute your own code to Rails. But none of them (or at least none of the ones that I found) walk you through every step of the way. So, here’s an attempt to fill that gap." [...]

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Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

October 9, 2008

Infoworld: Open source CMSes prove well worth the price – " We look at five free offerings boasting solid Web publishing features that challenge their commercial competitors"
Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X – Mac HTML Editor recommended by collegue.
Mac GNU Privacy Guard – "Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG [...]

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Bookmarks for September 5th through September 9th

September 9, 2008

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte – FLOSS Weekly – Podcast by Leo Laporte where he and his partner interview open source authors and companies. I've found this podcast extremely informative.
Suspekt… » Blog Archive » MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities – "While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems [...]

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Bookmarks for September 3rd

September 3, 2008

Shalla Secure Services – "Shalla's Blacklists is a collection of URL lists grouped into several categories intended for the usage with URL filters like SquidGuard or Dansguardian. But the usage is not limited to this. Some people use the lists to include them (that is parts of them) into their Squid installation without using a [...]

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Bookmarks for August 22nd through September 2nd

September 3, 2008

37signals Product Blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch, and stay lean – "Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software and GitHub is "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration." GitHub's Chris Wanstrath wrote to tell [...]

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Wordpress 2.3.2 Available – Security Fix

December 30, 2007

Wordpress 2.3.2 is now available. This release includes some security fixes that should necessitate an upgrade immediately. Details on the release are here. Download 2.3.2 now.

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links for 2007-06-07

June 6, 2007

CTX106631 – How to Use OpenSSL to Convert Certificates
x509 –in input.crt –inform DER –out output.crt –outform PEM
(tags: ssl certificates security)

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Wordpress 2.1.3 released.

April 5, 2007

Version 2.1.3 of the Wordpress blogging platform has been released and is available for download. According to the Wordpress blog, this is a security release that “includes fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems”.
I’ve upgraded, [...]

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Wordpress 2.0.5 Released

October 28, 2006

The folks on the Wordpress team have released version 2.0.5 of the Wordpress Blogging Application. This release includes around 50 bug fixes one of which was a missing index on the posts table. I just upgraded and the site performs much better now. I had always thought that [...]

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Death By Google Calendar

September 5, 2006

I found a good article today talking about how much information one can give away just by having your Google Calendar public and outlining some not so nice ways that this information can be utilized.

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Are MP3 Players becoming a security risk to corporations?

January 26, 2006

Are MP3 players becoming the biggest corporate security risk due to the large amount of data they can store now?

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Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are

November 8, 2005

Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are – Techdirt

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Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

November 2, 2005

Heard about this one on GeekNewsCentral yesterday (Episode 113). Marks Sysinternals Blog has an article called Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far. You have to read it to believe it.

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