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The 14th post
Because 13 is not a nice number :), and because the submission deadline for the two contests has passed, I thought I share with you my solutions (they are not guaranteed to be complete over correct for that matter): The Hitch-Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy How did Zay Zeutrino gather the desired data to switch…
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100th post & various short stories
Incredible, isn’t it? This is the 100th post! Also a curious thing: in both October an November I had 39 posts (I didn’t plan it and didn’t observe it until I moved over to the beta Blogger and started tinkering with the customization of my blog). What follows are some small bits of information: A…
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An (almost) Christmas present
Hello all! After listening to the latest episode of the Hanselminutes podcast (Life Hacks with Gina Trapani), I thought I make a little gift for all of you Hanselminutes friends (a great podcast by the way – if you didn’t listen to it, you should try it): a bookmarklet to highlight certain keywords on the…
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10 Immutable Laws of Security
From Microsoft: 10 Immutable Laws of Security. A very nice and correct writeup.
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Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security
Via Ajaxian: Myth-Busting AJAX (In)security
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On user interfaces
You encounter things that you can call user interfaces in many parts of the day to day life. In this post I’ll talk about the interfaces of Romanian ATM machines. If you are not from here, feel free to skip this post as it probably won’t be of interest to you. A little background for…
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What you don’t need javascript for
With all this Web 2.0 craze people start assuming that we all have javascript. I have a message for those people: you can have forms without javascript. I know that all those fading and stuff is cool, but if you use the standards more people can use it. Example (I don’t mean to pick on…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #68
Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Again, this episode was mostly technically correct (as far as I observed), there are only a couple of things I would like to comment on: ReadyBoost has nothing to do with booting. Is simply uses the flash drive (while running) to store the page file,…
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20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration
A nice writeup about securing your Apache installation: 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration