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BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that existing Yahoo! users can use your services without having to complete yet another registration process.
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Eclipse Ecosystem: Build versus collaborate
Bezos explains this behavior as organizations thinking their infrastructure or platform is part of their “secret sauce”, but quickly get overwhelmed trying to keep current and trying to achieve homogeneity.
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MySQL Performance Blog » What to tune in MySQL Server after installation
Even though you can tune quite a lot of variables in MySQL Servers only few of them are really important for most common workload
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 29, 2006
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Roll your own servers with Netcat – Lifehacker
Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the “network swiss army knife” with good reason. Like the best UNIX utilities, it’s very simple but can perform all sorts of useful tasks.
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 26, 2006
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A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
The cries of frustration I hear from other developers about CSS are only an echo of the ones I made for years. As a result I like to think that I can relate, and I’m writing to convey the most important lessons I’ve learned so far.
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Brennan’s Blog – Blog Archive – Shared Authentication for .NET, Java, PHP, Firefox, Safari, etc
As you look into how InfoCard works, you will see how it benefits from the proven public key encryption which makes SSL work.
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sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand: Defining software architecture roles.
Marty Andrews has written “Defining software architecture roles,” which describes what system architects, solution architects, and enterprise architects’ actual roles are (via TheServerSide)
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 24, 2006
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SecuriTeam – SQL Injection Walkthrough
The following article will try to help beginners with grasping the problems facing them while trying to utilize SQL Injection techniques, to successfully utilize them, and to protect themselves from such attacks.
Essential Software for Windows
You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can’t seem to find it.
I recently bought a new computer and decided to make a list of all the software I installed on the new computer so that I’m ready to do this again for my next machine. I wish I had discovered Belarc Advisor before I rebuilt my old desktop as a Linux (Ubuntu) desktop. So here is a fairly complete list of what’s installed on my machine and if you see something that I should have, please leave me a comment:
The Essentials
- Windows XP Media Center
- Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
- McAfee VirusScan & Personal Firewall
Development
- Java 1.4.x and 1.5.x SDK
- IntelliJ IDEA
- BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and 9.2
- Apache Webserver
- Apache Tomcat 5.5
- Glassfish
- WebLogic Workshop Studio (NitroX M7 based on Eclipse 3.2)
- NetBeans 5.5 Beta
- MySQL 5.0 database server
- MySQL Administrator, MySQL QueryBrowser and MySQL Workbench
- DbVisualizer
- XAMPP (LAMP for Windows – PHP, Perl, Apache, MySQL)
- Aptana – HTML, CSS IDE based on Eclipse
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Ruby for Windows
Audio, Video & Graphics
- Nero 7 Ultra Edition
- Google Picassa
- Paint.NET – Photo manipulation software
- PIXELA ImageMixer for the Sony DVD HandyCam
- iTunes
- RealPlayer
- Microsoft Media Player 10
Browsers & Extensions
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox (List of extensions below)
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
- Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2
- All-In-One Sidebar 0.6.4
- Compact Library Extension Organizer (CLEO) 1.0
- Copy All Urls 0.6.2
- del.icio.us 1.1
- DOM Inspector 1.8.0.7
- Download Statusbar 0.9.4.1
- FireBug 0.4
- Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 3.0
- Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.2
- Gmail Skins 0.9.6
- Google Browser Sync 1.2.20060911.3
- Google Send to Phone 0.4
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W
- IE View Lite 1.2.5
- Image Zoom 0.2.7
- InfoLister 0.9e
- Live HTTP Headers 0.12
- PDF Download 0.7.5
- Professor X 0.4
- ScrapBook 1.2.0.4
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5
- Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9
- Tails 0.3.4
- Talkback 1.5.0.7
- TinyUrl Creator 1.0.1
- Update Notifier 0.1.4
- Web Developer 1.0.2
- X-Ray 0.8
- Opera
Utilities
- Ultraedit (I know there are quality free editors out there but I’m just too used to UltraEdit)
- FeedDemon – The BEST RSS reader for Windows
- 7-Zip
- Cygwin – UNIX shell and more for Windows
- Sysinternals (DiskMon, FileMon, Process Explorer, RegMon & pretty much every other utility on that site)
- Putty – SSH client for windows
- WinSCP
- Microsoft Money
- Avvenu – Remote access to your computer
- QuickResNT
- KeePass Password Safe
- Free Download Manager
- Google Earth
- Google Talk
- Yahoo Messenger
- MSN Messenger
- Jungle Disk
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware
- Flickr Uploadr
- CCleaner
- VNC Server & Client
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- TortoiseSVN – Subversion for Windows
- Auslogics Disk Defrag
- TaskSwitchXP – ALT-TAB manager for Windows
- Windows Live Writer
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Yahoo Widgets
- Skype
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2006
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Geek Smithology – The State of Enterprise Ruby
The real takeaway is that if you truly believe in using the best tool for the job, then you will be using Ruby at some point in the future.
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StorageMojo – Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon’s Datacenter, Pt I
Unlike Goole�s clean sheet approach to creating internet-class infrastructure, Amazon has made every mistake in the book. The original site was one hairball, database, OLTP and web server all on one system
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Google Research Publication: BigTable
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 18, 2006
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HP Media Vault — NAS we go again – Engadget
The HP Media Vault, a run of the mill RAID 0/1 unit coming in either 300GB / $379 (with one empty bay) or 500GB / $549 (with one empty bay) configurations. It’ll also feature gigabit Ethernet, three USB ports, and expandability up to 1.2TB
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Carbonite will automaticlaly backup your PC over the Internet for $5 per month with encryption. Wonder if they are using Amazon S3 under the covers? (via TechCrunch)
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BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise | InfoWorld | News | 2006-09-18 | By Paul F. Roberts
Graffiti, Runner, and Builder will add social bookmarking to BEA’s portals and will give non-IT staff the tools to create blogs, wikis, and other lightweight applications that tap into BEA�s service infrastructure
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 14, 2006
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Spring 2.0 was initially supposed to come out in June/July, why the delay? InfoQ spoke to the Spring team including Rod Johnson, Rob Harrop, Adrian Colyer, and Juergen Holler, to find out what’s happening with the framework and what’s coming up.
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 12, 2006
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Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter have put together an online video and slide presentation along with InfoQ about JRuby.
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In this article, an excerpt from Practical Ajax Projects with Java Technology (Apress, July 2006), Frank W. Zammetti illustrates how to built a chat application
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A federal district court judge ruled yesterday that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind. The ruling was issued in a case brought by the National Federation of the Blind against Target Corp
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Let’s take a look at how one goes about creating these magical extensions for Firefox
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 11, 2006
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Amazon launched their latest offering entitled Unbox Video which is essentially a video (TV shows, movies, etc) download to buy or rent service and it’s more of the same. Nothing new, nothing exciting and nothing worth the download.
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