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Linkto: Rushi’s Weblog Client Review

by mitch on April 18, 2006 in Asides, Blog Stuff, Geekery, Links, MovableType, WordPress

Rushi quickly reviews a couple of weblog clients, or “blog editors”.

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Cross-site Scripting Techniques and Prevention

by mitch on April 18, 2006 in Ajax, Geekery, JavaScript, Web 2.0, Web Design

ALA serves up a great article addressing the dangers of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Author Niklas Bivald says, Validating and sanitizing user input is no longer optional. Consider what your users really need to do, think about what characters they need to accomplish those tasks, and strip/convert as necessary to protect your community. Part 1 [...]

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Bite Size Standards

by mitch on April 14, 2006 in Geekery, Web Design

Bite Size Standards went online today, offering web development tutorials, tips, etc. In their own words: The basic idea being that busy web designers don’t always have time to read or write lengthy tutorials but that a daily “bite” of useful information, taken or given, could be good for the soul. Sounds promising. Hat tip [...]

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Windows Defender Stops Internet Explorer from Downloading

by mitch on April 14, 2006 in Geekery

Although Firefox is my primary browser, there are still occasions when I find myself using Internet Explorer for one reason or another. Recently, while using IE, I attempted to download a file to my desktop. After selecting Save and choosing my desktop folder as the target, the download started. When the download window closed I [...]

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MS Security Bulletin Breaks Internet Explorer

by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Geekery

Microsoft security update MS06-015 appears to break IE. The newsgroups are peppered with posts complaining that typing a URL without a prefix like http:// into the IE address bar, or dropping down the address bar to select a URL from your history causes IE to hang. Others report problems with Office applications, including an inability [...]

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Portland Goes MetroFi

by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Asides, Geekery, Portland, Talk

Om Malik reports Portland Goes Wi-Fi. MetroFi has been selected by the City of Portland, for building and operating a citywide Wi-Fi network. In the press here, and here.

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Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released

by mitch on April 13, 2006 in Asides, Geekery

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 Released. Here’s what’s new: Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets. Improvements to product stability. Several security fixes. Download here.

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Back Up del.icio.us Bookmarks

by mitch on April 11, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Geekery, WordPress

Lifehacker shows you how to back up del.icio.us bookmarks on your blog. As the article points out, aside from backups, there are other benefits to doing this: It also kills two birds with one stone: participate in the del.icio.us community AND update your blog daily with one del.icio.us post. This is a “no-hassle” solution done [...]

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Using Amazon S3 to Serve Static Content

by mitch on April 11, 2006 in Geekery

Adrian Holovaty explains how he’s using Amazon S3 to serve media files. I’m not entirely sure that this constitutes best use of S3, but this article is certainly worth reading if you are interested in a simple example using Python and the S3 API.

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More Ajax Resources for Beginners

by mitch on April 10, 2006 in Ajax, Geekery, JavaScript, Links, Web 2.0

When I first became involved in a project that would require Ajax techniques, I quickly went to the web in search of tutorials to learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object. Following are the resources I found most helpful as I learned to create dynamic web applications. Links to various JavaScript libraries and other sites [...]

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