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WinFX and Vista Beta 1 Available

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:05:08 GMT

John Montgomery: The new MSDN Windows Vista Longhorn Developer Center is live, including pointers to the download for the WinFX Runtime Components Beta 1 (formerly code-named the ‘Microsoft® Pre-Release Software Code Named “Avalon” and “Indigo” Beta1 RC.’)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista

Google Code Jam 2005

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:26:46 GMT

Google: The Google Code Jam 2005 is now offering the best coders in the world a chance to compete for $155,000!

topcoder.com

REST death march continues on

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:59:10 GMT

Paul Krill: Indigo removes the reliance on Web servers by extending beyond HTTP to support protocols such as SMTP, TCP, and REST (Representational State Transfer).

Ryan Tomayko: Extending HTTP to “support REST”.

Randy: I assume this is how the REST architecture guys intend to win the war. Paul states that Indigo is extending beyond HTTP to other protocols and Ryan twists the words into a ridiculous statement, extending HTTP to support REST. Nice try Ryan!

Hacks work today!

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:20:18 GMT

Hacks...

<?php
$html = file_get_contents('http://stockquotes.com/MSFT.html');
if ( preg_match('/<big>(.*)<\/big>/',$html, $matches) ) {
echo "Stock price is: {$matches[1]}<br>";
}

...work today, but not tomorrow.

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/07/22/REST-vs-API

The above is an example of a REST application. It's easy and works reliably for at least a few hours.

C# interview question

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:44:48 GMT

I found this Channel 9 thread very interesting. First I thought the trickiness of this trick interview question doesn't help filter the good programmers from the bad. The truth is that a simple compile will show any developer that the code doesn't compile. You don't need a PHD to figure this out. On the other hand, a genius could easily be tricked by his eyes and not see the compile error.

But then reading the answers, I realized that most people will make up obviously incorrect answers. That's a pretty good filter. If you answered "you can't write out integer values" like Steve411, then you might as well cut the interview short.

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=90701#90701

Firefox 2.0/3.0 Roadmap

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:22:17 GMT

Mozilla: We are planning for a Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.5 (September 2005), 2.0 (unscheduled) and 3.0 (unscheduled).

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html

DotNetNuke w/ NewBlog

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:32:51 GMT

Midspot: Randy thinks my blogging software is "psycho cool"!

http://midspot.com/Blog/tabid/87/EntryID/539/Default.aspx

Microsoft Windows Vista

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:21:15 GMT

As you might already know, the OS code-named Longhorn, is now official called Vista. Chris Pirillo has a few alternate suggestions...

Windows XPurgated
Windows Washed
Windows Finkel & Einhorn
iWindows
Windows Doors
Windows Vigoda
Windows Lemon-scented
Windows Pro Plus Bonus Prefecture
Windows WTF
Windows 360
Windows Scoble
Windows FoxFire
Windows Padme
Windows 6.022^23
Windows BetterThanLinux

http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/21/1061058.html

Randy: PC Doctor points us to the press release, which includes an (non-enclosure) video of the announcement.

The Fold n' Drop

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:45:09 GMT

Fold n' Drop is a new interaction technique for seamlessly dragging and dropping between overlapping windows. It allows you to fold windows while dragging objects (watch the video).

http://liihs.irit.fr/dragice/foldndrop/

Randy: F---ing cool! I think the Videos have been temporarily DoSed.

Yuck!

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:55:05 GMT

Java SOAP client

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:09:37 GMT

I was looking for a Java SOAP client and stumbled onto this. Bookmarked for later viewer when the janitor pulls the vacuum out of the server.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-soapcl/

Firefox Search Bar

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:03:44 GMT

mozdev: Advanced Mozilla-Search provides the ability to search multiple search engines at once and to sort through the results. It is very powerful.

http://searchsidebar.mozdev.org/

WHATWG editing

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:45:43 GMT

Anne van Kesteren: I'm currently editing a part of the HTML 5 specification. The editing part.

http://annevankesteren.nl/projects/whatwg/spec

Randy: This is big! Big like RSS! Bringing edit mode to the Web.

MiddleWorld Menu

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:03:31 GMT

Everyonce in awhile, I stumble upon this, the first piece of software I ever wrote.

http://www.funet.fi/index/msdos/windows/util/mwmenu3e.zip

The 19 deadly sins of software security

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:48:36 GMT

The book is carved up into 19 chapters, or Sins, and each is only 10-15pp long. The Sins are:

Buffer Overflows
Format String problems
SQL injection
Command injection
Failure to handle errors
Cross-site scripting
Failing to protect network traffic
Use of "magic" URLs and hidden forms
Improper use of SSL
Use of weak password-based systems
Failing to store and protect data
Information leakage
Improper file access
Integer range errors
Trusting network address information
Signal race conditions
Unauthenticated key exchange
Failing to use cryptographically strong random numbers
Poor usability

Learn to Code

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:39:30 GMT

I just read a particularly funny fragment of Java code, which I must share with you. This Java method uses three different techniques for if blocks; end-of-line, start-of-next-line and none.

if (x) {
do();
}

if (x)
{
do();
}

if (x)
do();

Sometimes, the author indents variables one tab from the previous start bracket, sometimes he doesn't indent variables.

{
MyClass o;
}

Sometimes, he break lines into smaller lines just before the opening braces of a method and sometimes he break lines just after the opening brace of a method.

o.do
("this and that of a long parameter list");

o.do(
"this and that of a long parameter list");

He line break between the throw and exception class in some exception specifications, but not in others. Last, his comments are extremely verbose and obvious. Can you image how hard this is to read? My own coding style is very exact. I even delete extra spaces that popup on the end of lines.

Java One

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:40:48 GMT

A co-worker attended Java One. He said IBM was no-where to be found and that the most popular exhibit was M$FT where they were giving out betas of VS.NET 2005.

PHP + XML-RPC

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:36:51 GMT

Netcraft: Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and content management programs can be exploited through a security hole in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. [cut] The affected libraries, including PHPXMLRPC and Pear XML-RPC, are included in many interactive applications written in PHP. [cut] By creating an XML file that uses single quotes to escape into the eval() call an attacker can easily execute php code on the target server.

Should Open Source be Regulated?

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:49:09 GMT

Payton Byrd: How many programmers are putting in 40+ hours per week of their "free time" to a project that will never pay them a penny, but will net IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, or Novell millions?

Trackback Test

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 04:45:26 GMT

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