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Kayodeok's Headlines for February 2004

Sunday 29 February 2004

Web Development

• Gary Panter's FeedDemon Illustration
• Mozilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Reported and Fixed

Web Design

• Box Lessons via CSS Vault
• Styling Form Fields via CSS Vault

Programming

• The Art of Unix Programming
• How to be a Programmer
• Why Python?
• Instant Hacking
• Content Management Design via Forever Geek
• Programming in Emacs Lisp
• FindStr.exe - an egrep-like tool
• How to Use Findstr

Saturday 28 February 2004

Privacy

• New Google Toolbar Includes Auto Updater
• Caller ID for E-Mail Technical Specification: The Next Step to Deterring Spam

Web Development

• DOM Inspector for Internet Explorer
• ieHTTPHeaders: HTTP Header viewer for Internet Explorer

Syndication

• Find that Feed
• Blogrolling acquired by TUCOWS via Nick Bradbury

Commentaries

• If Microsoft Had Written Nmap
• Windows XP: Something's Got to Give

Programming

• How To Become A Hacker via Forever Geek
• Regex for URLs via Forever Geek
• Exegesis 7: How Formatting will work in Perl 6
• Object Oriented COBOL via Forever Geek
• COBOL programming - tutorials, lectures, exercises, examples via Forever Geek

Friday 27 February 2004

Security

• Security Guidance Center For Developers and IT Pros
• Welcome to the Windows XP Service Pack 2 Training Course for Developers

Web Design

• CSS Drop Shadows
• CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners Borders Part II
• ABBR and ACRONYM are for user agents not for end users

Syndication

• Open Directory Project - Custom RSS Feeds

Blogging

• Forever Geek

Windows News

• Windows Developers, Users Weigh in on Potential Interim Windows Release

Tips

• How to Dual Boot Windows XP and Fedora or Red Hat Linux
• The Linux Booting Process

Programming

• A Prolog Introduction for Hackers
• C++ Coding Standard
• The Health of Your Site
• Template Engines
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Thursday 26 February 2004

Web Design

• Fun with forms - customized input elements
• Mathematical formulas in HTML 4.0
• Math in HTML (and CSS)

News & Commentaries

• Windows XP ... Reloaded
• Microsoft builds 'vulnerability-aware' Longhorn
• The Future of Computing Part 5: Evolution and the Bump

Wednesday 25 February 2004

Security

• Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner
• Kicking the Tires of XP Service Pack, Part 2
• Gates predicts death of the password
• Win XP SP2: AMD, Microsoft pair up for security
• The restrictions that are available to Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1

Search Engines

• Compare Yahoo and Google Searches via Keith Devens
• The Complete Guide to Googlemania!

Web Development

• XML.Gov
• Cost-Effective Website Acceleration Part 1 - Client Side Optimization
• Side-stepping IE

Syndication

• RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure
• RSS Anonymous

Utilities

• Process Explorer 8.30
• A great new WinZip is out - but do problems loom?

Programming

• Classical Computer Science Texts

Tuesday 24 February 2004

Security

• Microsoft to include antivirus in Windows XP SP2?
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Security Information for Developers
• Microsoft Security Developer Center
• Top 75 Network Security Tools

Web Development

• The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
• FTP, TRACERT and other forgotten conveniences
• Firefox WallPaper

Syndication

• The Commercialization of RSS

Windows News

• Windows XP SP2 Beta Build 2082 Screenshots
• An update for Windows due this year will offer a new 'Windows Security Center'
• Microsoft, RSA Working on Windows Lock

Programming

• (PHP) Generate Excel Sheet
• Debugging
• Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

Monday 23 February 2004

Web Development

• <Link> Navigation Toolbar for Internet Explorer
• MOZiE: Gecko/MSHTML Comparison Tool via CSS Vault
• Compressing your CSS with PHP via CSS Vault

Web Technology

• Configure Web Logs in Apache

Syndication

• Feed Overwhelm

Utilities

• IE plug-in enables secure-document viewing

Programming

• The trouble with Rover is revealed
• Klingon Software Quality Assurance
• Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions

Sunday 22 February 2004

Security

• Trojans as spam robots: the evidence
• Program shields anonymous flaw sleuths
• Kicking the Tires of XP Service Pack 2

Web Development

• Firefox Tips and Tricks
• The Complete History of the Internet & Hacking
• Real World Use of Standards via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Web Technology

• Cooking with Apache
• Cooking with Apache, Part 2
• Cooking with Apache, Part 3

Windows News

• Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Tips

• The Well-Tuned Server, Part 1
• Still Annoyed with Your PC? Fight Back

Programming

• Upgrading a MySQL Application
• SQL Injection Attacks - Are You Safe?
• Creating Secure SQL with SafeSQL

Friday 20 February 2004

Web Development

• World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address
• Helping Your Visitors: a State of Mind
• Designing for Context with CSS

Syndication

• Atom2RSS

Windows News

• Microsoft: No MS Office for Linux

Programming

• Perl Tutorial
• Perl for Text Processing
• The Perl You Need to Know
• Perl in 20 pages
• Perl's Extreme Makeover
• If foxes can learn Ruby, why can't you?
• Using MySQL from PHP
• Using MySQL to Stop Editing Web Pages

Thursday 19 February 2004

Security

• Multiple WinXP kernel vulns can give user mode programs kernel mode privileges

Search Engines

• Why has Yahoo! dumped the Google search?

Web Development

• HTML considered harmful to airport terminals
• Atom in Depth

Commentary

• The Future of Computing Part 4: The Next Dimension

Utilities

• Ocel: Longhorn RSS Aggregator
• Diagnostic Tool for the Microsoft VM 1.0
• Windows XP Security Console Screenshots

Programming

• Beginner's Introduction to Perl

Wednesday 18 February 2004

Security

• Protect Yourself Against Denial-of-Service Attacks
• Visual Spoofing

Search Engines

• Yahoo Becomes an RSS Directory!
• Yahoo! Switches Search Engines
• Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine

Programming

• PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities
• Lazy PHP: Part 1
• Perl, PHP and Sour Grapes?
• Regular Expression Tutorial

Tuesday 17 February 2004

Web Development

• Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send Plain ASCII Text
• Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text

Syndication

• Radek's Newspaper Styles for FeedDemon

Windows News

• MSN bans pop-ups on global sites

Tips

• SQL Server Security FAQ

Programming

• Choosing a Templating System
• PHP Templates? Get Smarty!

Monday 16 February 2004

Security

• SecurityFocus: Exploit based on leaked Windows code released
• Slashdot: Exploit Based On Leaked Windows Code Released

Web Design

• Absolute and Relative Positioning

Programming

• The PHP Anthology Volume 2, Chapter 5 - Caching
• Software Engineering Stories

Sunday 15 February 2004

Security

• A Home User's Security Checklist for Windows
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Vulnerability Identification Weakness

Web Development

• Testing in Safari without a Mac
• Your clients need a Content Management System

Web Technology

• Apache mod_rewrite Primer (Internet)
• Installing PHP on Apache 2

Windows News

• Warning: Microsoft 'Monoculture'
• Statement from Microsoft Regarding Illegal Posting of Windows Source Code

Office News

• Challenger to Microsoft Office is worth cheering for
• IBM to launch MS Office for Linux

Programming

• The Process of Database Refactoring
• Automatic Document Classification With Perl
• Mail to WAP Gateways
• Using Perl to Syntax Color C#
• Using XML with MySQL
• Perthon -- Python to Perl Language Translation

Thursday 12 February 2004

Security

• Nachi variant wipes MyDoom from PCs
• How Microsoft Develops and Releases Software Patches

Web Development

• MySQL Administrator v1.0.1a-Alpha Released
• XML 1.1: The W3C Gets It Wrong

Web Design

• Use of ALT texts in IMGs
• Cross-Browser CSS :focus

Syndication

• Google spurns RSS for rising blog format

Blogging

• Well-designed Weblogs

Wednesay 11 February 2004

Security

• EEye: More Microsoft bugs on the way
• Opera Browser File Download Extension Spoofing

Web Development

• Optimizing Mozilla Firebird via Simon Willison's Blogmarks
• MozillaZine Knowledge Base via blogzilla

Commentary

• The Future of Computing Part 3: Death of the PC

Programming

• Programs that write programs
• Vim for Perl developers
• Tutorials for new features in MySQL 4.0

Tuesday 10 February 2004

Security

• Microsoft lauds IE as 'the most secure browser'
• Windows XP's Big Security Fix
• Microsoft warns consumers about major Windows security flaws
• Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months

Web Development

• Server Side CSS Sniffing - coping with troublesome browsers

Syndication

• Email To RSS In Three Easy Steps via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Blogging

• the mystery of "link free" via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Open Source

• What you need to know to write man pages
• How the Linux Kernel Gets Built

Monday 09 February 2004

Security

• New version of MyDoom appears
• Internet Explorer File Identification Variant

Web Development

• AccessibleNet.org: Web Accessibility Links and Resources

Web Technology

• Synchronize MySQL Data Using SQLyog Job Agent

Commentaries

• The Future of Computing, Part 1
• The Future of Computing Part 2: The Hard Road ahead

Open Source

• Some Information on the upcoming Knoppix 3.4
• How the Open-Source World Plans to Smack Down Microsoft, and Oracle, and ...

Utilities

• Earth Clock

Programming

• Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language

Sunday 08 February 2004

Security

• Basic TCP/IP & Hex Knowledge

Privacy

• Windows Privacy and the Iraq War

Web Development

• Find Text in Firebird without the Find Dialog

Web Design

• Fun with :target demo

Programming

• rot13 implemented in various languages
• Advanced Idiomatic DBI via alpha-geek
• Programming from the Ground Up via Keith Devens
• The C# Design Process: A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg
• How C# Was Made
• A Comparative Overview of C#

Culture

• Holy Bible available as RSS Feeds via scripting.com

Saturday 07 February 2004

Web Development

• Trees in SQL - nested set model
• XSL(T) Tools for XHTML
• False Domain Info May Mean Jail

Web Design

• CSS crib sheets
• A List Apart: Exploring Footers
• A List Apart: JavaScript Image Gallery
• Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts

Commentaries

• Software innovation is dead

Open Source

• System recovery with Knoppix via Digital Media Minute

Tips

• Installing Real One Player (without it taking over your life and computer)
• How to get spyware-free RealPlayer through the BBC

Programming

• Net::Delicious
• A Guide to Writing Portable and Efficient C Programs
• Random Content Rotation Made Easy
• Analyzing Access_log files with mod_log_sql

Friday 06 February 2004

Security

• MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for Windows XP and Windows 2000

Privacy

• How to make spam unstoppable
• Beating Bayesian Filters (Powerpoint)

Web Development

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 via Dive into Mark
• Stay with XML 1.0 via Dive into Mark

Web Design

• The CSS Cookbook

Syndication

• The myth of RSS compatibility
• Atom API Update
• What is RSS?
• Hot Links

Utilities

• Transparent Screen Lock for Win2K/NT/XP

Programming

• Develop rock-solid code in PHP
• Computer Languages History
• MySQL: Building User Interfaces
• Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language

Tuesday 03 February 2004

Web Development

• Firebird 0.8 will be released next Monday (09 February)

Web Design

• Dynamic @import CSS files using PHP
• CSS from the Ground Up
• Everything I Need To Know About Web Design I Learned Watching Oz
• CSS Design: Custom Underlines

Windows News

• Microsoft releases metadata removal tool

Programming

• Another look at PHP and Python
• The PHP Anthology Volume 2, Chapter 1 - Access Control
• XML and Databases via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Sunday 01 February 2004

Security

• MydoomDeleter 1.0

Web Development

• XML Basics and Benefits via WaSP Buzz
• XML Basics, Part II: The Key Concepts via WaSP Buzz
• Another Look at Mozilla

Syndication

• FeedDemon 1.10 BETA 1 for registered customers

Open Source

• GNU Manuals Online

Tips

• Create a task from an email

Utilities

• Doc Scrubber

Programming

• Web Developer Resource - PHP Tutorials
• Zend Code Gallery
• How We Wrote the Template Toolkit Book ...
• ODBTP, connect to Windows databases from any platform
• Paypal, the PHP approach