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Kayodeok's Headlines for March 2004

Wednesday 31 March 2004

Privacy

• Passport Safety, Privacy Face Off

Web Development

• PHP and Apache 2.0
• Trailblazer: Making A Better Browser History via Slashdot
• Firefox Wallpaper

Windows News

• Executive Email: Microsoft Progress Report on Security via Kase

Tips

• Windows Server Hacks: Resetting User Passwords
• OpenOffice.org Off-the-Wall: Style Is Everything, Right?

Programming

• Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know via Delicious
• Vim for Perl developers via Delicious
• PHP Template Engines?

Tuesday 30 March 2004

Security

• Human Nature vs. Security

Privacy

• Concern over biometric passports

Web Development

• How to make Firefox or Firebird use the new personalised google
• Firefox : FAQs : Uninstall Extensions

Programming

• Regular Expressions PHP Tutorial
• Rampaging Computer Science

Monday 29 March 2004

Security

• Online Security: Who's Liable?
• Patching vs. Intrusion Prevention

Web Development

• http is deprecated via Paranoid Fish
• The Passivator via Simon Willison

Web Design

• Flexible floats 3
• Spooky Girlfriend: Table-less XHTML and CSS Generator via CSS Vault

Commentaries

• Dump Internet Explorer

Open Source

• OpenOffice 1.1.1 Released
• How To Set Up Printing On Knoppix

Programming

• Understanding Object Oriented Programming via Delicious
• Unicode-processing issues in Perl and how to cope with it via Delicious
• Implement Bayesian inference using PHP, Part 1
• Why Do Java Developers Like to Make Things So Hard? via RC3
• Why I Am Not A Java Programmer via Delicious

Sunday 28 March 2004

Security

• Anatomy Of A Phishing Trojan
• Auditing the mind of a hacker

Utilities

• DiamondCS Freeware Console Tools For Windows
• The World Clock - Time Zones

Programming

• The Craft of Text Editing or Emacs for the Modern World via Delicious
• A quick guide to writing scripts using the bash shell via Delicious

Saturday 27 March 2004

Web Development

• Firesomething: Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name via Slashdot
• MSN shows 'Blogbot' via 15mb of Fame
• HTTP 101 via Simon Willison's Blogmarks

Web Design

• Flexible floats 2
• Sample Chapter on Selectors from Cascading StyleSheets: The Definitive Guide via dezwozhere
• A List Apart: The Table Ruler
• A List Apart: CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree

Commentaries

• Witty Worm: It's only going to get worse
• Microsoft displays fear, uncertainty, and doubt toward OpenOffice.org

Programming

• The Slate Programming Language
• Object-Oriented Perl via Delicious
• Common Programming Mistakes via Delicious
• Top 21 PHP progamming mistakes - Part I: Seven Textbook Mistakes
• Top 21 PHP Programming Mistakes - Part 2: Seven Serious Mistakes
• Top 21 PHP Programming Mistakes - Part 3: Seven Deadly Mistakes

Friday 26 March 2004

Security

• Security Patches by Modem? Forget it!
• Port scanning and Nmap 3.5
• Top Ten Tips to Make Attacker's Lives Hell
• Gone Phishing: Scammers discover new tactic

Web Development

• Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School via RC3

Web Design

• Accessible, stylish form layout
• Flexible floats

Commentaries

• What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft?
• Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look

Programming

• HTML::Template for Web Designers
• How to be a Programmer via Delicious
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic via Delicious
• Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days via Delicious
• Rethinking Templates in PHP via Delicious
• Making Dictionaries with Perl
• Template engines:- PHP's biggest joke

Wednesday 24 March 2004

Web Development

• Ouch! Asa Dotzler's day out with IE6
• Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells

Web Design

• CSS Templates via Dunstan's Blogmarks
• Creating Structured Tables via Dunstan's Blogmarks

Programming

• PostgreSQL and MySQL Connection Times via Jeremy Zawodny's Linkblog

Tuesday 23 March 2004

Security

• Port Knocking: Good Guys and Bad Guys Are Using This Method To Open Ports
• IT Security at Microsoft Overview
• How to forge an S/MIME signature

Web Development

• Opera to give its browser a voice
• TypeKey and Movable Type Comment Registration FAQ via Anil Dashes' Daily Links
• Why RSS Is Everywhere

Commentaries

• A History of Every GUI Ever

Open Source

• Linux bootup in just a sec

Monday 22 March 2004

Security

• Using the Windows Firewall INF File in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Forensic Analysis of a Live Linux System, Part One

Commentary

• Blaming the User is Rude

Tips

• How to help someone use a computer via Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog

Programming

• Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
• SQLite Introduction
• SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine

Sunday 21 March 2004

Security

• 'Witty' Worm Wrecks Computers

Web Development

• Firefox fills the IE void
• iecapture via Two Tall Socks

Utilities

• Cool Penguin Wallpaper via Forever Geek

Programming

• Exact String Matching Algorithms via Delicious
• Epigrams on Programming via Delicious
• Zend PHP 5 Goodies

Culture

• 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English via MetaFilter
• The ly detector

Saturday 20 March 2004

Security

• Handbook of Information Security Management via Root Secure
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Security Information for Developers

Web Development

• How an XSLT processor works
• Magpie 3.1 for Firefox 0.8 is out

Web Design

• CSS: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
• Hi-Fi Design with CSS
• Doug Bowman's SxSW CSS Presentations via dezwozhere
• CSS Diagrams via Simon Willison's Blogmarks

Windows News

• Windows XP Service Pack 2: Technical Preview Program
• AMD announces antivirus chip

Commentary

• Why do people give up weblogs? via Mark Pilgrim
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1 Review

Programming

• Techniques for Securing Private Objects in Your Applications
• XML in PHP 5 - What's New? via Delicious
• Tidying up your HTML with PHP 5 via Delicious

Friday 19 March 2004

Web Development

• Firefox User Agent Switcher

Windows News

• Microsoft Releases Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 1
• Microsoft aims to save users from themselves in XP update
• Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer Sample Scripts
• WinFS 101: Introducing the New Windows File System

Utilities

• Your Trekkie Communicator Is Ready via flex-mx

Programming

• Perl 5.9.1 released
• PHP 5 Release Candidate 1
• Security: MySQL and PHP
• How to Interview a Programmer via Delicious
• Using MySQL from PHP Part 1
• Using MySQL from PHP Part 2
• Database Templates with MySQL
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures via Delicious
• Perl 6: Operator Renaming
• InnoDB: Reference Manual - Transactions, Foreign Keys, and Hot Backup for MySQL via Delicious

Wednesday 17 March 2004

Security

• Security 'slows down' Microsoft schedule
• Windows Error Reporting Under the Covers

Web Development

• 5k Chess: A chess Game in under 5 kilobytes via Keith Devens
• Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs

Programming

• Getting Started with PEAR - PHP's Low Hanging Fruit
• Lazy PHP: Part 1
• Lazy PHP: Part 2
• Thinking In Perl

Tuesday 16 March 2004

Security

• Why firewalls aren't always enough
• Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe)
• Learn (almost) anything about anybody

Search Engines

• Cookin' With Google

Web Development

• Honey, I Shrunk the URL

Programming

• Running PHP 4 and PHP 5 Concurrently via PHP Developer
• Lean Programming
• Dive Into Python: Regular Expressions
• Perl Vs PHP

Sunday 14 March 2004

Web Development

• Change Mozilla's User Agent
• Mighty Atom: Really Similar Syndication?

Windows News

• Longhorn...coming soon... via Adam Kinney

Commentaries

• Sorry Microsoft, but Outlook 2003 doesn't make the cut

Utilities

• The Visual Thesaurus Via Typographica
• Point WinCheat at the Windows control of your choice, and it gives you all of the information that you could ever want about it

Programming

• MySQL Gotchas
• Ten MySQL Best Practices
• Regular expressions in Perl

Friday 12 March 2004

Web Development

• The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev via WASP

Windows News

• Microsoft rethinks latest security patch

Commentaries

• The Future of Computing Part 7: Conscious Machines?

Tips

• Windows Server 2003 Troubleshooting Stop Errors

Programming

• The Programmer's Stone
• PDF-o-matic: A PHP script that uses HTMLDOC to convert a web page to PDF
• 101 Visual Basic and C# Code Samples
• Are libraries the new languages?
• Database normalization simplified? via Better Living Through Software
• The Many Dates and Times of Perl
• Simple IO Handling with IO::All
• Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development?
• Naming Classes - Do It Once And Do It Right
• Securing PHP: Step-by-step
• Securing Apache: Step-by-Step
• Securing MySQL: step-by-step
• Optimizing C and C++ Code

Wednesday 10 March 2004

Security

• Phishing Scams Incorporate SSL Certificates
• MSN Messenger flaw allows hard-drive access

Web Development

• How To Beat Google's 'Brandy' Update
• Cost-Effective Website Acceleration
• IE hack could benefit from centralization
• CSS Problem-Solving

Windows News

• Analysis of Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 via Jeremy Zawodny's Linkblog
• Microsoft Ship Dates Falling Like Dominoes

Culture

• With This Rig, I Do Thee Wed

Tuesday 09 March 2004

Web Development

• Welcome back to 1996
• Feel the power of UTF-8

Syndication

• Technology Feeds from Yahoo via Scripting News
• Sun and Java RSS Feeds via Robert Scoble
• Borland RSS Feeds via Robert Scoble

Programming

• Perl Design Patterns Wiki
• PHP Application Security via Harry Fuecks
• The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?
• Back to Basics
• An Evaluation of Stored Procedures for the .NET Developer

Monday 08 March 2004

Security

• Choosing and Protecting Passwords via Joat Blog

Utilities

• Bug Me Not via Keith Devens

Programming

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing
• Dictionary of Programming Languages
• Perl Of Wisdom
• Regular Expression Mastery

Sunday 07 March 2004

Security

• A peek at script kiddie culture
• IIS 6.0 Security

Search Engines

• Toggle New Google Look with a Bookmarklet via Google Weblog

Web Development

• The Next Generation of mail clients via Tony Bowden
• Fixing IE

Web Design

• A List Apart: Zebra Tables
• A List Apart: CSS Sprites: Image Slicing's Kiss of Death
• Non-link element hovering in MSIE

Blogging

• Blog Epidemic Analyzer FAQ via Scripting News
• Attribution

Windows News

• Microsoft TechNet Website Redesigned via ActiveWin
• Windows Server to Get 'Reloaded' Treatment, Too

Commentaries

• A History of Apple's Operating Systems

Open Source

• Building a Large Linux Knowledgebase

Tips

• Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility via Bink.nu

Programming

• Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial
• Web Client Programming with Perl
• Why no 'use strict' in Python? Answer: PyChecker
• MySQL Tips and Thoughts
• A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting via Forever Geek
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide via Forever Geek
• The world's two worst variable names

Thursday 04 March 2004

Security

• E-mail users caught in virus feud

Web Development

• Internet Explorer 7
• Real World Style: hanging punctuation

Syndication

• Amazon.com Syndicated Content

Commentaries

• What "XP Reloaded" Means for Longhorn
• The Future of Computing Part 6: Replacements

Open Source

• Boot Knoppix Linux, Keep Windows Installation

Programming

• What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts
• The Tao Of Programming
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• Tcl for Web Nerds
• Notes on PHP Session Security
• Two dozen questions to get you started in PERL

Tuesday 02 March 2004

Web Development

• DocBook Open Repository Project
• Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC)

Commentaries

• The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story
• The coming of Windows XP SP2

Programming

• BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO
• Shell Corner

Monday 01 March 2004

Windows News

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Beta Screenshots
• Microsoft is preparing updates to its programming tools that will be released in tandem with Windows XP Service Pack 2

Programming

• PHP: High Performance Practices
• Unicode Regular Expressions via Show Us Your Regex