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Kayodeok's Headlines for April 2004

Friday 30 April 2004

Security

• Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn

Web Development

• A Roadmap to Standards
• Practical XML: Form Validation
• More Reasons to Love Google
• Now That The Other Shoe Has Dropped: An Analysis of the Google SEC Filing

Open Source

• coLinux: Linux for Windows Without Rebooting
• Zap Annoyances on the Web, Part II

Programming

• The Java Tutorial
• Rapid Web Application Deployment with Maypole : Part 2
• The league of dangerous languages

Thursday 29 April 2004

Security

• Your computer stops responding, you cannot log on to Windows, or your CPU usage for the System process approaches 100 percent after you install the security update that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011

Web Development

• Privacy, Gmail, and Unintended Consequences
• Google Files for IPO

Windows News

• Next XP release slips back
• Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1

Commentaries

• Stop Being a Victim

Open Source

• Zap Annoyances on the Web
• The Linux Cookbook

Programming

• SimpleXML via Harry Fueck
• SimpleXML functions

Tuesday 27 April 2004

Security

• SpoofStick: A browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites

Web Development

• How to Care for Your Web Designer via idly.org
• Google Rank Calculator
• GMail Security Flaw
• Lorem Ipsum - The Motherlode via Forever Geek
• Importing Hotmail into Gmail using Getmail via waxy.org

Utilities

• Winspector - Ultimate Programmers Window Spy Utility via Simon Brunning

Programming

• Teaching Kids Programming: Even Younger Kids Can Learn Java
• PHP and SQL Security

Sunday 25 April 2004

Programming

• Security in Longhorn: Focus on Least Privilege
• Rules of Data Normalization via Delicious
• Learning Perl the Hard Way via Delicious

Culture

• A mosaic of soldiers who have died in Iraq via Metafilter

Friday 23 April 2004

Security

• Code exists to exploit TCP flaw
• New Exploit Allows Compromise of SSL Servers
• Information about code that attempts to exploit PCT in SSL

Web Development

• Gmail Gems via Tomas Jogin
• The Business Value of Web Standards
• The Business Benefits of Web Standards
• Outfox, Outsearch with Firefox
• Extension/Update Manager Screenshots
• Website layouts: Think Outside the Grid via Digital Web Magazine
• CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows

Commentaries

• Microsoft, Open Source and National Security

Programming

• Rapid Web Application Deployment with Maypole
• Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache's Blackbox Logs
• User-Friendly Form Validation with PHP and CSS via The Farm
• Joel on Software: Perfectionism

Thursday 22 April 2004

Security

• Secret Repairs Preceded TCP Flaw Release

Commentaries

• Google and Akamai: Cult of Secrecy vs. Kingdom of Openness via Delicious

Tips

• Securing a fresh Linux install, part 3

Programming

• Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language
• Python in Systems Administration: Part I - Better Scripting
• Python in Systems Administration: Part II - Step up from Shell
• How to Handle (a) Python

Wednesday 21 April 2004

Security

• Transmission Control Protocol security considerations via Bugtraq
• Microsoft patch may prevent computers from booting via Tom's Hardware
• What you should know about spyware via Microsoft Monitor

Tips

• Securing a fresh Linux install, part 2

Programming

• A Beginner's Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming
• The Poetry of Programming via Delicious
• Bringing beauty and order to massive MP3 collections via Delicious
• Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 via Don Box

Tuesday 20 April 2004

Security

• Security Flaw Could Cripple Entire Net
• Vulnerability Issues in TCP
• DSL Reports: Major TCP Vulnerability Unveiled: Protocol flaw sends nations scurrying
• Slashdot: TCP Vulnerability Published

Web Development

• Sites for the disabled flunk access tests
• Westciv Current Free Course: HTML and XHTML for CSS via W3C: CSS
• W3C CSS tutorial: starting with HTML + CSS via W3C: CSS
• Why CSS is good for Google via W3C: CSS
• Good Web Page Titles via webgraphics
• a9 Search Plugin for Firefox via Kristine Beeson
• Mozilla Thunderbird's New Logo via redemption in a blog
• Ping-O-Matic via Paul Hammond

Tips

• Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
• Securing a fresh Linux install, part 1

Programming

• Practical Perl for Security Practitioners
• A Whirlwind Guide to Regular Expressions via Delicious

Monday 19 April 2004

Web Development

• Inside Firefox: Firefox development musings by Ben Goodger via Neil's Smaller World
• The nature of meaning in the age of Google via Delicious

Tips

• Beginners Guides: RAM, Memory and Upgrading
• Stop Acrobat Reader from creating "My eBooks" folders

Programming

• MySQL Conference Roundup
• Optimization: Your worst enemy via Simon Willison
• Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems via Simon Willison
• A, B, C, ... D! The Programming Language
• C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure?
• Why MySQL grew so fast

Saturday 17 April 2004

Web Development

• Keep it Simple: Separating behavior and structure via Simon Willison
• The Importance of the Hypertext Document Title
• Firefox search now works in textboxes and textareas
• Bookmarklet lays out topography of a webpage

Commentaries

• Amazon Search Bar Will Track Your Browsing
• The Official Microsoft-English Dictionary

Tips

• Keyboard Shortcuts via Forever Geek

Programming

• Apocalypse 12: How objects and classes are to work in Perl 6
• Top 10 ways to crash PHP via Simon Willison
• Binary Fun: Brought to you by 1 and 0
• Binary Translator: Convert Regular Text to Binary and vice-versa via Redemption in a Blog

Science

• Trekkie communicator ready to go

Friday 16 April 2004

Privacy

• The average PC: spyware hotel

Web Development

• Project Management: The Problem, the Balloon, and the Four Bedroom House
• JavaScript and the DOM: Let Them Eat Cake

Commentaries

• Don't Make Linux Desktop a Windows Clone

Programming

• Building a Parrot Compiler
• Programming Language Research via Delicious

Thursday 15 April 2004

Security

• Exploits Available For MS04-11 Vulns - **PATCH NOW**
• Securitydocs.com: The Information security library for the infosec pro via Dana Epp
• Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker (Online Book - First Edition) via JoatBlog
• Port Knocking in Action

Web Development

• Referring to Usenet newsgroups, articles and threads in HTML
• Gmail: A Rough Guide to Protecting Your Privacy
• Frames without frames via Simon Willison

Open Source

• Cooperative Linux: Running Linux on Microsoft Windows via Simon Willison
• How Cooperative Linux Works via Simon Willison

Programming

• Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database via Manuzhai
• A myriad of markup systems
• Using Perl code from PHP via The Farm

Wednesday 14 April 2004

Web Development

• California legislator moves to block Gmail
• Gmail likely to clear privacy hurdles
• Google to consider Gmail changes
• A Look At Mozilla For Windows Users
• MS Internet Explorer team is hiring
• Accessibility: Gmail's not turning a blind eye
• Developing With Web Standards: Recommendations and best practices via dwh!
• Styling forms in CSS (Further Updates)
• A9, Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley

Commentaries

• Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source?
• When Fewer Security Alerts are More

Open Source

• Whizzkid develops Linux application for Windows

Programming

• Advanced PHP Resources via Delicious
• Getting Started with PEAR - PHP's Low Hanging Fruit
• Generating Spreadsheets with PHP and PEAR::Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
• Patterns in Unstructured Data via Delicious

Science

• Robots May Fight for the Army

Monday 12 April 2004

Web Development

• Styling Forms in CSS via dwh!
• Introduction to W3C Web Standards via dwh!
• Migrating from Internet Explorer to Firefox via Adot's Notblog
• Cool Boxes Demo via Adot's Notblog
• Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances with GNOME and Other Open Source Projects to Combat Longhorn
• RSS on mobile devices
• VisitorVille: The Fully Integrated Web Analytics Solution via Forever Geek
• Original CSS Zen Garden

Commentaries

• What's So Bad About Microsoft?
• Making a Blogosphere: How to form a local blogosphere in a community, based on the experience of Iranians via Dan Gillmor

Programming

• Smartest Smarty Practices via Delicious
• A guide to coding Perl via Delicious
• Creating a Secure PHP Login Script via Forever Geek
• Extreme Perl book online via Artima
• Perl Style Guide for Large Scale Object Orientated Development via Delicious

Saturday 10 April 2004

Web Development

• How To Sell Accessibility
• XHTML Semantic Generator via CSS Vault
• IE vs. Image Replacement
• Get Control! An Introduction to Process and Documentation for Web Developers
• The Google File System via Delicious

Commentaries

• Gmail accessibility
• GMail Redux
• The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide

Tips

• Hacking Windows Server

Programming

• A guide to writing shell scripts for C/C++/Java and unix programmers via Digital Media Minute
• The Memory Management Reference via Simon Willison
• PHP Code Styleguide via Delicious
• PHP OOP Tutorial via Delicious
• BBC Web Development Guidelines: Appendix A. Perl Coding Standards via Delicious
• Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures

Friday 09 April 2004

Web Development

• Mouseover DOM Inspector via Simon Willinson's Blogmarks
• Better Living Through Bookmarklets
• Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes
• The Future of the Browser via Delicious

Commentaries

• GMail's Terms of Service
• Open Letter to Google to suspend GMail
• Nine Rules for Good Technology
• The Once and Future King: Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide
• How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn via Slashdot
• More Twists and Turns on the Road to Longhorn
• Gmail Requires The Least Personal Info via Web Pro News

Programming

• Regular Expressions in ASP.NET
• Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java
• perl.com: Using Bloom Filters
• Data Mining Email

Culture

• Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons

Wednesday 07 April 2004

Security

• Windows to remain security risk for years to come
• New Bugbear Worm Exploits Unpatched IE Vulnerability

Web Development

• The Way Forward with Web Standards via Mark Pilgrim's b-links
• Getting around IE's MIME type mangling via Mark Pilgrim's b-links
• August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web via Anne van Kesteren
• Google's Gmail hits trademark problem

Programming

• Programming Faq via Delicious
• How to Avoid Writing Code via Delicious

Tuesday 06 April 2004

Privacy

• Google mail "may violate privacy laws"
• Google's Gmail sparks privacy row

Web Development

• Must Have Firefox Search Plugins
• IE 6 pseudo elements bug

Commentaries

• GooOS, the Google Operating System
• The Secret Source of Google's Power via Simon Willison
• More Gmail Beta Testing via Andy Baio

Tips

• How To Monitor the Windows XP Firewall via Forever Geek

Programming

• Python is Cool (and Perl is not), Especially for C/C++ Programmers via Delicious
• The reason PHP is more popular than Java

Monday 05 April 2004

Commentaries

• Testing Gmail via Geek News Central
• Microsoft unprepared for SP2 support nightmare?
• Gmail Privacy Policy via Simon Willison's Blogmarks

Open Source

• The Law Enforcement and Forensic Examiner: Introduction to Linux A Beginners Guide

Tips

• Anonymizing Google's Cookie

Sunday 04 April 2004

Security

• Word flaw a window into Microsoft

Web Development

• Better History Viewing in Firefox
• Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML

Commentaries

• Analysis: Sun, Microsoft interop deal a smokescreen?
• GMail: Free E-Mail With a Steep Price?
• Google mail is evil - privacy advocates
• Google covets your email address: Always delete your Google cookie before and after!
• Daring Fireball's response to Eric S. Raymond's usability rant

Programming

• PHP, MySQL, and Smarty Programming
• Object Orientation Tips
• PHP4 and PHP5 on IIS
• Everything you wanted to know about Stored Procedures

Thursday 01 April 2004

Web Development

• We're Mad As Hell And We're Not Going To Take It Anymore via Neil's Smaller World
• 1GB of webmail from Google
• Google PageRank Explained and Uncovered
• Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail

Windows News

• Memo: Bill Gates To Sabotage Linux Using "Time-Travel" Machine

Utilities

• Installers for GIMP for Windows

Programming

• Clever forms with PHP via Delicious
• Which Programming Language?
• C# Frequently Asked Questions

Culture

• Internet Jackass Day 2004
• Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time via MetaFilter