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Kayodeok's Headlines for May 2004

Monday 31 May 2004

Security

• Longhorn: Adopting a least privilege stance for users
• Understanding Threat Modeling

Web Development

• How to make a linkblog in Atom
• How to make a good ID in Atom
• Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death
• Using :visited and expression() to detect any visited link via Anne Van Kesteren
• Bookmarks for standards testing
• Sam Ruby's Detente
• Really Simple Syndication: Everything a non-tech user needs to know about RSS 2.0
• Measuring em Widths via Anne Van Kesteren
• FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff
• How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

Programming

• Secure programmer: Minimizing privileges via Dana Epp
• Perl 6 Periodic Table of the Operators

Wednesday 26 May 2004

Security

• Email Tracking: It Gets Worse

Web Development

• Guild of Accessible Web Designers launches

Tips

• Top 12 Ways to Degunk Your PC
• Hacking Excel, Part 2
• Windows XP - Command-line reference A-Z

Programming

• Beginner's guide to Vi Improved (vim)
• Modern Static Typing: Less Code, Better Code or, "How Java/C++/C# Ruin Static Typing for the Rest of Us"
• Database Templating Engine
• The Object Oriented Improvements of PHP 5
• Writing Clean and Efficient PHP Code

Tuesday 25 May 2004

Security

• Why Blaster did not infect Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft releases new Threat Modeling Tool
• Should XP pirates get SP2?
• Dangerous Bobax Worm Hits System Files

Web Development

• Background Images Security Flaw? via Simon's Blogmarks
• Syndication, the web, the future, XML and flying pigs
• Configuring and Using the Apache HTTP Web Server on a Windows XP PC via Forever Geek
• Textpattern is Open Source Software
• (On the XML Icon): Little. Orange. Stupid.

Programming

• Programming is an Art
• Java and PHP
• Thoughts on using DOM as a template engine
• Choosing a Templating System
• Pronunciation guide for unix

Culture

• And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink via Rafe Colburn

Sunday 23 May 2004

Web Development

• Ticked Off? Visited Links How-To via Anne Van Kesteren
• Web Forms 2.0 via Anne Van Kesteren
• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux via Delicious

Windows News

• Windows Update Refreshed as XP SP2 Nears

Programming

• Publishing MySQL Data in RSS 2.0 via Scripting News
• PHP Coding Standard

Friday 21 May 2004

Web Development

• Contingency Design - Leveraging Google when your database server takes a holiday
• Forms, usability, and the W3C DOM
• A List Apart: Print It Your Way
• A List Apart: Onion Skinned Drop Shadows
• DTD Mapper via DHTML & CSS Blog
• Creating Accessible Forms via Phil Gyford
• Sons of Suckerfish: Experimenting with the :hover, :active, :focus and :target CSS pseudo-classes via CSS Vault

Programming

• A History Map of Programming Languages
• Google Calculator from Command Line
• Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use And Save Regular Expressions with RegexBuddy
• Visual Basic at the Movies
• Programmers Tools

Thursday 20 May 2004

Security

• Old Economy Fed Up With Cyber-Security
• A proposal to help fight deceptive Internet software

Web Development

• Quick Poll - Can headings be links? via Anne Van Kesteren
• ScreenshotBlog via Anne Van Kesteren
• The Courtship of Atom via Anne Van Kesteren
• Separating Behavior and Presentation via Anne Van Kesteren
• 3D CSS Box Model via Anne Van Kesteren
• CSS Beauty: CSS Design Showcase via Anne Van Kesteren

Windows News

• A First Look at Longhorn

Commentaries

• I would RTFM if there was an FM to FR via Compendium
• What's Your Terrorist Quotient?
• Google's Game To Lose

Programming

• Emacs Wiki
• Programming in the Brain
• Conditional GET with LWP & Perl
• Beyond The Template Engine via Photo Matt
• Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
• Bash Guide for Beginners
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Unlimited Weblogs
• A Tao of Regular Expressions

Culture

• Angel fights to the bleak, bitter end via Plastic Bag

Wednesday 19 May 2004

Security

• Why Windows is a Security Nightmare via Simon Willison
• New Yahoo Standard (called DomainKeys) Could Reduce Spam
• Google defines good manners for adware
• The SkyNet Virus: Why it is Unstoppable; How to Stop it via Lambda the Ultimate

Web Development

• Don't submit your website to any search engines via Digital Media
• Design Eye for the Usability Guy via Anne Van Kesteren
• An objective look at IE CSS via Anne Van Kesteren
• What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?
• Google for the Desktop

Programming

• Survival Guide to LAMP: File Creation in PHP is Nobody's Problem
• The Top 10 Elements of Good Software Design
• Naming Classes - Do It Once And Do It Right
• Perl: grep, map and sort
• Python Eggs: Your one-stop links page for all things Python via The Farm

Tuesday 18 May 2004

Security

• TCP/IP Skills Required for Security Analysts

Web Development

• Understanding Unicode
• How to size text using ems
• Camera Phones Link World to Web
• How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell

Programming

• Survival Guide to LAMP: PHP is not always open
• Netscape's Software Coding Standards Guide For Java
• ThreadMentor: The Dining Philosophers Problem via The Farm

Monday 17 May 2004

Web Development

• i let u b u via Anne van Kesteren
• Clearing Floats
• DMOZ Category for Google Weblogs via Research Buzz
• New Google Bookmarklet for Google Web Alerts
• Bookmarklet for Searching Google News

Programming

• Sort algorithm via Delicious
• Instant XML with PHP and PEAR::XML_Serializer
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Taught by Tweak
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Multiple Weblogs Support In Wordpress
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Who says you gotta be dynamic
• Hardened PHP

Culture

• The Elements of Style via Mark Pilgrim
• More timewasting garbage, another copy-editing moron via Mark Pilgrim

Friday 14 May 2004

Security

• 'Dabber' worm targets computers through Sasser
• Dabber Worm Analysis

Web Development

• Separation: The Web Designer's Dilemma
• Tables My Ass: A response to Dave Shea and Andy Budd
• Non-Standard Code Hurts The Bottom Line
• Colour Schemes
• Atom API Quick Guide
• How Search Can Help You Understand Your Audience
• Photoshop Tutorials

Programming

• Survival Guide to LAMP: Installing the Weblogging Tools
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Rushing Forward
• Implementing Bayesian Inference Using PHP
• Windows Debuggers: Part 1: A WinDbg Tutorial
• A Tutorial Introduction to GNU Emacs
• vi Reference

Thursday 13 May 2004

Security

• Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do? via Geek News Central

Web Development

• Google Groups 2 (Beta) via Google Weblog
• Google Groups 2: Usenet Atom Feeds
• The W3C wants the Atom community to work through them via Nick Bradbury
• A Review of the Google Blog
• An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design
• Survival Guide to i18n
• Gasp! Tables!: Dave Shea's comments on Tables for layouts

Programming

• Getting PHP to make the HTML
• Thinking through a feature

Wednesday 12 May 2004

Web Development

• Responsible CSS - Recycle your background images via CSS Vault
• Google approved PageRank stripping

Tips

• Hacking Excel: Create a Speedometer Chart

Programming

• Practical Reflection in Java
• Java Glossary : Getting Started via Delicious
• XML with PHP4, PHP5
• PDML PHP tricks via Simon Willison

Tuesday 11 May 2004

Security

• Microsoft now says SP2 will not install on pirated copies of Windows XP
• Yahoo's Web Bugs: How to Opt Out

Web Development

• Google has a weblog
• The Great Blogger Relaunch
• Writing For Google

Windows News

• Longhorn In-Depth via Longhorn Blogs

Monday 10 May 2004

Web Development

• Zeldman on the Blogger redesign
• Bowman on the Blogger redesign
• Bloglines Toolkit for Mozilla
• Hidden feature: use Mozilla inside FeedDemon!
• When semantic coders go bad via Delicious
• Proogle: Google with PageRank shown
• Redesigning the W3C Validator Page
• SimpleQuiz: Launching Windows with XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype

Programming

• Java is the SUV of programming tools via Forever Geek
• Tidy HTML
• Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours via Delicious
• The Art of Assembly Language: Windows Edition
• The Art of Assembly Language: Linux Edition
• Why Use .Net?
• An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor

Sunday 09 May 2004

Security

• Sasser Worm Suspect Confesses
• Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2

Web Development

• Internet Protocols
• Art Direction and the Web
• W3C Validator Update
• Semantic Coding

Utilities

• Screensaver: Dreaming of Electric Sheep via Bit-101

Programming

• Your First Cup of Java (for Microsoft Windows) via Delicious
• PDML: Portable Document Markup Language via PHP Blog: Dynamically Typed
• Perl: Building Testing Libraries
• Seven Low-Cost Ways to Improve Legacy Code
• Switch statements in Python
• Why Learning Assembly Language is Still a Good Idea
• Why Programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily-formulated ideas via Delicious
• Survival Guide to LAMP: The command line is Fine, Come on In
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Ten Basic Commands of Linux

Thursday 06 May 2004

Web Development

• Reality is Corrosive
• Optimize your Style Sheet via CSS Vault
• Navigation Matrix Reloaded
• FeedDemon XSLT Challenge

Windows News

• Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Version 2)

Programming

• Conditional get
• Supporting Conditional GET in PHP
• Survival Guide to LAMP: Basic Ingredients
• Easier form validation with PHP

Tuesday 04 May 2004

Security

• Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading user's brains
• We are all security customers

Web Development

• When semantic markup goes bad via WASP
• How to Create a Navigational Matrix via web graphics

Open Source

• Knoppix 3.4 Released via OS News

Culture

• Baby Sign Language via MetaFilter

Monday 03 May 2004

Security

• Why 'Sasser' does not affect Win2003

Web Development

• Does Microsoft Care About Web Standards? via Nick Bradbury
• The weakness of Google
• Text Tool Analyzes Several Different Word Factors via Research Buzz
• Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released
• What Is Web Accessibility?
• Mountaintop Corners
• Crazy CSS

Programming

• A Practical Theory of Programming via Delicious
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++ via The Farm
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java via The Farm
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C# via The Farm
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python via The Farm
• Memory Management for Large-File Editors: Part 1 - Memory Management via Delicious
• Memory Management for Large-File Editors: Part 2 - Algorithms and Techniques via Delicious
• Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language via Delicious

Sunday 02 May 2004

Security

• What You Should Know About the Sasser Worm
• New worm's got sass, but not much else
• Microsoft Internet Explorer SSL Icon Error May Let Remote Users Impersonate Secure Web Sites

Web Development

• Javascript form validation - doing it right
• Dumping MS Internet Explorer, choosing Mozilla
• A Random Collection of Photoshop CS Tips
• Staying valid
• Build an XML-Based Content Management System with PHP
• Preparing for Semantic Web Services

Programming

• Guides For Writing Shell Scripts
• Online Book: Beginning Perl
• Generating Web Page Statistics using PHP
• Java Cheat Sheet

Science

• Photons teleported six kilometers

Culture

• Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water