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Kayodeok's Headlines for July 2004

Thursday 29 July 2004

Security

• How to Remove Internet Explorer
• Passwords vs. Passphrases
• Fight Virus With Virus: That's the only way to stop MyDoom via Slashdot

Web Development

• Dunstan's Redesign explained (Part 2)
• Throwing Tables Out the Window

Programming

• ANNOUNCE - Perl Power Tools v0.13 - The Resurrection
• How to handle international dates and times in PHP and MySQL
• When perl is not quite fast enough via Delicious
• Great Hackers via Simon's Blogmarks
• Great Hackers: A Rebuttal via Waxy

Culture

• "The Web is the sum of all human knowledge, plus porn."

Tuesday 27 July 2004

Web Development

• Contingency Design: Maximizing Online Profitability By Helping People When Things Go Wrong
• Preview Google search results with this extension
• Getting started with JavaScript
• WordLog.com, a blog about WordPress via Photo Matt
• 'Not Found' Is Not An Option: Error Handling and User Experience via 456 Berea Street
• Will Firefox repeat Netscape's mistakes?
• Hold the Front Page: a sign that times are a changing. Behold the front page of today's Sydney Morning Herald... via Anne Van Kesteren

Open Source

• OOo Off the Wall: Setting Up Page Styles in OOo Writer
• CLI magic: File Transfer Protocol

Programming

• A Beginner's Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming
• Tips for Building Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL via delicious
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist C++ Version
• A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 1
• A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 2
• WWW::Odeon: A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website via Neil Turner

Friday 23 July 2004

Web Development

• Dunstan's Redesign explained (Part 1)
• Firefox Extension questions
• XML on the Web Has Failed
• HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions
• A FAQ about (X)HTML
• Target IE: A look at Internet Explorer alternatives (Part 1)
• List of sites with a Pagerank 10 via Waxy

Open Source

• Switching to Linux via Compendium
• OpenOffice Tips: Writer, Calc and Impress

Utilities

• Lookout V1.2 available for download

Programming

• brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem
• Text_Highlighter via Dunstan's blogmarks

Tuesday 20 July 2004

Security

• Bugtraq: More Webserver / IE Exploits
• Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked?
• New Phishing Technique Works on Multiple Browsers

Web Development

• Google, circa 1960 via Kottke
• Site-specific extensions
• Feedster/Bloglines citation bookmarklets
• Clickable Link Backgrounds
• Designing a CSS based template - part IV via CSS Vault

Windows News

• Big Changes Underway for Windows Drivers
• Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code

Programming

• [C#] Build Your Own Custom Browser Using C# Express via The Farm
• Dive Into Python on Paper
• Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 5

Sunday 18 July 2004

Web Development

• Competent Classing
• Version 2 of 1976design.com via Simon Willison Blogmarks
• Floats Don't Suck If You Use Them Right
• Split a webpage into 2 with this bookmarklet
• Faking it: WordPress as CMS via Weblog Tools Collection
• Fixed or fluid, you decide via Isolani
• Firefox Tweak Guide

Programming

• Making mysql a bit more shell-like
• A tutorial on vim (part 3 of 3), be a vim power user
• Why PHP 5 Rocks!
• PHP 5 Object References via Simon Willison's Blogmarks
• Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5: What has changed in PHP 5 via Keith Devens

Thursday 15 May 2004

Security

• How to stop Internet Explorer pop-ups

Web Development

• The second browser war via Paranoid Fish
• Designing a CSS based template - part I via CSS Vault
• Designing a CSS template - part II Creating the background
• Designing a CSS based template - part III
• CSS signatures via Simon Willison
• Extending Mozilla-Based Browsers
• Getting your DIVs to behave like TABLEs via CSS Vault
• Why "Under Construction" should be made illegal on the web
• Securing Apache

Commentary

• Are there non-evil reasons why customers continue to like Microsoft products?

Wednesday 14 July 2004

Web Development

• Firefox 1.0 Targeted for September
• RSS feed integration in Firefox
• More on new Firefox features
• Making Blockquote and Cite Tags look pretty via delicious
• Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
• Per Site User Stylesheets via Photo Matt
• Learning CSS

Open Source

• How Linux boots
• SysAdmin to SysAdmin: What you shouldn't put into production

Programming

• Tutorial - Writing Classes in PHP
• Vim for Perl developers via delicious
• Client Side PHP in Internet Explorer

Monday 12 July 2004

Web Development

• Writing Efficient CSS
• Mozilla Gains on IE
• Accessibility hacker facing lawsuit for improving Odeon's site via svoc

Windows News

• Windows update will be late, Microsoft says
• Windows XP SP2 to go gold in August

Programming

• Security Aspects of a PHP/MySQL-based Login System for Web Sites via delicious
• Building a Site Engine with PHP, Part 4
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ via delicious

Saturday 10 July 2004

Security

• Keep Your Friends Safe
• Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
• Watch Out for Google and Anti-spyware Products

Web Development

• Switch to Firefox via Asa
• Google PageRank Plugin for Firefox via Waxy
• Bloggers Suffer Burnout
• Single Post Wins Google Contest
• Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition
• Is the W3C Becoming Irrelevant? via Simon's Blogmarks

Programming

• Online Programming Tutorials via delicious
• Programming Tutorials via delicious
• Perl Cookbook
• Building a PHP Front Controller
• Listing Installed Perl Modules in RSS
• XML to MS Word: A Standards-Based Open-Source Approach for Publishing to Microsoft Word via delicious

Wednesday 07 July 2004

Security

• Another Internet Explorer flaw found

Web Development

• Fine-Tune Your Web Site for Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Bloglines gets much cooler

Tips

• Safely Installing (and Slipstreaming) Windows XP
• Windows XP: Surviving the First Day
• Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3 manual removal of the Administrator account
• How to get "RunAs" to work with Windows Explorer

Programming

• SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Approaching Perl
• Perl Style Guide for Large Scale Object Oriented Development
• Advanced Perl DBI

Tuesday 06 July 2004

Web Development

• Question Time: Visited Links
• Google Guide: Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators) via Gadgetopia

Commentary

• A Review of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2(Release Candidate 2) via NT Compatible

Programming

• Some PHP Guidelines to Live By
• Comment Sanitation with PHP
• Tidying up your HTML with PHP 5
• Safe HTML checker
• Programming Perl
• Source code for FedEx Tracker in RSS
• Source Code for Google to RSS using SOAP API

Sunday 04 July 2004

Security

• Secunia advisories on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Security Tracker's List of Internet Explorer Security Alerts
• Race conditions in security UI via Simon's Blogmarks
• Replace and disable Internet Explorer now

Web Development

• Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer
• One Week with Firefox, its Extensions and Opera
• <html language = "javascript"> via 456 Berea Street
• XHTML Validator to RSS

Programming

• Handling multiple submits in a single form with PHP
• Why PHP Scales - A Cranky, Snarky Answer via Keith's Weblog
• The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP via Keith's Weblog
• The PHP Scalability Myth