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New tools to prevent SQL injection attacks
I've blogged in the past about injection attacks . Microsoft publishes additional new tools to detect and protect against injection attacks. The first tool, developed by HP, crawls web sites to automatically detect possible attacks, the second blocks...
A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy
This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft... http://arstechnica...
Ajax usage survey among .NET developers
Following the more open-sourcey informal study that was recently advertised on Ajaxian , Simone Chiaretta publishes and analyses the results of his own study that he recently made and that is aimed exclusively at .NET developers. While Richard Monson...
D'oh! I guess they didn't think about that one...
Too funny: http://nldd.lordabdul.net//12.html
Microsoft now in the OpenAjax steering comittee
Thanks to all members who voted. I'm looking forward to working with the other members. http://www.openajax.org/blogs/?p=41
.NET framework: now with source code
Scott just announced it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx This will make debugging .NET apps a lot easier... More details on how this is going to work exactly on Shawn's blog...
OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0: Microsoft's entry
Yesterday I got to write our entry in OpenAjax's InteropFest . The goal of this event is to demonstrate how different Ajax libraries can be parts of the OpenAjax ecosystem and interact with each other through the OpenAjax hub . The currently central feature...
Outlook pst file repair tool
Yesterday, I was doing some mailbox cleaning after a week away from the office taking care of my family (that now counts one more little girl), and I suddenly got unable to move e-mail from the inbox into folders (a message was telling me the message...
Photo Album works on Windows Home Server
I was super-excited to learn that Andrew Grant was able to run the Photo Handler unmodified on Windows Home Server . This is actually one more reason for me to put Home Server on my to-buy list. I shoot thousands of pictures a year and only upload the...
Old iPaq and Media Player 11?
This is so frustrating I thought I'd just make a blog post and see if someone has a solution. I have an old HP iPaq of the 1900 series, partnered with my Vista Laptop. I like that old PocketPC because it's fairly slim, easy to program and runs a few nice...
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