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Massive SQL Injection Attack - Did You Hit The Snooze Alarm On The Wake Up Call?
I've seen very little blogger chatter about the massive SQL injection attack that is making the news even though it is us web developers who are being blamed for it. Even Jeff Atwood has neglected to blog about it and he loves to rant about shoddy coding practices in the industry.
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LiveVideo Acquires Pageflakes
TechCrunch has reported that Live Universe has acquired Pageflakes and plans to integrate it into LiveVideo. In fact you can already get some sense of how the integration will look by visiting the beta site at http://livevideo.pageflakes.com/
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Iterate Through The Form Collection In ASP.NET 2.0
Yesterday I had to use an iterator to loop through all the data values in a form request. This is well documented for classic ASP and can even be found in the old Active Server Pages SDK help file but it was difficult to find the same method to use for ASP.NET 2.0.
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Generating YouTube Tag Clouds Using ASP.NET
I've finally used ASP.NET 2.0 on my web site. Today I uploaded an ASPX page that generates a tag cloud based on all the tags from a YouTube user's videos. I got this idea from Tweet Clouds, a web site that generates tag clouds based on Twitter posts. I searched the Internet and did not find any similar service for YouTube videos.
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Silverlight SDK Versions And Aggravations
Today I spent the morning trying to figure out some of the reasons for my aggravation with Silverlight development. The first thing I discovered was that I had the RC (Release Candidate) version of the Silverlight 1.0 SDK instead of the RTW (Release To Web) version. This can certainly lead to many aggravating errors and problems.
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Disgusted With Silverlight
Today I worked on a Twitter client in Silverlight. I got pretty far on this project but had some problems creating hyperlinks in the text. I tried the Hyperlink tag in the XAML Pad and it worked there but it would not work in my Silverlight project. I did some research on the Internet and found a web page with a hyperlink example. Incredibly, this example would have you handle all the mouse events and even the text decoration to make a TextBlock act like a hyperlink. This web page also directs you to "See the documentation for TextDecorations property of the TextBlock object in the Silverlight SDK".