Jon Galloway

Cross-site scripting attacks, or XSS, are a common web application vulnerability in which an attacker uses your website to present malicious code to another user. OWASP sums it up like this:

I just posted about my favorite way to watch videos: streaming the playlist at high speed using VLC. But there are times where you'd like a local copy of the videos, too, e.g. watching them while commuting without internet access.

I'm still catching up on all the great content at MIX 11. There is a ton of great content - 116 videos when I last looked. Scott Hanselman already posted a great summary of ways to get and watch them. With this many videos to watch, though, you might want to bring out some big guns, and that's what this post is all about.

Jesse Liberty interviewed me about ASP.NET MVC 3 recently on Yet Another Podcast. It was a lot of fun being a guest on a podcast for a change. Here are some of the highlights:

HTML Helpers provide a clean way to encapsulate view code so you can keep your views simple and markup focused. There are lots of built in HTML Helpers in the System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper class, but one of the best features is that you can easily create your own helpers. While you've been able to create your own helpers since MVC 1 using extension methods, the Razor view engine gives you a new option to create helpers using the @helper keyword.

I've answered the "Where can I learn about MVC 3" question enough that it's time for a blog post.