I wish I was Digg.com because I found a great article from SmashingMagazine.com about Website Security. It’s very long and comprehensive – which I like. This article touches on a lot of things. It lists the ways your website might be vulnerable and it gives you solutions. Furthermore, it also gives you some links to help you check if you’re site is vulnerable. This article is definitely worth checking out.
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I like the concept of Digg. It helps free up the information so more people can find it. If you don’t know what Digg is, please go and check out Digg right now. Please comeback or you’ll miss out on what I have to say.
In this article I’m going to tell you how you’re going to create your Digg-like site, I’m going to give you some examples of Digg sites that are out there, and then I’m going to give you my contact information in case you want to get started and need my help.
Let’s get started because there is a lot of competition out there and we don’t want to miss out on our opportunity now do we?
Welcome to Sun Life Stadium, the 22-year-old arena that the Miami Dolphins call their home. In the ad of all ads, insurance company Sun Life Financial Inc. purchased naming rights to the stadium for the 2010 Pro Bowl and Super Bowl. Now, I know, I know, I’m a little late and the Pro Bowl is already over. But this weekend, the Super Bowl!!!
Out of context for my blog, and yet, still relevant.
Visit SourceWhen developing software or just working with a lot of files and folders. There comes a time when you need to figure out the differences in your files and folders. When that time comes, you can either spend a lot of money on something fancy, or you can go the free way and take a look at the following free file compare programs.
It’s pretty easy to get started. Just select your files and then compare them. The only thing I don’t like about this one is that it doesn’t let you compare folders.
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I just came across a good article on sitepoint.com about How To Handle Client Support Requests Virtually. It has a few good points and links to other articles from sitepoint.com that you should skim also. The article talked about using screen shot tools to show what you’re talking about, it listed some meeting tools to help facilitate collaboration, and it told you how to remote into your client’s computer.
Visit SourceFlash Cookies, otherwise known as Local Shared Objects, are stored on your system by many Flash Applications to save game state, session information, and other security related information. It’s really up to you to decide whether or not you want to keep the cookies, and for how long. I had a situation recently where I wanted to, um, by-pass something and so I had to delete the Flash Cookies for that site.
Keep in mind, Flash Cookies are not the same as your regular browser cookies. These type of cookies persists longer than a browser session and are not controlled by your browser settings. As a matter of fact, Flash Cookies don’t have to distinguish between a browser. They can be used to store information for IE & Firefox. Which means if you’re a flash developer and you want to customize your site for either browser and be able to tell if the user has come to your site from one browser or the other. Let’s say you want to display a “welcome back” message. With normal cookies you wouldn’t be able to tell if the user came to your site already using IE, should they come in using FireFox. Flash Cookies or Local Shared Objects would give you a way to tell if they’ve been to your site before, regardless of what browser they used.
Whatever your reasoning for needing to remove your Flash Cookies, here’s how you’re going to do it.
Internet Explorer 8 was released March 19, 2009 and what an exciting browser it was supposed to be. It was going to be faster, allow you to browse privately, it was going to be be XHTML compliant, and it was going to be more secure. All those fun things, right? Sadly, IE8 was faster, had a private mode, it was XHMTL compliant, and more secure than the older IE browsers.
You must be wondering what the problem is right? Well, there wasn’t really a problem with the browser. There was a problem with your code, wasn’t there? You coded around IE6 & IE7 bugs. You made your site look lovely in those 2 browsers, and now that IE8 is out, your site looks broken again, doesn’t it?
What are you supposed to do about it?
I’m a huge fan of Open Source. If you don’t believe me, check out my meetup group, Richmond’s Open Source Meetup Group.
This little article lists 40 of the Free Open Source Resources out there to help you save some money. With a tough economy like the one we’re facing today, it’s good to be able to save any penny you can. By the way, if you scroll down far enough, you’ll see that there’s a free eBook in there about Linux.
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In 2009, Smashing Magazine wrote up a great article about the 10 ways to improve the accessibility of your XHTML website by making it standards-compliant. A few of the things they touched up on were specifying the correct DOCTYPE, one thing we seems to ignore because most of the time our IDEs generate this for us; defining the namespace and the default language; supplying proper meta tags. They go ahead and list 10 of them.
Again, a great article. I like to brush up on the article every few months so I can save time in the long run.
If you’re into jQuery, then you need to bookmark this site. It’s amazing! Not only do you get links to some of the great jQuery plugins out there, you also get links to some amazing articles/tutorials on jQuery. Try it out and let me know if you need help with anything.
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