From the monthly archives:

September 2006

Daily del.icio.us for Sep 30, 2006

September 30, 2006

Browser-Based Authentication
BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that existing Yahoo! users can use your services without having to complete yet another registration process.
(tags: Yahoo identity authentication api openid ydn Browser mashup programming Security web2.0 WebServices)

Eclipse Ecosystem: Build versus collaborate
Bezos explains this behavior as organizations thinking their infrastructure or platform is part of [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 29, 2006

September 29, 2006

Roll your own servers with Netcat – Lifehacker
Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason. Like the best UNIX utilities, it's very simple but can perform all sorts of useful tasks.
(tags: unix netcat linux networking security utilities)

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 26, 2006

September 26, 2006

A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
The cries of frustration I hear from other developers about CSS are only an echo of the ones I made for years. As a result I like to think that I can relate, and I'm writing to convey the most important lessons I've [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 24, 2006

September 24, 2006

SecuriTeam – SQL Injection Walkthrough
The following article will try to help beginners with grasping the problems facing them while trying to utilize SQL Injection techniques, to successfully utilize them, and to protect themselves from such attacks.
(tags: Security sql injection Hacking database programming web testing xss)

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Essential Software for Windows

September 23, 2006

You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can't [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2006

September 20, 2006

Geek Smithology – The State of Enterprise Ruby
The real takeaway is that if you truly believe in using the best tool for the job, then you will be using Ruby at some point in the future.
(tags: rails Ruby Enterprise dave+thomas scalability)

StorageMojo – Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon's Datacenter, Pt I
Unlike Goole�s clean sheet approach to creating [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 18, 2006

September 18, 2006

HP Media Vault — NAS we go again – Engadget
The HP Media Vault, a run of the mill RAID 0/1 unit coming in either 300GB / $379 (with one empty bay) or 500GB / $549 (with one empty bay) configurations. It'll also feature gigabit Ethernet, three USB ports, and expandability up to 1.2TB
(tags: nas backup [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 14, 2006

September 14, 2006

InfoQ: An Update on Spring 2.0 Final
Spring 2.0 was initially supposed to come out in June/July, why the delay? InfoQ spoke to the Spring team including Rod Johnson, Rob Harrop, Adrian Colyer, and Juergen Holler, to find out what’s happening with the framework and what’s coming up.
(tags: Spring spring2.0 SpringFramework Java jms jpa pojo)

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 12, 2006

September 12, 2006

JRuby Presentation in Video and Slides
Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter have put together an online video and slide presentation along with InfoQ about JRuby.
(tags: java ruby jruby infoq video presentation)

AjaxChat: Chatting, the AJAX Way!
In this article, an excerpt from Practical Ajax Projects with Java Technology (Apress, July 2006), Frank W. Zammetti illustrates how to built [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 11, 2006

September 11, 2006

Amazon Unbox Video – More of the same
Amazon launched their latest offering entitled Unbox Video which is essentially a video (TV shows, movies, etc) download to buy or rent service and it's more of the same. Nothing new, nothing exciting and nothing worth the download.
(tags: amazon download drm DVD ipod itunes netflix s3 unbox video)

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Amazon Unbox Video – More of the same

September 10, 2006

Amazon launched their latest offering entitled Unbox Video which is essentially a video (TV shows, movies, etc) download to buy or rent service. Rumor is that Amazon rushed this out on Friday, September 8th to beat some super secret announcement coming from Apple later next week.

The Unbox video service doesn't offer anything new and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 07, 2006

September 7, 2006

Building Cheat Sheets in Eclipse
This tutorial demonstrates how to construct cheat sheets for Eclipse. As a result, they'll also run on BEA Workshop Studio and BEA Workshop for WebLogic—and any other Eclipse ecosystem, perhaps complementing your existing tools and plug-ins. The sample
(tags: cheatsheet dev developer development howto java programming articles Eclipse weblogic workshop workshop+studio)

Web 2.0 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 06, 2006

September 6, 2006

InfoQ: Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
(tags: amazon ec2 s3 scalability webservice hosting)

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 04, 2006

September 4, 2006

Amazon EC2 and S3 – Implications for the Enterprise
Now that the blogosphere has settled down after the launch of Amazon's EC2 beta program, I figured it was time to talk about something that I found missing in all the blogs and online discussions. The advantages of this virtual platform are pretty
(tags: amazon ec2 s3 Enterprise [...]

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Amazon EC2 and S3 – Implications for the Enterprise

September 3, 2006

Now that the blogosphere has settled down after the launch of Amazon's EC2 beta program, I figured it was time to talk about something that I found missing in all the blogs and online discussions.
Before we get to the Enterprise implication of EC2 and S3, I should probably let the people that haven't [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 03, 2006

September 3, 2006

Introduction to Using Dojo
Dojo is the Open Source, portable JavaScript toolkit that lets you build interactive modules quickly, animate transitions, and construct Ajax requests with ease. We think Dojo is the most powerful and easiest to use Ajax and DHTML toolkit on the planet
(tags: ajax blog dojo framework howto javascript programming reference tutorial toread)

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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 02, 2006

September 2, 2006

Google Revealed: The IT Strategy That Makes It Work – Management News by InformationWeek
A unique mix of internally developed software, open source, made-to-order hardware, and people management is the secret behind the search engine.
(tags: architecture article strategy technology tech hardware google management ToRead blogs productivity foss Enterprise IT)

Make the Right Decision with Our Side-by-Side Comparison [...]

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