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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 23, 2006
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How do you make money off all that info bloggers provide? Collective Intellect has a goal: Make bloggers work for The Man.
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 21, 2006
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Pieter Humphrey shows off some of the new features in Workshop for WebLogic 9.2.1 via this screencast in the visual Web service design view. Looks pretty awesome
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OpenDNS Rocks
I first discovered OpenDNS on Chris Pirillio's blog - OpenDNS is a free service that is designed to make your Internet browsing faster, safer and smarter. And guess what - it does that. OpenDNS is essentially a set of massive distributed DNS caches that allow faster name resolution and yet obey the TTL rules for each domain. They have a very fast geographically distributed network of DNS caches that allow for blazingly fast lookup times which allows for faster connections to those sites. The traditional ISP DNS lookup connects to one of the root name servers which in turn send you to the name server for the top-level domain which will then probably get you to the name-server that is hosting the DNS entry for the site you are trying to connect to. OpenDNS skips all of that and return the IP address of the site you are attempting a connection two in a single request.
The safer surfing part comes into play with the phishing filter built into OpenDNS. OpenDNS intercepts connections against known phishing sites, based on network analysis and feeds from other network operators including their new venture PhishTank. PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others submissions.
The smarter bit comes in the typo-correction feature of OpenDNS. So if you're going to google.com and misspell Google, OpenDNS first attempts to correct the typo and get you to the right site instead of the squatter sites that are just waiting for that misspelling to land you on their site.
I have been using OpenDNS for months now since I first read Chris's blog entry about OpenDNS and have been extremely happy with the free service. Can't beat the price - I can't really tell if my surfing is any faster but cognitively I know it is and that makes me happy. 
Another thing that really stands out about OpenDNS is the service - I've had two occasions where I've contacted support to check on some DNS changes I made to move my domains from one hosting vendor to another and I got an almost immediate response both times. John Roberts, who is the VP of Product Development responded back in minutes to my query on both occasions and helped me by force clearing the cached entries for my domain.
Anyone and everyone can start using OpenDNS to surf smarter, faster and safer. Check out their Getting Started page for more information on how to change your router or computer DNS settings to start using OpenDNS.
Tags: dns, dns_lookup, Links, opendns, performance, phishing, securityRelated posts
Daily del.icio.us for Oct 16, 2006
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GWT Designer is a GUI creator that supports GWT. Use GWT Designer’s visual tools and wizards, and Java code will be generated for you. You don’t need to write any lines of Java code, but you can fully edit the resulting Java if you wish.
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 14, 2006
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Scand has announced the release of dhtmlxGrid v.1.1, JavaScript grid component which brings Excel-like functionality on the web. Besides Ajax support, rich cell editing capabilities and client-side sorting presented in previous version, dhtmlxGrid v1.1 de
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 13, 2006
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Google and BEA Systems are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will let organizations create mashups between enterprise portals and applications such as Google Maps.
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 12, 2006
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Here are my selections, categorized between the Best Video Eclipse Tutorials and the Best Eclipse Tutorials. Many of these will show and teach you how to install and start programming immediately using Java and Eclipse.
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This is a detailed description about how to set up a CentOS 4.4 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Fire
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Automation for the people demonstrates how to improve a number of common build practices that prevent teams from creating consistent, repeatable, and maintainable builds.
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 11, 2006
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FetchExc is java utility which retrieves mail from your MS Exchange (2000/2003) inbox and forwards it to SMTP server of your choice or mbox type file. FetchExc uses webDAV (OWA) to retrieve mail either over http or https
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MySQL and Apache can consume quite a bit of memory, if you’re not careful. This post discusses how to reduce the amount of memory they use without killing performance.
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Pictobrowser Rocks
Just found the Pictobrowser from Thomas Hawk's blog and it is an amazing way to embed pictures in your blog. Pictobrowser is a simple widget that allows you to display sets of pictures from Flickr directly on your site or blog using Flash and the users never leave your site. Pictobrowser is the brainchild of Diego Bauducco. Check out a sample below from one of my sets:
Tags: flash, flickr, hawaii, Links, maui, pictobrowser, pictures, slideshow, Web2.0
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 08, 2006
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I love everything Matt Taibbi writes and this is another great article about what he calls the 'lie' of globalization. While I don't agree with his criticism of Thomas Friedman, a great article nonetheless.
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A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in "Dante's inferno," has been circulating through generals' in-boxes. We publish it here with the author's approval
