October 2011 Entries
At http://www.darkreading.com/... you will find details of the mass SQL Injection Attacks that have taken place recently. These attacks appear to have compromised a million web sites. There are links to a further 3 reports. These are: http://twimgs.com/darkreadi... (this explains the blind SQL attack) http://i.techweb.com/darkre...
On CodePlex there is a new project at http://nsession.codeplex.com for sharing session state between classic ASP and ASP.NET "The objective of this project is to allow ASP Classic to access ASP.NET out-of-process session stores in the same way that ASP.NET accesses them, and thus share the session state with ASP.NET. In the initial release, we only support the ASP.NET state server as it is a popular choice and it offers better performance than the SQL Server session store. Please see the Documentation...
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I am not a fan of the J*** language, but on its official web site at http://www.java.com/en/down... it states: "We highly recommend users remove all older versions of Java from your system. Keeping old and unsupported versions of Java on your system presents a serious security risk. Removing older versions of Java from your system ensures that Java applications will run with the most up-to-date security and performance improvements on your system."...
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Recently I heard from a reader of the blog about an alternative to GhostDoc - the Atomineer Utils Addin at http://www.atomineerutils.com/ Besides working with C# and Vb.NET it does also handle C++ and J***. Should you be a J*** fan then this could be a very useful utility. There is a feature comparison with respect to ghostDoc at http://www.atomineerutils.c... There is a 30-day evaluation available at http://www.atomineerutils.c... The single-user license of $9.99 and the annual...
I have previously blogged about that excellent tool Notepad++. Recently during discussion with a colleague I discovered that Notepad++ can be extended by means of a plug-in to be a Hexadecimal editor. For more details see http://www.mydigitallife.in... You can download Notepadd++ from http://sourceforge.net/proj... and plug-ins from http://sourceforge.net/proj... The licence is GPL, however this utility...
At http://www.darkreading.com/... there is a disturbing report on the extent of SQL injection attacks. The atttack is not just SQL Injection attack but uses scripts to initiate "drive-by" downloads to the client PC? What are you doing to secure your websites both externally facing and internally facing? Are you installing a full-spectrum security solution such as Sunbelt's VIPRE on your client PC's...
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At http://www.netmagazine.com/... there is a very interesting article on browser take-up rates. (And of course keep on eye on the IE6 Countdown site at http://www.ie6countdown.com - are you encouraging people to upgrade from IE6/7?)...
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Recently I was copying a composite property which I will just have to refer to as Team. (This was on client's code so I have to change all the names) In class A, Team looked like: return this.Tom + "-" + this.Dick + "-" + this.Harry; In class B, Tom, Dick and Harry were called UncleTom, UncleDick and UncleHarry. When I copied the composite property from class A to class B, highlighted Tom in this.Tom and pressed control-J, ReSharper went straight to this.UncleTom - "clever" ReSharper! Really I should...
The New Horizons now only has 11 AU to go to Pluto! If today you go to http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mis... you can see that the New Horizons space craft is now so far from Earth that light takes 5 hrs 56 minutes and 4 seconds to make the round trip! (For those counting days, it has only another 1372 days and some hours before closest approach to Pluto.)
Prior to the D-Day landing in Normandy, France in June 1944, General Irwin Rommel stated ""Glauben Sie mir, meine Herren, die ersten vierundzwanzig Stunden dieser Invasion werden entscheidend sein! Das wird für die Alliierten, aber auch für die Deutschen, der längste Tag werden — der längste Tag." ("Believe me, gentlemen, the first twenty-four hours of this invasion will be decisive! It will become for the Allies, as well as for the Germans, the longest day — the longest day.")" LINK The phrase "The...
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A reader of this blog wrote "It would be great to find out the reasons why programming languages are designed the way they are." The first computer languages were the assemblers. When I started programming in 1979, I learnt to read IBM360 machine code as well as write RPG, Cobol and CICS. Assembly languages are easier to use than writing directly in machine code. RPG stands for Report Program Generator and is an excellent language for writing reports to print on fixed pitch font printers. These were...
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At http://www.sqlsharp.com/fea... there is a series of SQL CLR functions for SQL Server 2005 and later. The basic set can be downloaded for free! For $200, an additional 50+ functions are available. The benefit of using them is well argued at http://www.simple-talk.com/
At http://www.ie6countdown.com/, the Internet Explorer 6 Countdown was stuck for some time as its source of data had changed the way the data was collected. This has now been fixed and the latest statistics at http://www.ie6countdown.com... show that Poland's joins the league of countries whose usage of IE6 has dropped below 1%. Will Austria currently at 1.2% IE6 usage be next
At http://social.technet.micro... there are a series of resources on surviving the upgrade to IPv6
At http://blog.sqlauthority.co... there is an excellent article on functions that have been added to the next version of SQL Server. I like in particular the TryParse function that will allow a more controlled approach to loading numerical data that has been manually entered
I have recently completed reviewing the APress book "Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming" - ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3530-9. This is a good book to learn C# by doing something practical. I would give this book an unqualified excellent rating except there was some out of date advice on Exception handling with respect to the use of ApplicationException. (The advice given with Framework 2.0 has been superceeded. - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... where it states...
At http://www.infoworld.com/d/... there are 15 Essential Open-Source Tools for Windows Admins
At http://dotnetvideos.net/Fre... there is an excellent set of free ASP.NET 2.0 videos. You will need free registration to view this site