Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Mobile Browser w/Flash
www.skyfire.com
This browser supports flash for the Windows Mobile and Symbian Phones. I installed it last week and have been watching hulu.com on the bus since.
The time it took to go to the site, download the app and be watching the Family Guy was less than 5 minutes.
Army’s Virtual World takes some time to load but [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Flash, WindowsMobile by steve
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
safari 4 released
Safari i 4 is now in open beta and almost ready for release
Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser.
Download Safari
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by matthew
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
quick introduction to LINQ
No more stored procedures and manipulation XML doc/dataset with nested loops, LINQ provides strongly typed resultset with universal data query syntax for all types datasources.
The overview is spot on, and there are links to “5 minute introduction of LINQ to SQL/Objects/XML” if you want to explore a little bit deeper.
http://www.hookedonlinq.com/LINQOverview.ashx
No Comments » - Posted in Microsoft .Net by Danny
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Awsome article about being an expert
Being an expert isn’t telling other people what you know. It’s understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001226.html
1 Comment » - Posted in Technology by craig
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Facebook comment
Detailed on the Facebook Developers blog and wiki, the company’s new Comment Box allows any website or blog owner to use Facebook for their comment system. A snippet of code can be added to static pages, or CMSes like Movable Type and WordPress via plug-ins, to embed the Comment Box. Whether visitors have a Facebook [...]
No Comments » - Posted in facebook by craig
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Palm - overview of webOS
Yay, some more details on the new PalmOS webOS. You can download the first chapter of an O’Reilly currently being written. I’m intrigued.
You can think of webOS applications as native applications, but built from the same standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript that you’d use to develop web applications. Palm has extended the standard web development [...]
No Comments » - Posted in webOS by craig
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
NyTimes article skimmer
Nice way to browse the morning news.
Ny Times Article Skimmer
1 Comment » - Posted in HTML, javascript by jon
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Web Security
Following on from Andy’s email I just happen to come across these two articles. One details XSS attacks the other talks about Cross-Site Request Forgeries (CSRF) which i hadn’t really heard about before.
Read these everyone.
Cross-Site Request Forgeries and You
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001171.html
Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001167.html
Andy’s docs are here:-
Tech\Application Security
1 Comment » - Posted in security by craig
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Gmail’s New ‘Add Location’ Feature Is Too Honest
Nice Wired blog entry about Gmail’s location aware signature function. Good location-based article links at the end.
