Archive For October 11th, 2005

First Post!

It’s the cry that gets up everyone’s goat on online forums, especially slashdot, but Eric setiawan runs First Post where he blogs about people’s first posts. My first post got that treatment today, going all the way back to 1998. A lot has happened since!

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Ajax Mistakes

Ajax Mistakes – just don’t ajaxify everything please!

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Writing Scalable Applications with PHP

Linux Journal’s Writing Scalable Applications with PHP article makes a bold claim which some of the comments on it disagree with. Must follow some of the links later.

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Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiers

Unicef bombed the Smurf village in a new ad campaign to raise money. This has been doing the rounds for a few days and as one Metafilter userpointed out, “what’s sadder, bombed smurfs…or the fact that people are so unfased by bombed people that we have to resort to bombed smurfs…news at 11″. Says something [...]

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SQL Injection Attacks by Example

Ever wondered how some of your favourite apps get hacked and broken into? This page lists lots of examples of database “injections”. Like an injection you get off your doctor these bits of code inject database code into your application. The code can do anything – delete all your data, grab your passwords, or anything. [...]

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