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Archive for April, 2009
Any Good Open Source Code Snippet Libraries?
I’ve been looking around the last few days for an open source code snippet library to put in place at my workplace. Most of the ones I came across by doing some searching either didn’t impress me or they had not been supported or updated in quite a few years. Does anyone know of or [...]
Facebook Finally Gets the Big Picture, Opens up API and Releases AIR App
It appears as though Facebook is finally getting the hint about it’s API. The company announced today they have released the Open Stream API. This new API will allow developers to take advantage of all kinds of Facebook features. This same openess has worked wonders for Twitter, and I am sure Facebook is hoping for [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Officially Released
Canonical officially announced the release of Ubuntu 9.04, previously code named Jaunty Jackalope. As with all Ubuntu releases you can download a desktop edition or a server edition. You can download your new version here. Geek.com covers some of the major highlights of the new release: OpenOffice 3.0 Latest Skype Latest Adobe Flash Faster boot [...]
UberTwitter, A New Twitter App for the Blackberry
For the past week or so I have been trying out a beta version of a new Twitter application on my Blackberry, called UberTwitter. So far I have liked what I have seen. Previously I had been using TwitterBerry, which is probably the most used Twitter app for the Blackberry out there. There were just [...]
Stunning Images From the Cassini Spacecraft
When you have a few spare minutes, check out this Boston.com photo gallery of some images taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. These are some amazing photos!
ColdFusion: Grab Yourself a TinyURL
I have been working on a new application the last few days and one of the requirements was to generate a short URL. There are many different URL shortening services out there today, but I decided to go with one of the original services, TinyURL. Although this service does not provide any sort of API, [...]
Adobe Flash Coming to a TV Near You
According to this article from CNET, Adobe will announce today that the next version of the Flash platform will allow it to be used on internet connected TV’s and other set top boxes. This includes Blu-ray players. Using Flash on these devices will allow users to see high-definition video, interactive applications and new user interfaces. [...]
Using jQuery and ASP.NET
I’ve been using jQuery quite a lot lately in my ColdFusion apps. I’ve been working on a .NET site and yesterday I needed to throw a little jQuery into that site. I quickly found that ASP.NET poses one issue when using jQuery or simple Javascript in the situations where you are performing an operation on [...]
Mythbusters Rocket Car Pancake
Wow, this looks way too cool….
Preventing XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Attacks in ColdFusion
With the recent issues Twitter has faced in recent days, I thought it would be important to show how you can prevent XSS attacks in ColdFusion. For a detailed explanation of what XSS is you can read a good summary here. So how can you protect against this type of attack? ColdFusion has some built [...]
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