From the monthly archives:
September 2006
Daily del.icio.us for Sep 30, 2006
BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) facility so that existing Yahoo! users can use your services without having to complete yet another registration process.
Eclipse Ecosystem: Build versus collaborate
Bezos explains this behavior as organizations thinking their infrastructure or platform is part of their "secret sauce", but quickly get overwhelmed trying to keep current and trying to achieve homogeneity.
MySQL Performance Blog » What to tune in MySQL Server after installation
Even though you can tune quite a lot of variables in MySQL Servers only few of them are really important for most common workload
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 29, 2006
Roll your own servers with Netcat - Lifehacker
Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason. Like the best UNIX utilities, it's very simple but can perform all sorts of useful tasks.
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 26, 2006
A List Apart: Articles: 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
The cries of frustration I hear from other developers about CSS are only an echo of the ones I made for years. As a result I like to think that I can relate, and I'm writing to convey the most important lessons I've learned so far.
Brennan's Blog - Blog Archive - Shared Authentication for .NET, Java, PHP, Firefox, Safari, etc
As you look into how InfoCard works, you will see how it benefits from the proven public key encryption which makes SSL work.
sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand: Defining software architecture roles.
Marty Andrews has written "Defining software architecture roles," which describes what system architects, solution architects, and enterprise architects' actual roles are (via TheServerSide)
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 24, 2006
SecuriTeam - SQL Injection Walkthrough
The following article will try to help beginners with grasping the problems facing them while trying to utilize SQL Injection techniques, to successfully utilize them, and to protect themselves from such attacks.
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Essential Software for Windows
You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can’t seem to find it.
I recently bought a new computer and decided to make a list of all the software I installed on the new computer so that I’m ready to do this again for my next machine. I wish I had discovered Belarc Advisor before I rebuilt my old desktop as a Linux (Ubuntu) desktop. So here is a fairly complete list of what’s installed on my machine and if you see something that I should have, please leave me a comment:
The Essentails
Development
Audio, Video & Graphics
Browsers & Extensions
Utilities
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 20, 2006
Geek Smithology - The State of Enterprise Ruby
The real takeaway is that if you truly believe in using the best tool for the job, then you will be using Ruby at some point in the future.
StorageMojo - Mission Impossible: Managing Amazon's Datacenter, Pt I
Unlike Goole�s clean sheet approach to creating internet-class infrastructure, Amazon has made every mistake in the book. The original site was one hairball, database, OLTP and web server all on one system
Google Research Publication: BigTable
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 18, 2006
HP Media Vault — NAS we go again - Engadget
The HP Media Vault, a run of the mill RAID 0/1 unit coming in either 300GB / $379 (with one empty bay) or 500GB / $549 (with one empty bay) configurations. It'll also feature gigabit Ethernet, three USB ports, and expandability up to 1.2TB
Carbonite will automaticlaly backup your PC over the Internet for $5 per month with encryption. Wonder if they are using Amazon S3 under the covers? (via TechCrunch)
BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise | InfoWorld | News | 2006-09-18 | By Paul F. Roberts
Graffiti, Runner, and Builder will add social bookmarking to BEA's portals and will give non-IT staff the tools to create blogs, wikis, and other lightweight applications that tap into BEA�s service infrastructure
