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Posted by on 11th November, 2003

Recalling Voyager

By now should have heard the news that Voyager has reached the edge of the solar system, although many scientist dispute that statement. In any case, you may also know about the golden records that are onboard each one of the Voyagers (I and II). I had known about the records and their purpose, but never really researched the actual content…..untill now. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has this Flash presentation displaying the contents of the records. I will keep the details of my opinion to myself but I think the Voyager needs to be recalled immediately, before anyone out there happens to find it… I am from this world, and believe have half a brain and I am not sure I would be able to figure out, by looking solely at the engravings, that the needle placed on the spinning disk would produce some sort of visible images. And then the images they picked….! But then again, I am just a sofware developer…what do I know?. Check...

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Posted by on 9th November, 2003

Visual Studio .NET Documentation Update

Microsoft has updated the Visual Studio .NET 2003 documentation to include over 5,000 additional code examples for C++, C# and VB.NET, bug fixes, improved content and additional clarifications. You will need Windows 2000 or XP, VS.NET 2003 and MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Plus a fairly decent connection since it's an 80Mb download. Grab the files here:...

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Posted by on 6th November, 2003

Meet people with same interests

Ofcourse there are the known software usergroups, but here are many more topics than computer stuff….(yes, there actually is more in life than programming!) Meetup is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere. You will be surprised how many people are meeting in your area with similar interest in a similar topic you like. Check it out:...

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Posted by on 5th November, 2003

Google it right

Google can return a ton of hits for any query you make. To make the search really efficient, the trick is to tell Google how to scope the search so that instead of getting a billion results, you get the 100 best. In order to scope things better, Google has set up special search groups for specific topics, including information for Microsoft, Apple Macintosh, BSD, Linux, and the U.S. Government. For instance, when you search from http://www.google.com/microsoft.html, your query will be run only on sites that have predominantly Microsoft content. To use the specific sites, point your browser at...

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Posted by on 5th November, 2003

Simple noise encryption

A simple explanation by Adrien and Peter Stuff on how to encrypt information in noise images using simple tools you already have. Quite interesting…...

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Posted by on 20th October, 2003

Cross Site Scripting with Java applets exploit

Article by Marc Schoenefeld on cross site through Java applets. Unsigned applets coming from different sites may share data areas via undocumented static variables of the jdk. While altering these variables JDK internal states may become corrupt and functionality is no longer. This especially concerns XML processing which depends on the org.apache.xalan.processor.XSLProcessorVersion class. This behavior violates the isolation restriction of the sandbox....

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Posted by on 19th October, 2003

Protecting database connectionstrings

Protecting application secrets, such as database connection strings and passwords, requires careful consideration of a number of pertinent factors. This article explains the fundamentals of data protection and compares a variety of techniques that can be used to protect application settings. Check it out here:...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2003

Highlight your code with this online tool

How many times have you needed to post a piece of code in HTML and manually had to color and highlight the classes, methods and properties? Well, suffer no more….this tool will work for C#, VB.NET, J# and SQL in the first place, but AS and other languages will work as well. Let's see how long it takes for someone to come up with one for Actionscript. Try it out here:...

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Posted by on 1st October, 2003

Web Services through Flash Remoting experiment

With all the buzz about a the new Flash 7 Player having cross domain restrictions for the built-in webservices component, it is a good thing that webservice accessibility in Flash MX is still available through Flash Remoting. This experiment shows 4 simple webservices in action with Flash Remoting in Flash MX Experiment here: Web Services through Flash Remoting...

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