Been having fun with Flash MX 2004 Pro, and using web services to update data components. I took the tutorial and here is the result:

Stock Quote App

This connects to the WSDL on SwanandMokashi.com. It then takes the output and displays it in a simple DataGrid component. Fun!

A good article on the basics of serving up content that is compressed before it is sent to a browser, saving bandwidth.

Read the article here.

An interesting article on the history and techniques of garbage collection has been posted on OS news. It describes the implementations in Java and .NET. It is a good overview with references to more specific content at the end.

Read the article here.

To do this, try this:

find * -mtime +480 -exec mv {} ../archive/ \;

This is a find all (*) in the current directory, with the time set to 480 days ago (-mtime +480) and then executing a move command (-exec mv) on the current file {} and move that file to ../archive/, with the last part (\;) means to do this for each match. You can change -exec .. to just -print and it will print out what was found (or -exec ls -la).

SecurityFocus has a good article on the most common forms of security vulnerabilities for e-commerce systems, but I think that a lot of web apps may be vulnerable to some of these as well (think sql injection, session hijacking, and so forth).

Here is the article on SecurityFocus.

One of the links at the bottom of the article is for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), an open forum to discuss web application security.

Check out OWASP here.

Here is a good article from Brandon Purcell (Macromedia) on setting up a couple of Windows 2003 servers with the built-in Network Load Balancing (NLB) for clustering Jrun/Coldfusion servers.

Read the article here.

I am totally doing this to my house: Check out the article here.

I am really tired of paying propane and electricity bills.

Check out these free video tutorials on the basics of ColdFusion and some more advanced concepts:

Here is the link to macromedia.

All the videos are done in Flash.

There is a good article over at CFDJ that describes the different character encodings for anyone having to add different language capabilities to their website.

Read the article here.

Even though this was posted on January 8, 2004, the root expiration of the Verisign certificate is still causing problems at my work.

Here is the slashdot story.

Here is the link to the Verisign explanation.

Here is how to fix it from Verisign.

A great article on why the current collaboration tools used are insufficient for their task, and what we can do about it.

Read the article here.

DMIDECODE: There is a great tool to dumping the computer’s DMI (SMBIOS) table information into human readable form.

Here is the link: www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

SCREEN: Also, there is a nice overview of what the command ’screen’ can do on a Linux system no Linux.com.

Read the article here.

SYSADMIN TOOLS: There is another good article on linux.com that has some interesting tools I don’t use.

Read the article here.

Found a great site that has a lot of beautiful CSS designs all using the same XHTML code, just different stylesheets. The designers are amazing, thinking of things I would never think of.

Go to www.csszengarden.com

A great article from SecurityFocus about using common *Nix tools to add layered security in front of MS Exchange and other vulnerable MS Groupware tools.

Here is part 2 of the series.