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Original post provide by Latest News from AJAX & RIA JOURNALAsynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) combine proven technologies including JavaScript, Extensible Markup Language (XML), dynamic HTML (DHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and the Document Object Model (DOM) to enable the delivery of interactive Web applications. AJAX-based Web applications no longer have to reprocess and resend the entire Web page to the end user’s browser every time anything changes on the page.
Previous Articles:Citizens Spy On Big Brother
An anonymous reader writes "Citizens of the world are striking back at 24/7 state surveillance by pulling out their cameraphones and filming inept officials, deadly healthcare lapses and thuggish cops. So-called Sous-veillance is seeing more and more people posting damning footage of official misdemenours to sites such as YouTube to shame them into action." I wonder what happens if you inform a cop that you are recording him when he pulls you over.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization
Qumranet announced a report published by analyst firm Ovum. The report, "Qumranet's Solid ICE Anchors Effective Hosted Desktop Virtualization," provides an overview of desktop virtualization as well as opportunities and challenges for Qumranet in this space. read more
Misconfiguration Named Number One Security Risk To Virtualization Environments
According to the survey report, "Is Virtualization Under Control: Current Opinions on Security and Controls for Virtual Servers in Production Environments," virtualization has clearly gained a lasting foothold. However, who shoulders the responsibility for ensuring that security and controls are implemented across virtual infrastructure is open for debate, varying greatly between functional groups.
Cuil Proves The Bubble Is Back
A doctor calls round each Friday, after the weekly barbeque, to see if everyone's in good health. Employees drift in an out at times that suit themselves." Seems like an awesome place to work, but how long will their $25 million VC funding last at this rate?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Ocolorize
Package: Ocolorize Summary: Format text with tags as colored HTML or BBCode Groups: HTML, Text processing Author: Abdulrahman Muhammad Description: This class can be used to format text with tags as colored HTML or BBcode tags. It can take a given text string with special tags and replace them with HTML or BBCode marks that make the text appear with different colors.
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OSCON Wrapup
(Sleep is optional and not recommended.) The OmniTI family (Message Systems included) was well represented with a number of speakers and talks: Chris Shiflett Experience-Driven Development: Designers and Developers Working in Harmony Security 2.0: Emerging Trends in Web Application Security David Gray How I Learned to Love Revision Control Luke Welling PHP Taint Tool: It Ain't a Parser Mike Hillyer How to be Normal: A Guide for Developers Robert Treat Pro PostgreSQL Theo Schlossnagle Full-Stack Introspection Crash Course Wez Furlong Hot Chocolate: Creating Cocoa Apps with PHP PDO: PHP Data Objects PHP Extension Writing Experience-Driven Development is a talk I gave with Jon Tan, and we explored ways designers and developers can collaborate better to create a better user experience, and thereby create a better web site.
Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing
BIOS updates that turn the laptop fan on more frequently or permanently have been released by Dell and HP. The cynical interpretation is that this is likely to only delay the problem until the warranty has expired."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Image_jpg
Package: image_jpg Summary: Manipulate JPEG images Groups: Graphics Author: Logan Bailey Description: This class can be used to manipulate images. It can load JPEG images from files or remote URL. The class perform several image manipulation operations like adding borders and resize images.
Sun Microsystems Lance Son Pack AMP
Sun microsystems vient d'annoncer la disponibilité de son pack AMP pour systèmes d'exploitation Solaris et Linux. Ce pack est constitué du serveur HTTP Apache, du système de gestion de base de données MySQL et du langage PHP (et PERL). Le pack est disponible en téléchargement sur le site de Sun.
Apple Patches Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability
Alexander Burke writes "Apple has just released Security Update 2008-005, which patches BIND against the Kaminsky DNS poisoning issue. 'This update addresses the issue by implementing source port randomization to improve resilience against cache poisoning attacks. For Mac OS X v10.4.11 systems, BIND is updated to version 9.3.5-P1.