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Six Questions To Ask Before Telecommuting

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Lucas123 writes “With gas prices 30% higher this summer over last, telecommuting is back on everyone’s radar. According to a Computerworld story, however, IT and telecommuting don’t have a great record of success. For example, citing negative impacts on productivity, HP ended its telecommuting policy for hundreds of workers two years ago, and this year, Intel began requiring more than half the teleworkers in its IT group to report to the office at least four days a week. So before leaping, some questions you should ask as a manager if you’re considering telework include: How will you define and measure performance? Will creativity suffer? What about employees stuck in the office?”

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Security 2.0 in Cincinnati

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:06 +0000

I’ll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizabeth Naramore is kindly hosting me, so I’ll be able to fraternize after the meeting, which is always the best part of any user group.

This talk is one of the least PHP-specific talks I give, so if you’re in the area and interested in learning a bit more about evolving trends in web application security, I hope you’ll join us. In case it helps convince you, here’s the talk description:

Web 2.0 has been described as many things. It’s the Web as a platform, a network of networks, the architecture of participation. However you choose to define it, the way we build applications online has changed. Web sites do more by empowering users, but this has opened a Pandora’s box. Cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgeries (CSRF), and Ajax are being combined in creative new ways to launch sophisticated attacks that penetrate firewalls, target users, and spread like worms.

This talk examines this new threat, dubbed Security 2.0, by demonstrating some hypothetical and real exploits as well as discussing methods of safeguard and prevention.

The meeting takes place at Bridge Worldwide, who happen to have a nice map on their site. As far as I can tell, their office is located on the word Cincinnati (on Google Maps), so it must be smack in the middle of the city.

I might bring an extra copy or two of Essential PHP Security to give away, and you will receive a copy of the slides of my tutorial of the same name as a token of appreciation for sharing your time with us. I have also heard unconfirmed reports that there will be pole dancing.

I hope to see you there.

Posted Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:06 GMT in Chris Shiflett’s Blog

A Mozilla Plugin to Help Overcome IE Rendering Flaw

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:11:00 +0000

least_weasel writes "An article on Ars Technica reveals Mozilla's intention to create and release a plugin for Internet Explorer that would allow the often-criticized IE to utilize some of the cooler rendering code developed for Firefox. The current WIP focuses on rendering using HTML5 standards, but the plans seem to be more ambitious than just fixing this one small piece of IE. The article covers some of the plans, hurdles, and potential benefits. It also spills the beans on the code name for the project: Screaming Monkey."

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How Do I Prevent Lan Party Theft?

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:24:00 +0000

DragonTHC writes “I’m thinking about hosting a lan party open to the public. I’m aiming for approximately 60 people to attend. I can handle all the logistics of operation. The only thing I can’t wrap my head around is: how do I prevent theft at the lan party? Do I hire security guards? Do I need security cameras? I don’t know the people who will attend, and I don’t know if they’re trustworthy enough to not steal other people’s equipment. What do I do?”

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Cloud Computing Expo - IBM To Offer Cloud Cover

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:45:00 +0000

IBM’s going to peel off another $300 million and sink the money into building 13 clouds scattered in 10 countries around the world where business and government can tuck their data and applications against disaster and destruction.

Avnet Announces Services To Help Sun Microsystems Partners Capitalize on the Growing Virtualization Market

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:30:00 +0000

Avnet Technology Solutions announced services designed to assist Sun partners in targeting the virtualization market and creating incremental revenue opportunities. The services will focus on enabling Sun partners to demonstrate how virtualization solves key business challenges and the benefits it provides. Avnet Technology Solutions' services include Avnet OneTech server assessments, seminars, technical and financial support, partner training and enablement, business development, demand generation, continuing education, and solutions partnering and development.

A Sneak Peak at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET 4.0. To see how the new functionality stacks up, I decided to recreate my recent jTemplates example, using only ASP.NET AJAX and its new templating features. Eventually, I settled on using the DataView class, which offers more advanced, repeater-like functionality.

Curl Releases New Web-Based Training Courses

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:00 +0000

Curl announced the availability of three interactive training courses based on the Curl Web-Based Training (CurlWBT), a standards-based e-learning framework implemented in the Curl language that supports the deployment of Web-based training materials for the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) Platform. These courses are available to members of the Curl Developer Community, helping them further shorten the already minimal learning curve for building enterprise-class RIAs using Curl.

My Job Went To India

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:11:00 +0000

Josh Skillings writes "The author, Chad Fowler, draws upon his experiences as a software engineer, a team leader over a group of Indian developers, and as a jazz musician, to describe 52 ways or tips that will help you to become a more valuable employee. These tips are described in two or three pages each, and are usually illustrated by a practical example or story. The tips are well thought-out, well-explained and make sense. Chad draws upon the open source movement as well, highlighting ways that contributing to and learning from open source can improve your career. These tips gave me greater respect and appreciation for the open source movement in general." Read on for the rest of Josh's review.

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Advanced Millennium Technologies to Distribute Lightstreamer’s COMET Products in India

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:25:00 +0000

Advanced Millennium Technologies (AMT) has inked a partnership agreement with Lightstreamer. According to the agreement, AMT will distribute Lightstreamer push technology (COMET) products in the fast growing Indian Market. Lightstreamer is a push server for live data distribution based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm (also known as “AJAX Push”). In web development, COMET is a term used to describe a web application model in which a web server is able to push real-time data to a browser, based on a subscription paradigm. Lightstreamer is one of the oldest products used widely for COMET implementations.