September 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.

(tags: unix netcat linux networking security utilities)

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.

(tags: css standards design web webdesign article xhtml html)

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.

(tags: authentication authorization security infocard java php .net browser)

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)

(tags: architecture architect roles tss ea)

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.

(tags: Security sql injection Hacking database programming web testing xss)

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.

(tags: rails Ruby Enterprise dave+thomas scalability)

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

(tags: amazon it google datacenter soa WebServices)

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.

(tags: google database distributed bigtable storage research technology scalability Cluster)

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

(tags: nas backup engadget gigabit raid)

Carbonite Online Backup

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)

(tags: amazon backup s3 software windows utilities carbonite storage online tools internet)

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

(tags: bea weblogic beaworld web2.0 graffiti runner builder aqualogic)