While at MIX, I learned about the Microsoft Translator. It’s a website widget you add on your site and allows your visitors to select their preferred language and then translates the page into that language. I had a wordpress plugin at one time that did this but quit using it (I don’t recall why, I […]
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Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield did a fantastic job of creating a deep zoom collage of all of the frontpages collected from 11/5/2008 by Newseum. You can see it here: http://bigpicture.vertigo.com/obama/
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Microsoft released another update to Deep Zoom Composer on August 3rd. The latest build of Deep Zoom Composer includes a feature that generators the silverlight code for you and also support photo-stitching. Photo-stitching is where you take multiple pictures and stitch them together to create a panoramic photo. Deep Zoom is the seadragon technology from
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The number of SQL Injection attacks across the Internet continue to rise. I’m seeing regular posting on the SANS RSS feed related to SQL Injection and XSS these days and clients are finding that applications they thought were not vulnerable turn out to be vulnerable because of patches and custom mods they’ve had made to
SQL Injection Help .. Microsoft to the rescue with URLScan 3.0. Read More »
With the new addition to the family I’ve got a renewed interest in taking photographs (and video) and ofcourse sharing them. Yeah, I’m one of those Dads. So today I wanted to crop a image for William’s website (yeah, not even 5 days old and he’s already got his own website at http://williamcoburn.net ). The
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The folks over at Early Impact (makers of ProductCart) have released a tool to help remove JavaScript code from a SQL database that may have been hacked as part of the SQL Injection attacks taking place today on the Internet. Here’s the details from their newsletter and a link to the SQL query you can
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My previous blog post attempted to explain SQL injection and why it’s a problem. It’s started to get media coverage now and the media is looking for a target (scapegoat). So as is often the case, someone gets wrongly blamed and right now it’s of course Microsoft. It’s NOT Microsoft’s fault. Here’s what’s happening, recently
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It’s a shame but not many website owners or for that matter, web developers are familiar with what SQL Injection is and just why it’s something they need to worry about. I’m noticing through various forums, friends, etc an increased number of sites being exploited for Cross Site Scripting through SQL Injection. Most blog readers
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I recently blogged about my new productivity device (AKA my new toy), an AT&T Tilt. I’ve been using a Motorola Q for years and missed the capabilities of a PDA phone (like the Tilt) versus a a smart phone (like the Q). The Q had superior voice quality and a better overall phone experience but
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I’m Vegas bound once again. . . . Seems I was just there in November?!?! This trip though is all business (yeah.. uh huh in Vegas . . . Keep telling yourself that Jess). Anyway, looks like MIX has sold out once again but if you’re heading to Vegas and want to meet up feel
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