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jQuery and Microsoft

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 09-28-2008
Cross-Site Request Forgeries and You

As the web becomes more and more pervasive, so do web-based security vulnerabilities. I talked a little bit about the most common web vulnerability, cross-site scripting, in Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly . Although XSS is incredibly dangerous, it's a fairly straightforward exploit to understand...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
Biden: National Guard head deserves ’seat at the table’ with Joint Chiefs.

Today, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) spoke to the National Guard Association Conference. Noting that more than half of the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been National Guard members or reservists, Biden declared, “Your voice needs to be heard.” He said that Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You can download the new release here . This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently released .NET 3.5 SP1. It can also now be...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 09-02-2008
Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly

So I have this friend. I've told him time and time again how dangerous XSS vulnerabilities are , and how XSS is now the most common of all publicly reported security vulnerabilities -- dwarfing old standards like buffer overruns and SQL injection. But will he listen? No. He's hard headed. He...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
XML: The Angle Bracket Tax

Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML . Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and parsed, it's probably XML. I realize that we...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 05-12-2008
Silverlight FlickR Example

In this example I will demonstrate a very simple call to the FlickR REST APIs from a Silverlight client. At the end we will end up with an app that looks like this: Part 1. Define some Silverlight UI Part 2. Show the local open file dialog support Part 3. Call the FlickR Service to find a picture Part...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-25-2008
Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls

One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes (either a Control base class or from a control...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-04-2008
Check out Augustana's new single!

Hey everyone! <a href="www.augustanamusic.com"> Click here </a> to Check out the new Augustana single "Sweet and Low" off their upcoming 2008 release!

Posted to Rock by Anonymous on 04-01-2008

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