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[RSnake] has developed a denial of service technique that can take down servers more effectively. Traditionally, performing a denial of service attack entailed sending thousands of requests to a server, these requests needlessly tie up resources until the server fails. This repetitive attack requires the requests to happen in quick succession, and is usually a distributed effort. However, … [Read more...]
[Cal Henderson] delivered a keynote titled Why I Hate Django at the first annual DjangoCon. Django is an open source BSD licensed web framework written in Python. Google has posted the keynote in its entirety to YouTube, which you can find embedded above. While the talk is humorous (and takes many jabs at Rails developers) it does provide insight into what makes a good web framework. [Cal] is … [Read more...]
[Dominiek ter Heid] wanted to prototype an application for the iPhone that incorporated GPS. He experimented, and came up with a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a web application that would push GPS information to his iPhone through the use of JavaScript and AJAX. This tutorial will save web hackers who want to play with the iPhone 3G a lot of grief. Using Cocoa Touch, and a CSS/JavaScript … [Read more...]
[Nick] sent in his quick hack for getting rid of extra menu options in Firefox 3, like the ever useless 'Work Offline' option. (OK, maybe modem lovers like it...) If you're tired of seeing cluttered menu choices that you never use, [Nick]'s simple trick of editing the XML formatted XUL files in Firefox to clean things up. There's some risk involved, but it's nothing that a quick re-install can't … [Read more...]
Whenever [sprite_tm] sends in his latest project, it's like getting a Christmas present and a night off. He put together a whiteboard, x/y stepper system, serial interfaced microcontroller and added a webcam with perspective correction for the online view. Me? I'm tempted to build one of these for leaving notes for the wife when I'm out. … [Read more...]
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