Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Security
Hack into a computer, and you get to keep it. This was the challenge at CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 last March 26-28. There were three computers that were presented for this contest:
Sony VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10
Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1
MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2
The purpose of this contest was to reveal possible vulnerabilities in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Applications
The much anticipated WordPress 2.5 was released two days ago. I’ve been trying to find the time to make the upgrade since its quite an effort making upgrades on this blog. I have to backup the WordPress files and database which takes about 30 minutes. Its always a good idea to make these backups in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: General
Most web sites today are built the traditional way using a web design tool like Dreamweaver. Each page of the web site is an individual file, which can be .html, .php, .aspx, or some other extension. Any changes or additions to these pages are done by editing the page directly.
The problem with creating web sites [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 16 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Reviews
AJAX is the next step in the evolution of modern web design. It’s a technology which takes a boring, static web page and adds a rich set of tools which allows content to change without reloading the page. The kind of functionality AJAX brings are things like validating form data without reloading the page, drag [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 11 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
According to this video broadcast, Microsoft is getting 1.5 million downloads per day of Silverlight. This new web technology is Microsoft’s answer to Flash. It makes the same promises in being cross-platform, cross-browser, and cross-device as Flash does. From a casual glance, Silverlight seems to be very similar to what Flash can do.
Will this technology [...]
