Sunday, January 23, 2005

Tom's Hardware Guide Peripherals & Consumer Electronics: Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player! - Hard Drive Case Mutates Into Di

Tom's Hardware Guide Peripherals & Consumer Electronics: Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player! - Hard Drive Case Mutates Into DivX And DVD Player: "Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player! Created:
January 6, 2005 By:
Siggy Moersch"

Hard Drive Case Mutates Into DivX And DVD Player

External USB hard drive boxes are useful, but lack the ability to directly play video and audio data on a television; they require a PC. This means that until now, you always had to burn saved films or MP3 files on blank discs to be able to play them with a DVD player. But with the new Modix HD-3510 box, you can eliminate this step and play the files directly from the hard disk you installed yourself.

mozdev.org - portablefirefox: index

mozdev.org - portablefirefox: index: "Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more (Note: It will not run from read-only media like a CD-R)."

Google Blog

Google Blog: "Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Preventing comment spam
If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like 'Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.' This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel='nofollow') on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. "

Saturday, January 22, 2005

PHPAdvisory.com - PHP Information Source

PHPAdvisory.com - PHP Information Source: "The Cross Site Scripting FAQ
By: cgisecurity.com
Currently small informational tidbits about Cross Site Scripting holes exist but none really explain them to an average person or administrator. This FAQ was written to provide a better understanding of this emerging threat, and to give guidance on detection and prevention."

Looks like a good article from a good site ... a site to keep an eye on for PHP based security info.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

ONJava.com: Streaming QuickTime with Java

ONJava.com: Streaming QuickTime with Java: "Streaming QuickTime with Java
by Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
01/12/2005

This isn't an excerpt from my soon-to-be-released QuickTime for Java book, though now I wish it was.

You see, the thing is, a lot of us in the QTJ world had long assumed that the streaming APIs in QTJ were broken, and I didn't want to commit to covering something that was broken. OK, I went ahead and did so by covering capture, which various people got working through different techniques, but I didn't want to do it twice."

MAC only code. Humpf.

BigAdmin Submitted Article: Quad Boot With Windows, Sun Java Desktop System, and the Solaris Operating System

BigAdmin Submitted Article: Quad Boot With Windows, Sun Java Desktop System, and the Solaris Operating System: "BigAdmin System Administration Portal
Community Submitted Article

Quad Boot With Windows, Sun Java Desktop System, and the Solaris Operating System

January, 2005

This reader-submitted article shows you how to do a quad boot with Windows, two instances of the Java Desktop System, and the Solaris 10 Operating System.

A detailed table covers preparation; installing the Solaris 10 OS; installing Java Desktop System, Release 2; and completion. A list of related references is also offered.

You may want to try a quad boot because it enables you to continue using your Linux machine while you are testing or exploring new features in Linux or installing the next release of the Java Desktop System. By having two instances of Linux, you can make mistakes with one and still have a safety net."

Using JConsole to Monitor Applications

Using JConsole to Monitor Applications: "Article
Using JConsole to Monitor Applications

By Mandy Chung, December 2004

The Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 release provides comprehensive monitoring and management support. It not only defines the management interfaces for the Java virtual machine, but also provides out-of-the-box remote monitoring and management on the Java platform and of applications that run on it. In addition, JDK 5.0 includes the Java Monitoring and Management Console (JConsole) tool. It uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java virtual machine to provide information on performance and resource consumption of applications running on the Java platform using Java Management Extension (JMX) technology."

Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform

Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform: "Article
Five Reasons to Move to the J2SE 5 Platform

By Calvin Austin, January 4, 2005

This article provides five important reasons to move to the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE platform) 5.0. Each reason is supported by data and references to prove that the 5.0 release will reduce development and runtime costs."

Mastering J2EE Application Development Series

Mastering J2EE Application Development Series: "Open standards are driving the trends for modern IT software infrastructures. At the center of the open standards world is J2EE. In this new multi-week series, OTN will give you a taste of the full spectrum of technical issues related to the simplification of the J2EE development lifecycle, from project conception, to deployment, to the release process. Most important, it will include descriptions of real-world experiences from J2EE experts and engineers who have built the foundation for J2EE itself. Most articles include a fully functional example application deployable on the Oracle suite of products. Topics range from modeling and design, to the art of debugging, to optimizing/profiling your code."

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Developer Guide - Server Push and Server Sockets

Developer Guide - Server Push and Server Sockets: "Server Push and Server Sockets

This section will describe how to send data to Mozilla from other sources."

Use of multipart/x-mixed-replace and XMLHttpRequest

Sunday, January 02, 2005

ONJava.com: The Hidden Gems of Jakarta Commons, Part 1

ONJava.com: The Hidden Gems of Jakarta Commons, Part 1: "he Hidden Gems of Jakarta Commons, Part 1
by Timothy M. O'Brien
12/22/2004

If you are not familiar with the Jakarta Commons, you have likely reinvented a few wheels. Before you write any more generic frameworks or utilities, grok the Commons. It will save you serious time. Too many people write a StringUtils class that duplicates methods available in Commons Lang's StringUtils, or developers unknowingly recreate the utilities in Commons Collections even though commons-collections.jar is already available in the classpath. Seriously, take a break. Check out the Commons Collections API and then go back to your task; I promise you'll find something simple that will save you a week over the next year. If people just took some time to look at Jakarta Commons, we would have much less code duplication--we'd start making good on the real promise of reuse. I've seen it happen; somebody digs into Commons BeanUtils or Commons Collections and invariably they have a 'Oh, if I had only known about this, I wouldn't have written 10,000 lines of code' moment. There are still parts of Jakarta Commons that remain a mystery to most; for instance, many have yet to hear of Commons CLI or Commons Configuration, and most have yet to notice the valuable functors package in Commons Collections. In this series, I emphasize some of the less-appreciated tools and utilities in the Jakarta Commons."

O'Reilly: Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X

O'Reilly: Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X: "Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X
by Erica Sadun
12/22/2004

Every few months or so, clients or readers approach me asking how to export QuickTime video directly to a VCR or DVD recorder without going through iMovie or Final Cut. Their desire to bypass editing software is a rational one: they just want to hit Play with no fuss or editing involved. Fortunately for them, Apple provides a simple and elegant solution."

ONJava.com: Towards Bug-Free Code

ONJava.com: Towards Bug-Free Code: "Towards Bug-Free Code
by Ashwin Jayaprakash
12/22/2004

'Bug-free code.' Well, that's a bold statement to make about one's code. In August 2004, Mozilla announced that it would offer $500 for every serious bug found by security researchers. I wouldn't dare to make such a claim about my code on a regular basis, or I'd be broke in a month. However, if we make good use of some of the basic idioms and rules of thumb of design and programming, we can take a step closer towards software with fewer bugs. Any programmer worth his or her salt will agree that lately, design patterns have been overused to the point that the programmers start off directly with advanced patterns, while being completely ignorant of basic rules."

ONJava.com: ONJava 2004 in Review: Editor's Choice

ONJava.com: ONJava 2004 in Review: Editor's Choice: "ONJava 2004 in Review: Editor's Choice
by Chris Adamson, ONJava Editor
12/29/2004

The previous installment of 'ONJava 2004 in Review' took a look back at some of the most popular feature articles to appear on the site this year. This second part presents an 'Editor's Choice' list of some impressive writing that deserves a second look before closing the books on the year."

ONJava.com: ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles

ONJava.com: ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles: "ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles
by Chris Adamson
12/22/2004

As we race to the end of another year, it seems well worth our time to consider the developments in the Java realm in 2004. The biggest development of the year was, of course, the release of J2SE 5.0, which ushered in the most significant changes in Java programming in years. We've tried to cover 5.0 in both the big picture, with book excerpts on the major new features, and in the unique niches that developers are turning up by combining generics, attributes, and other new features."

LinuxDevCenter.com: Clever Tricks with MythTV

LinuxDevCenter.com: Clever Tricks with MythTV: "lever Tricks with MythTV
by John Littler
12/29/2004

MythTV is one open source answer to TiVo. Its creator started the project because he thought that the TiVo was cheap enough, but having to sign up for subscriptions was a pain. MythTV allows you to record and play TV and skip ads; and with plugins, retrieve TV schedules, play DVDs, emulate a Nintendo, check weather forecasts, play Linux Games, read RSS feeds, play music, and more."