Google gives away free Web application security scanner
Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications. Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0... more »
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Fast prototyping and sketching with Pencil
Duong Thanh An, has just released Pencil, a simple and efficient open source tool to create user interface prototypes with native Windows and Linux... more »
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Running C and Python Code on The Web
Last week, Scott Petersen from Adobe gave a talk at Mozilla on a toolchain he’s been creating—soon to be open-sourced—that allows C code to be... more »
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Speaking UNIX: Just a few clicks
The way you interface with a computer is changing constantly. Operating systems that once started as a command line-only interface have moved to a... more »
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Don’t confuse bad Linux support for bad Linux
Anti-Linux evangelists try to level many claims against the free open source operating system Linux. Arguments against the base cost (nothing!) or... more »
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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets
In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private... more »
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Moonlight 0.7 is now Available
A new release of Moonlight is now available. The team has been working very hard on improving the performance of Moonlight as well as improving our... more »
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IE8 Security Part V: Comprehensive Protection
I’m excited to share with you details on the significant investments we’ve made in Security for Internet Explorer 8. As you might guess from the... more »
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IE8 Security Part IV: The XSS Filter
Today we are releasing some details on a new IE8 feature that makes reflected / “Type-1” Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities much more... more »
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IE8 Security Part III: SmartScreen® Filter
For Internet Explorer 8, we’ve built upon the success of the Phishing Filter feature (which blocks over a million phishing attacks weekly) to develop... more »
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We’re official!
The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from... more »
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OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts
Microsoft today unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new... more »
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Surprise Desktop Linux Move: Xandros Buys Linspire
Practical Technology has learned from several sources that Linspire, the San Diego, Calif-based Linux distributor is being bought out by Xandros, the... more »
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Powering a Web Revolution
What are the next set of tools that Firebug can introduce that will revolutionize its respective areas of development?
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Yahoo!'s Attitude Encouraging Zero Day Full Disclosure?
“Full vs responsible disclosure” is a potentially endless debate, but here we can see two different “corporate styles”, Yahoo!’s and Google’s,... more »
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Oracle-itis
I don't think Oracle is a totally worthless product. I hear that it's good for carrier-grade high-availability. Of course, I've also heard that it's... more »
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Java theory and practice: Going wild with generics, Part 2
Wildcards can be very confusing when it comes to generics in the Java language, and one of the most common mistakes is to fail to use one of the two... more »
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Next Generation Javascripting
But even as Javascript—as well as the HTML elements it has access to— continues to mature, the general perception of what these technologies enable do... more »
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Major Update to Weave Prototype, 0.2 Development Milestone
Weave is Mozilla Labs’ project to develop a coherent framework and platform for deeply integrating online services with the browser. Our goals are to... more »
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Running Oracle on AIX
This article drills down into the many aspects of tuning AIX to run Oracle. We'll look at the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), CPU, Memory, and I/O (disk... more »
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Wine development release 1.1.0 is now available
The Wine development release 1.1.0 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details)
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Book Review: Beginning Java SE 6 Platform
I've been reading Jeff Friesen's Beginning Java SE 6 Platform, From Novice to Professional for a couple of weeks now. I thought that David Flanagan's... more »
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The busy Java developer's guide to Scala: Collection types
Objects have their place in Scala, but so do functional types such as tuples, arrays, and lists. In this installment of Ted Neward's popular series,... more »
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Should developers charge for add-ons?
Believe me that working through all the little bugs your users find but often you can’t see is generally not much fun compared to the actual... more »
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KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Release Announcement
The KDE Community is proud to announce the second beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 2 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to... more »
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