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Test browser compatability with multiple versions of IE

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in web | No Comments »

Although in the past it has not always been the case, these days you must test your sites against multiple browsers for compatibility and proper rendering.  At a bare minimum my test are against IE 7, IE 6, FireFox 2, ...

Debug your javascript in style

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

So basically today I wanted to plug a plug-in (no pun intended) that I have really found to be invaluable to debug javascript.  The plug-in is firebug for FireFox.  In my recent dive into Dojo words cannot describe how convenient and ...

My first thoughts on Dojo

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

There is a little known (to me) javascript library out there called Dojo I dove into this week.  Basically it is a massive open source javascript library focused on UI and AJAX.  So visiting their website(very nicely done btw) and ...

Microsoft IIS blamed for mass SQL injection attacks

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in coding, web | No Comments »

So in the past week slashdot has made two post over this including many other sites.  Apparently there is a bot running the net attempting sql injection on a specific brand of sites.  Nothing to write home about correct?  This one ...

Why budget webhosting sucks

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in web | No Comments »

It has been my experience when it comes to web-hosting you simply get what you pay for.  This post comes on the heals of one of my ecommerce sites I started  being down yet again today.  The issues revolve around and around, ...

Cross Site Scripting attack from botnet

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in web | No Comments »

The last few weeks I have noticed some odd activity across all of our websites.  A single IP will crawl all our the pages in the site and attempt to inject a URL into the forms.  After some google searches for the offending ...