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at The New York Times:
E-Mail Service Providers Unite in Bid to Stop Spam
- AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! are joining forces to fight against spam. (4/28/2003)
at XML.com:
All That We Can Leave Behind
- Changes in markup when you move to XHTML 2.0: no br tag, how to do navigational lists properly, etc. (4/16/2003)
at Search Engine Watch:
Making An RSS Feed
- A simple guide to creating RSS feeds from your content. (4/2/2003)
at Perl.com:
Apocalypse 6
- Larry Wall explains how he wants subroutines to work in Perl 6, and why. (3/7/2003)
at The Register:
Internet Battle Lines Drawn At Extraordinary Geneva Meeting
- A recap of the recent "Workshop on Member States' Experiences with ccTLDs" meeting, at which ICANN came under fire for its attempts to gain more control over worldwide Internet governance and policy. (3/6/2003)
at Wired News:
Klez Won't Stop Making Net Rounds
- The Klez virus and its variants, which debuted in April 2002, is still being spread by email users running MS Outlook on Windows PCs without sufficient anti-virus protection. (3/4/2003)
at Wired News:
Big Hole in E-Mail Transfer App
- Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Sendmail, Inc. announced that a security problem affecting all versions of sendmail after 5.79 has been discovered. (3/3/2003)
at SecurityFocus:
A Short History of Computer Viruses and Attacks
- A history of computer viruses and attacks, from 1945 to 2003. (2/14/2003)
at Perl.com:
Module::Build
- A look at Module::Build, a completely perl-based possible replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the standard module used for creating modules for CPAN. (2/12/2003)
at Mercury Center:
How the Tech Crash Became a Generational Divide
- A series of articles looking at how tech workers in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s in Silicon Valley have been affected by the tech downturn. (2/9/2003)
at O'Reilly Network:
Stein on Bioinformatics
- A quick interview with Lincoln Stein on trends in bioinformatics. (1/28/2003)
at Slashdot.org:
MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc
- Discussion of the Microsoft SQL worm which slowed down Internet performance starting early morning, January 25th, 2003. (1/25/2003)
at Slashdot.org:
Cross-Site-TRACE
- Talk about the XST - cross-site-trace - security hole in HTTP, which allows unauthorized scripts to be passed to webservers for execution. (1/24/2003)
at Slashdot.org:
Helix Server Source Released
- User reaction to RealNetwork's release of the Helix DNA Server source code. (1/22/2003)
at Perl.com:
Screen-Scraping With WWW::Mechanize
- "Mechanize allows you to go to a URL and explore the site, following links by name, taking cookies, filling in forms and clicking 'submit' buttons. We're also going to use HTML::TokeParser to process the HTML we're given back..." (1/22/2003)
at Siliconvalley.com:
Internet Content in Peril in Non-competitive World
- "The United States is lunging toward a short-to-medium-term future in which one or two companies in any given community will decide what gets delivered, or how quickly or reliably, on the vast majority of high-speed data connections." (1/21/2003)
at Yahoo News:
Supreme Court Keeps Copyright Protections
- In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act; as a result, works from the 1920s will not now, and may never, enter the public domain. (1/15/2003)
at Wired News:
'Landmark' Accord on Copyrights
- "[Technology companies will] throw their support behind aggressive enforcement of digital piracy laws... [the RIAA] will argue against government requirements to build locking controls into entertainment devices..." (1/14/2003)
at Slashdot.org:
Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
- Discussion of the Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) list of the top 10 security vulnerabilities in web applications. (1/13/2003)
at Slashdot.org:
EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA
- Discussion of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's article "Unintended Consequences," reviewing the negative effects of the DMCA in its first four years of existence. (1/12/2003)
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Need a search engine for your website? ht://Dig is fast, pretty easy to use, and free. Find out how to use it in this guide, the first in a two-part series.
Don't you hate it when a robot goes through your site, pulls out all the email addresses, and delivers them to its spam-sending master? Find out how to stop spambots using PHP and Apache. (If PHP and Apache aren't your thing, you can probably adapt the methods here for your setup.)
The new edition of the Camel book, Programming Perl (by Larry Wall et al.), has been out for a few months. If you've been thinking about getting it, or are planning on learning Perl, be sure to read our review of the book.
Don't you hate it when a robot goes through your site, pulls out all the email addresses, and delivers them to its spam-sending master? Find out how to stop spambots using PHP and Apache. (If PHP and Apache aren't your thing, you can probably adapt the methods here for your setup.)
Spambot Survey
Spambots are robots that scour websites, looking for email addresses which the 'bot owners later send spam to (or sell lists of). Do you or your webmaster take steps to fight spambots? (See the results, if you've already answered.)
We've added more events to our conference calendar, with seminars and conventions through the beginning of 2001. Take a look...
A report on the keynotes from science-fiction author Dr. Gregory Benford and Eazel co-founder Andy Hertzfeld; thoughts from Brian Behlendorf, Paul Everitt, and Tim O' Reilly; and pictures from the sessions...
Thinking of migrating your website from PHP 3 to PHP 4? We take a look at some of the (few) incompatibilities between the two versions.
Time to look back at the predictions made by Tim Berners-Lee and Bob Metcalfe at WWW8 in 1999, and see if they've come true in the past year... (You can also check out coverage of open source and patent issues at the conference.)
What will happen to the web in the Year 2000. Politics, blogs, BSD, demographics, and software predictions...
Read the interview with Don Marti, webmaster for BurnAllGifs.org. He talks about Unisys' LZW patent, PNG as a replacement for GIF, and software patents in general.
Christmas Clip Art
Need to give your website a holiday look in a hurry? Download some Christmas clip art from out Freebies section - royalty-free buttons, bars, and images, all in gif format.
At the artist's request, this link was removed.
Domain Names Part II
How DNS Works
Find out how your computer translates host names into IP addresses and figures out where to send email and web page requests.
Elsewhere This Week
Links to interesting articles and tutorials you'll find elsewhere on the Web.
Teaching Web Development
Ever had trouble explaining basic Web concepts to someone learning HTML? Technical instructor Amy Poe discusses some of the common problems newbies have, and how to explain things to them.
Legal Books
for Web Developers
If you're curious about patent, copyright, and trademark issues, or want to know how to write a software development contract, check out the legal books in the ahref.com bookstore.
Darwin Among
The Machines
Read our review of George Dyson's book on the evolution of global intelligence. It won't help you do your job, but it will help you understand the world you're helping to build...
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