Monthly Archives: August 2008
- August 25, 2008
- Gmail hacking tool – do you access your email securely?
Stumbled upon this article today detailing a Gmail hacking tool presented at the Defcon hackers’ conference in Las Vegas which will be released in a week or so. While news about the insecurity of accessing personal information without using encryption is really nothing new it serves as a timely reminder to secure ALL information you [...]
- August 22, 2008
- MySQL aliases (just like table names) are case sensitive on *nix
As you might know when using MySQL on a case-sensitive OS (like Linux) you must reference your table names in a case sensitive manner. So if you have a table called products the following sample query will NOT work: It won’t work because MySQL stores the table information in directories on the file system, therefore [...]
- August 16, 2008
- 2 cool things about Railo
Session management: If an application/session scope is defined with the tag <CFAPPLICATION …> or the application.cfc, in Railo it will not automatically exist. Only when the scope is used for the first time it will be created. If the scope is not used, it won’t be created either. This is really good news. Many people [...]
- August 16, 2008
- FarCry 5 running on Railo 3 (Windows)
The CFML market is hotting up with Railo going open source (in version 3.1) and joining forces with JBoss for an end of 2008 release! With that in mind I figured it was time to check out Railo with the latest version of FarCry. My environment: Windows XP Railo 3.0.0.003 FarCry 5.0.0 (although 5.0.2 is [...]
- August 13, 2008
- getmooh – automated callback service
Looking to escape from a date or to get out of any sticky social situation? Try this free online automated callback service called getmooh. It is designed to help you escape a variety of situations by calling you automatically on your phone at a pre-specified time and playing you a recording which will either instruct [...]