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Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability

Safari users are at risk of littering their desktops with malicious software because the browser does not ask for user permission when downloading files. Read more »

Mozilla celebrates 10th birthday with a security flaw

The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating what it regards as its 10th anniversary this week. Read more »

With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed

Mozilla officially released Firefox 2, adding security features and a new interface. Read more »

Macromedia's troubles freeing Flash

The software maker faces challenges in getting developers to support Central, a year-old plan to free its Flash format from dependence on a browser. Read more »

Google reveals Chrome security patch details

Earlier today, Google was keeping mum about a three-day-old security fix to its Chrome browser, but now the company has revealed details of two critical-risk vulnerabilities and some lesser issues it says are fixed. Read more »

Security flaw discovered in latest Firefox update

Vulnerability researcher Ronald van den Heetkamp published a directory traversal flaw in Firefox version 2.0.0.12, just hours after Mozilla release the latest version of its browser. Read more »

Windows XP SP3 upgrade spells trouble for IE

Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned. Read more »

Microsoft launches IE-enhanced Windows Mobile 6.1

Microsoft has officially announced version 6.1 of its Windows Mobile operating system. Read more »

Sony continues supplying rootkit-like software

Sony continues to distribute software containing a rootkit-like cloaking technology, which security firms say could be used by criminals to hide malware, from its Web site. Read more »

Firefox add-on Greasemonkey slips up

The Mozilla Foundation is making available an update for a critical security flaw in Greasemonkey, an extension to the Firefox browser. Read more »

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How do I ... recursively scan directories with PHP's DirectoryIterators?

One of PHP5's most interesting new features is the addition of Iterators, a collection of ready-made interfaces designed to help in navigating and processing hierarchical data structures. Read more »

Manipulating ASP.NET 2.0 browser support

ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to address browser support through browser configuration files. This set of files defines the capabilities for specific browsers. Read more »

Test Web pages in multiple browser versions

One of the challenges that Web builders face is testing their Web pages in various browsers. This article shows you a simple way to test your Web pages in multiple browser versions. Read more »

Work around XForms' lack of browser support

XForms offers a way to implement Web forms, but most browsers don't support it. Use the Java Framework and Chiba to process server side XForms. Read more »

Checking Web pages with HTML::Lint

If you want to ensure consistent pages across multiple browsers, it's a good idea to check the syntax. We'll show you how to use this powerful syntax-checking tool. Read more »

Modify data in an LDAP directory

LDAP is perhaps one of the largest growing database technologies available for Linux due to its speed and its read-often, write-little design. We'll give you some quick pointers. Read more »

Consider running the browser service on Windows Server 2008 DCs

Although NetBIOS is reportedly on the way out, it is still a critical part of most Windows Server environments. This article explains why, in some configurations, the browser service should be running to facilitate NetBIOS. Read more »

Setting up directory security using ASP and IIS

Phillip Perkins was recently asked to create a solution for providing folder access and security on a Web site. Find out how he completed his assignment using code that worked for Windows 2000 Server with Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0. Read more »

10 questions to ask before migrating to Linux

If you're thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it -- but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step. Read more »

Build an AIR application for your website

Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »

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Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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