Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem.
Internet explorer is a terrible thing. This can help. A little.
Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3
Topic: Technology
12:43 am EST, Jan 12, 2007
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3 Brief Description The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
Internet Explorer is a terrible, terrible thing. But hopefully this can help some. I have found firebug lite to be totally ineffective for IE 6.
Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari? If you are using console.log() to write to Firebug's console, you'll wind up with JavaScript errors in these other browsers, and that's no fun.
The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named "Firefox".
Wow, now you can sanely debug AJAX in IE and Safari as well as Firefox!
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The hype surrounding AJAX and security risks is hard to miss. Supposedly, this hot new technology responsible for compelling web-based applications like Gmail and Google Maps harbors a dark secret that opens the door to malicious hackers. Not exactly true. Even the most experienced Web application developers and security experts have a difficult time cutting through the buzzword banter to find the facts. And, the fact is most websites are insecure, but AJAX is not the culprit. Although AJAX does not make websites any less secure, it’s important to understand what does.
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript XML) is a combination of web browser technologies that allows web page content to be updated “on-the-fly” without the user moving from page to page. In the background of an AJAX-enabled web page, data (typically formatted in XML, but also HTML, JavaScript, etc.) is transferred to and from the web server. In the case of Gmail, new email messages are displayed as they arrive automatically. In Google Maps, a user may mouse-drag through street maps without visiting additional pages. The mechanism for performing asynchronous data transfers is a software library embedded in all modern web browsers called XMLHTTPRequest (XHR) . XHR is the key to a website earning the “AJAX” moniker. Otherwise, it’s just fancy JavaScript.
If you’re thinking that none of this sounds security related, you’re right. AJAX technology makes website interactivity smoother and more responsive. That’s it. Nothing changes on the web server, where security is supposed to reside. If that’s the case, then what is everyone talking about? Word on the cyber-street is that AJAX is the harbinger of larger attack surfaces, increased complexity, fake requests, denial of service, deadly cross-site scripting (XSS) , reliance on client-side security, and more. In reality, these issues existed well before AJAX. And, the recommended security best practices remain unchanged. If you’re like me, you want to know what’s really important, so let’s take a closer look.
I know a memestreamer is writing a book on this stuff, so I'm interested in his comments on this.
I was accepted into Sun’s Startup Essentials program today (nearly a month after I applied). As promised, I’m blogging the pricing.
The discounts on hardware are pretty good. There’s one low-end server that has no discount, but most products are in the 30%-50% off range. One server, a $70k behemoth, is a whopping 66% off.
Only servers and workstations are offered as part of the program. If you’re getting a workstation, you can add on things like monitors at a discount, but you can’t buy the monitors directly. That’s too bad, because a $995 24-inch LCD is only $470 under the program. Sun should consider selling these by themselves. What a great branding win it would be to have developers at startups everywhere sitting behind dual 24inch monitors staring at a Sun logo all day.
Enough analysis; here’s the pricing.
I’m not including all the specs below; the specs that are included are there just to help differentiate between two systems of the same name. I’m also not including all the configuration options. You can add things like keyboards and monitors, but not change hard drives and RAM.
There may be typos in the table below — I transcribed it by hand. So these prices may not be 100% accurate and of course Sun might change them at any time. In any event, this price list should be enough to give you an idea of what you can get under the program and the types of discounts you’ll see.
he Tango icon theme's goal is to make applications not seem alien on any desktop. A user running a multiplatform application should not have the impression that the look is unpolished and inconsistent with what he or she is used to. While this isn't about merging styles of all desktop systems, we do aim to not be drastically different on each platform.
Along with a generic type fallback, having a similar style will help in the transition phase with some legacy icons which may still remain on a user's particular desktop.
