There has been tons of news recently about IE8. It's extremely early in the browser's development, so take it all with a grain of salt, but it has been announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 test, which means the support for standards should be huge leaps and bounds over IE7, and completely surpassing anything IE6 could have hoped for. In effect, very good news.

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Recently, a lot of .gov and .edu web sites have been the target of SQL Injection attacks that seed their database with Javascript that does all sorts of nasty things, including targeting an old RealPlayer vulnerability. For all the gory details on this particular incident, I recommend reading the Web Security Blog over at ModSecurity.com for all the details, or the original SANS report of the attacks.

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I've been messing around with the options in LifeType, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. The options that LifeType offers seem to suit me pretty well, although there are some behaviors that irk me a little. I believe that I'll chalk them up to my inexperience for now, and hope for the best.

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From the moment I was introduced to the open source movement and free software (as in speech*), I've tried to embrace it. For a web developer, free and open software seems like a perfect pair for the free and open nature of the internet. I've grown accustom to looking under the hood of any web site I come upon, so why should the browser or operating system I use be any different?

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I discovered that my original technique of using anchor tags is far out of date. Modern technology has given us a much simpler, much slimmer, much snazzier way to link to your content, and it's seen cross-browser support for years.

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