Ayende writes an interesting post about the how idea of having a blog incorporated in your application can be a clever idea.
I have been thinking of this concept myself for a admin system I am developing. I think that a rss feed would be very handy but havn't been able to figure out how to make it private. Think I read somewhere about a way to put password on a feed, but some of the big rss readers does not support it yet (for example Google Reader).
One of the commenters to Ayende's post gave me a tip worth checking out. Unfortunatly it only works in Outlook / IE.
If you want to make RSS feeds private the easiest way (that works with Outlook at least) is to enable HTTP Basic Authentication and visit the RSS feed with IE to input credentials and check the option to save them. Then Outlook will transparently use those credentials to update the feed.
Code Swarm is a open source project which can be downloaded from the code base on Google. It uses the Processing engine for the animations to vizualize the data.
The data can be based on a code repository and you can see how developer commits their parts of code during a timeline. The screenshot above is from the Eclipse project which can be seen on the Vimeo group code_swarmers. The Debian Perl Group is also cool and feature some nice ambient music.
Wordle is a really fun service which can create tag-clouds from text och tags from your account at del.icio.us. You can see one I created on the image above. I also saved it to the gallery on Wordle if you would like to see my tag-cloud in bigger format.
I can highly recommend the Visual Studio plugin
Resharper, I found it nearly as fun as Tetris.
I have earlier showed how to use TinyMCE and ASP.NET Ajax UpdatePanels.
On the Microsoft forum i read the somebody has made an Ajax Extender till TinyMCE with the same functionallity, also as a downloadable zip.
It was about a year ago when the swedish version of Shelta's webstore was born with some help from us as development partner.
Today we released the international version (Shelta.eu) where we have worked on some improvements. We have removed the frames for more easy navigation and bookmarking, made it possible to choose from four different currencies and installed a nwe paymentsystem. André at Shelta has also worked on the design and given it a nice lilac color.
Please visit and check out SNS fisherman shirts, Nike Sneakers, Adidas Originals, Svensson jeans and a lot of other nice stuff for your winter shopping.
We are happy to announce that it is now possible to buy Trig.com gear on Merchworld and that the sites are mashed nicely together.
Also visit Trig.com/Merchworld for more info.
The Swedish security expert, Dan Egerstad has found and published usernames and passwords to email accounts of 100 embassies across the world.
Computer Sweden has interviewed him and he lets us know how he found the information when he was doing a security lab recently.
Since then he has pondered over what to do with it. Contacting all the ambassies would have been a time consuming task and perhaps met with the wrong attitude. If he would have given it to SÄPO (National Security Service (of Sweden) it would have been considered a act of espionage. So he made the brave decision and published the information on his blog, Deranged Security.
Still there are no information about which systems the hacked email acounts was running on, but it would be interesting to find out. I guess it's only a matter of time before we we learn more about this.
Hopefully this will shed some light on the issues with insufficient security of email accounts, and push the development towards safer system forward.
The Silverlight applications are beginning to get a bit more advanced and to show tehe real possibillities. Microsoft is showing off Tafiti, a experimental search koncept built on Silverlight and Live Search.
The demo is showing off some fun features, for exempel the "tree" as you can see an screenshot of above. Perhaps not very useful, but a fine exampel on hos visualization can make search more fun.
(LiveSide)
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Got a message from the security expert beni which says that he has found 7 security issues with the blog platform Wordpress (latest version 2.2.1).
He has now created a friendly XSS-worm which uses this vulnerabilities to patch your system. More instructions how to do this in his blog-post.
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