August 17, 2006

AdSense I18n

First hundred users of the AdSense Watch Toolbar and first nasty bug - when language other than English is set up for an AdSense account at Google the CSV report cannot be parsed. Apparently googlers generate CSV report in a localized form - headers are translated and numbers are in a locale-specific format. Weird ...

August 16, 2006

SPI Labs: AJAX Opens up the Whole New Opportunities for Hacker Attacks

SPI Dynamics has published a whitepaper "Ajax Security Dangers": While Ajax can greatly improve the usability of a Web application, it can alsocreate several opportunities for possible attack if the application is notdesigned with security in mind. Since Ajax Web applications exist on both theclient and the server, they include ...

Dimitre Novatchev is blogging

Congratulations to all XSLT geeks - Dimitre Novatchev, XSLT extraordinaire is blogging! Whoha! Subscribed. ...

Ward Cunningham: Wiki is the original Web 2.0 application

Ward Cunningham: "Wiki is the original Web 2.0 application." Read the Ward Cunningham talking on "Wikis, Patterns, Mashups and More". Interestng one. ...

August 15, 2006

Visual Studio 2005 XSLT Run Plugin Coming Soon

I'm finishing another plugin for Visual Studio 2005, which will allow to one-click run XSLT transformations using different XSLT processors.  Visual Studio 2005 can only perform XSLT transformations using XslCompiledTransform and that's not enough for XSLT geeks. To make Visual Studio 2005 a real XSLT IDE it must be able ...

Testing Windows Live Writer Beta

This is pretty cool blog post editor. I'm gonna test it and if it's ok I switch to Windows Live Writer cause wbloggar seems to be dead. Works fine with my MovableType powered blog also and has all features I need. Allows plugins to be added, cool huh? I want ...

August 13, 2006

Introducing AdSense Watch Toolbar

This Lebanon war had a terrible impact on my personal productivity. Too much TV, too much internet, too much pain, too little work. Hope it ends soon. Anyway I decided I need some short victorious war, oops I mean small interesting project to get me back on track. I've seen ...

Streaming XML filtering in Java and .NET

XML processing is changing. In Java SAX slowly but steadily goes away or at least goes into low level and nowadays Java with StAX is not so different from .NET XmlReader. I found it pretty interesting to compare approaches to streaming filtering XML in Java and .NET. Filtering is a ...