CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/

http://www.sans.org/top25errors/

Pretty much the same stuff, but a good list for reference/learning nonetheless.

GZip testing

A nifty online test tool for GZIP compression testing, along with some sample codes and methods to enable GZIP compression for your site/pages. ;)

http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
http://www.desilva.biz/php/zlib.html

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On Apache, if zlib is installed, we can use just a simple code snippet to enable GZIP compression:



Really simple right?

.NET: ILMerge

For .NET developers: ILMerge takes multiple .NET assemblies and merges them into a single .NET assembly. Might come in handy sometime in the future.

[Link]

URI / URL Parsing Using RegExp in JavaScript

Sometime back when I was writing a web crawler in JavaScript, I had to parse URIs into their constituents. And for that task I modified Flog's URI Parser class for my needs.

Well, as part of the licensing, and for sharing of information, I thought I'd post the JavaScript code here.

function UriParser(uri){
//define class (for use with prototype.js) to do URI parsing
//modified from FlogUriParser found at http://www.flog.co.nz/index.php/journal/prototype-uri-parser-class/
this._regExp = /^((\w+):\/\/\/?)?((\w+):?(\w+)?@)?([^\/\?:]+):?(\d+)?(\/?[^\?#;\|]+)?([;\|])?([^\?#]+)?\??([^#]+)?#?(\w*)/;
this.username = "";
this.password = "";
this.port = "";
this.protocol = "";
this.host = "";
this.pathname = "";
this.url = "";
this.urlparamseparator = "";
this.urlparam = "";
this.querystring = {};
this.fragment = "";
this.results = null;

this._getVal = function(r, i) {
if(!r) return null;
return (typeof(r[i]) == 'undefined' ? "" : r[i]);
};

this.parse = function(uri) {
var r = this._regExp.exec(uri);
this.results = r;
this.url = this._getVal(r,0);
this.protocol = this._getVal(r,2);
this.username = this._getVal(r,4);
this.password = this._getVal(r,5);
this.host = this._getVal(r,6);
this.port = this._getVal(r,7);
this.pathname = this._getVal(r,8);
this.urlparamseparator = this._getVal(r,9);
this.urlparam = this._getVal(r,10);
this.querystring = this._getVal(r,11);
this.fragment = this._getVal(r,12);
return r;
}

if(uri) this.parse(uri);
}

New project?

Will be trying to do up a simple mailing list program for use, and also for practise. Maybe I'll post up the process and the documents generated in the process, if anyone is interested in looking at how (badly) I do it this time ;P

EasyEclipse

For those who want to use Eclipse to program, but don't wish to be staggered by the 851785719653 plugins to select and install.

Packages include configurations for programming in Desktop Java, Server Java, Mobile Java, LAMP, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python and C/C++.

http://www.easyeclipse.org/