Posts made in June, 2008

• Scrawlr – Scanner for SQL Injection

  Databases
  

  Scrawlr is short for SQL Injector and Crawler, a tool developed by the HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with the Microsoft Security Response Center in response to the widespread SQL injection attacks on the web. “Scrawlr will crawl a website while simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each individual web page for SQL Injection [...]

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• MemProxy 0.1 – Memcache Proxy Server in PHP

  PHP
  A pretty cool project in PHP – Memproxy is a caching proxy “server” that uses memcached for storing the cache. This project uses PHP scripts to handle caching using memcache. Key features of the MemProxy are: Uses memcached for storage Serves cache headers to clients based on TTL of cached data Uses custom headers to [...]

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• Goosh.org – Google Shell

  Linux
  

  was quite amused with this  site I came across today:  Goosh.org is a browser based shell for Google created by Stefan Grothkopp. You can use this to search across Google’s various services like images, blog search, wiki, news and more. You can use the up and down arrow keys for previous commands and use the [...]

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• MySQL Error: 1062 Duplicate entry ’0′ for key 1

  Databases
  

  Here’s a problem we had come across today. Whenever we tried inserting data into a certain table, MySQL kept throwing up the following error: mySQL error: 1062 Duplicate entry ’0′ for key 1 After scratching our heads over this one, we tried to alter the table to set the autoincrement field to the next number [...]

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• Phalanger – PHP Compiler for .Net

  PHP
  Phalanger is a new PHP implementation introducing the PHP language into the family of compiled .NET languages. It provides PHP applications an execution environment that is fast and extremely compatible with the vast array of existing PHP code. Phalanger gives web-application developers the ability to benefit from both the ease-of-use and effectiveness of the PHP [...]

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• Win a Bag full of Goodies – John Chow’s Blog

  General Stuff
  

  Here’s a chance for all you bloggers to win a Bag Full of Market Leverage Goodies from John Chow’s Blog. Details on how to enter are published in his contest post. The bag full of goodies consists of the following: Flip video camera $200 Market Leverage Amex Rewards card USB drive that is also a [...]

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• Power your PHP Business Logic with Excel

  PHP
  I just came across this cool article which shows you how to use Excel to run the business logic of a PHP application. Maarten shows you how to use Excel to calculate the cost of a Car and get these results to show in PHP using the PHPExcel library. Under the covers, the Excel formula [...]

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• Woopra – Get Analytics and Interact with Users

  General Stuff
  

  Woopra is an excellent service which is currently in Beta phase. This service gives you a cool analytic engine for your sites with a desktop interface. You can see live hits, geo reports and also allows you to start a chat with the visitors on your sites. This is a really cool feature which allows [...]

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• AdsBlackList – Block low paying ads on Google Adsense

  Sites
  

  AdsBlackList.com is a unique project designed to enable you to dramatically reduce the amount of MFA (made for ads) and LCPC (low cost per click) sites which appear through the use of PPC systems such as Google Adsense™, Yahoo Publisher Network™ and Chitika eMiniMalls™. To get started with this service, you’ll first have to create [...]

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• MySQL Tip – Ordering by Date stored in a varchar field

  Databases
  

  How do you sort a varchar field which has the dates stored in it? If you try the usual order by on the varchar fields you’ll have trouble with the sort order, since MySQL will order this field like a varchar and you will surely have problems with dates being sorted this way. Take the [...]

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