Also had the opportunity to spend some time with Paul at Sushi Samba in Chicago and my partners and I all agree, besides obviously being extremely intelligent and talented, this guy is hilarious. He must be a hoot to work with. He kept reminiscing about an old trailer that he used to live in, said he could still hear the rain hitting his roof…
Link to Paul Stahura of Demand Media
I ran across this the other day and thought it was worthy of mentioning here. I have been writing some apps in php that have client side login screens that more or less could be hacked through brute force attempts just like any other web login form out there (including your online banking account…). This google password strength api is probably one of the better ones I have ever seen, I can remember thinking this also a while back when i signed up for some of my other google services. This article has links to download tar’d and gzip’d versions of the api source code as well as some demo helps which is always pretty cool to have…
Link to Google Password Strength API - The Code Project - AJAX / Atlas
I actually ran across this on SourceForge the other day, what a handy little tool or add-in for Picasa. Just think, now you can use a Google owned application (ie. Picasa) to upload content to a Yahoo tool (flickr), what next? Link to Featured Windows Download: Upload Picasa pics to Flickr with Picasa2Flickr - Lifehacker
HostinCon 2007 is already off to a good start for us, it looks like Kegal, aka Stephen, registered us in time to get into the earlybird drawing and we won free lodging at the sheraton this year. That’s awesome!
Link to Early Bird Giveaway Winners! - HostingCon Connect Blog
In what could be the largest data security breach in the world to date, information on 40 million credit card accounts might have been stolen. The massive breach follows several high-profile data loss incidents that potentially exposed American consumers to identity theft. The incident also comes as the public expresses increasing concern over identity theft.
I think that something that needs to be brought to the attention of consumers is that in instances like this, it wasn’t the actual online process itself that failed, the issue came from the backend card processor that the website transmits information to for authorizing a transaction. In my opinion, the Government needs to step in and enforce stronger regulations for security for these processing companies. Pleth primarily uses two processing companies, three really if you want to count PayPal. We only deal with processors that we know are reputable and maintain stringent security practices.
Link to Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts | CNET News.com
This is an awesome video library of Cold Fusion 8 features soon to be released that Scott, our ColdFusion developer sent over, it’s pretty well put together and I am looking forward to learning ColdFusion… Link to ColdFusion 8 Beta Preview - lynda.com Online Training Library ™
I had the opportunity to meet with Chris Sheridan in Chicago during HostingCon this year and he turned out to be a super nice guy and a whole lot of fun to talk with. I am looking forward to seeing Pleth have a much closer working relationship with Enom.