Web Vampire

Now, having pointed out the signs, I can give you my awesomeness advice.

• Read at least one to two books every year and follow at least one technology blog/aggregator.
• Start a new open source project that you think will be awesome, or join another project that you think is going to be awesome.
• Ask yourself, what is beauty? Is it fast code? Is it brevity? Is it clarity? Once you know thyself, then you can start to measure and hone your craft.
• When you find yourself faced with a change, think about it. Do you have more to gain or lose? How can you experiment with the change? How can you measure the effects? How can you isolate the change? How can you bound your fear? How can you reap the reward?

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• Aug 29th, 2010
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When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they’ll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rocky Heckman. ‘It’s amazing how much stuff we get.’ Heckman also said Microsoft was a common target for people testing their attacks. ‘The first thing [script kiddies] do is fire off all these attacks at Microsoft.com. On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second.’

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• Aug 29th, 2010
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I don’t want to be too alarmist, but try running the following PHP code on your system:

<?php
$date = '2040-02-01';
$format = 'l d F Y H:i';
$mydate1 = strtotime($date);
echo '<p>', date($format, $mydate1), '</p>';
?>

With luck, you’ll see “Wednesday 1 February 2040 00:00″ displayed in your browser. If you’re seeing a date in the late 60’s or early 70’s, your PHP application may be at risk from the Y2K38 bug!

Source: SitePoint

• Aug 27th, 2010
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