Infocus: Using Libwhisker
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This article discusses the use of Libwhisker, a PERL module which allows for the creation of custom HTTP packets and can be used for penetration  testing various web applications.
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Observing the image of a faint object that lies close to a star is a demanding task as the object is generally hidden in the glare of the star. Characterising this object, by taking spectra, is an even harder challenge.
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In photo land, a new gizmo extreme white balancing than the traditional white paper. David Becker's PMA coverage continues in Gadget Lab.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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Elizabeth Smith has a new post to her blog today covering some of the fun she's been having with compiling things like Gtk+ and PHP-Gtk2.   So I've been using microsoft visual studio (actually it's Visual C++ Express, but uses the same stuff behind the scenes) to work on getting things compiled on windows. PHP-Gtk2 allows for some nifty extensions, well at least on linux. So I've been working to get versions of libglade, scintilla, gtksourceview and mozembed working on windows. It's a long, slow process. Here's the deal so far.   She talks about her current situation (what's compiling and what's not) and the software that she's trying to get up and running. She also mentions a problem she's been having with an error message talking about "unresolved external symbols" she'll need to track down (or get some help on - anyone out there seen it?)
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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Latest PECL Releases:syck 0.9ps 1.3.5syck 0.9.1imagick 2.0.0b3
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Read and Write ICO,BMP formats in 100% pure Java   Been a long time in the making, but I've finally gotten round to the final release for 0.7  The library appears to be stable, hence my decision to finalize the current release.  Thanks to Olivier Le Tiec for reporting a bug with irregular icons (width != height), together with the necessary bug fix.  Thanks for using image4j!
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The Summer Tournament Results from DotGeek.org have been announced:  I iridium - PHP OpenGL Windows Wins the Ipod 20 gb offered by dotgeek The second to the fourth classified win a 1 Year PRINTED Subscription to PHP Magazine II Buzer - DC & User objects for Windows 2003  Buzer - class Template v2.1 III ivansanchez - Ivan's Random Isometric City IV mesarpe - News System with 3 possibles databases
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The Hitachi 2400 Smart Windshield: You think you got clutter on your computer display? Ha! Screech! CRASH!
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Pierre-Alain Joye has posted several new updates concerning the packages he works on - Zip and a new offering, htscanner.   The first two concern the htscanner package - first, the initial release of the extension that works to emulate htaccess support for non-Apache web servers (like FastCGI or lighttpd). The second related post notes that that Windows binaries for the functionality are also posted on the pecl4win website.   Next on his list were some update to the Zip PECL package, a fix to correct issues found when using PHP versions 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 (due to an internal function name issue).
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_Wifi 1.0.0PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.2.1Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Flexy 0.1.3Mail_Mime 1.5.1Net_LDAP 1.0.0RC1Testing_FIT 0.2.0pearweb_index 1.16.6pearweb_index 1.16.5UDDI 0.2.4Mail_Mime 1.5.2pearweb_index 1.16.7Image_Canvas 0.3.1Benchmark 1.2.7PEAR 1.6.1Tree 0.3.1pearweb 1.16.1
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Lance Knobel: "I'd install FlickrFan in every middle school and high school social studies class. I guarantee it would provoke endless discussion and ensure engagement in the issues of the day." I totally agree. It would be great to see it at checkout lines in supermarkets and on kiosks in BART stations too.
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Can Wi-Fi signals make you ill? Newshounds pore over the available literature, but miss something interesting about the claims
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InfoWorld - Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.
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Hasin Hayder shares a method for "hacking" the Slideshare.net service to be able to download whatever slideshow you'd like:   I just spent some time today analyzing the HTTP requests made by the player available in slideshare using LiveHTTPHeader extension and found a way to download any presentation you want! There are many slides available in slideshare where you see that "Download not available" - But as long you have some knowledge on web-scrapping, that doesnÃ¢ÂÂt matter at all.   He includes the code that you can point at a slideshow's URL and let run. It works through each of the pages of the presentation and pulls out the URL of it and echoes it back out.
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Wow, this is really really coooooool.  The Library of Congress is partnering with Flickr, releasing pictures that it believes are not copyrighted, through Flickr. One of the fantastic side-effects of that is that there's an RSS 2.0 feed of those pictures that connects perfectly to FlickrFan.  If you click on this link on the machine that FlickrFan is running on, you'll automatically subcribe to the Library of Congress feed on Flickr. This is one of those moments when the standards are working, really well.  PS: If for some reason it doesn't work, try clicking on this link to get the latest update (v0.42), then click on the link above again.