Services like tinyURL & Bitly are great but I could write my own version

Here the XML with PHP solution: XML->Array and Array->XML.

Gimp Community Reference Site.

If you're one among the millions of users of Wordpress, and you really don't have that much knowledge about what's going on under the hood, your best bet to securing your website is to use plug-ins.

Quite a few CSS frameworks have been around for a while, but most web developers avoid using them. Instead most veteran developers prefer to create their own CSS framework, which provide benefits of a personalized solution and minimizes negative aspects of depending on a third party solution.

Good / great? WebDesign Tips

Web-design has evolved greatly in the past couple years, thanks to all the great CSS tutorials out there. Of course now that browsers like Safari/webkit and Firefox/moz support some CSS3 properties, we’re seeing more and more designers use those newer techniques. Today I’d like to share with you some great CSS (and CSS3) tips, techniques and tutorials.

I never cease to be amazed at what problems can be solved with pure CSS. Here are 20 CSS techniques, tips and tricks that you may find handy:

Test your sites and web applications and perform a security assessment/audit of your work with these handy tools

Ever wanted to take a piece of WordPress functionality and put it in a non-WordPress portion of your website?

Good Reference for Checking your WordPress Code

SimplePie Documentation: This demo shows how to use SimplePie and a flat file database to display previous feed items like Google Reader

A super-fast, easy-to-use, RSS and Atom parser written in PHP.

A lifestream is a simple website that compiles your online activity in real time. All the cool kids have lifestream sites, so lets take a look at creating our own!

Retrieves an external feed and parses it. Uses the SimplePie and FeedCache functionality for retrieval and parsing and automatic caching.

You want to use Linux and OpenSSH to automize your tasks. Therefore you need an automatic login from host A / user a to Host B / user b. You don't want to enter any passwords, because you want to call ssh from a within a shell script.

NTRadPing is a useful tool for testing installations of your RADIUS servers. Through NTRadPing you can simulate authentication and accounting requests and send them to the RADIUS server making NTRadPing act as a NAS client.

Portable Ubuntu Remix is an Ubuntu system running as a Windows application.

FortiClient™ standard edition offers one of the most comprehensive security suites for your PC available – including a full range of Fortinet threat protections for PCs and laptops, even when used on insecure public networks. This free download provides SSL and IPSec VPN, a personal firewall, antivirus/antispyware scanning, Intrusion Prevention and web filtering. FortiGate™ users complete their network security framework with Endpoint Control, Application Detection and WAN Optimization. Automatic updates from the FortiGuard™ subscription service ensure protection against the latest threats.

I'll guide you through the levels in such a way that you will get the items as soon as possible – and as quickly as possible. Add to that mix a good injection of humor in combination with visual aid and you get this Guide as result
Furthermore, this Guide also features the newest Metal Gear Solid downloadable content. It will guide you through the levels and tell you where all prize bubbles are, just as with the main walkthrough. This Guide will stay up-to-date whenever a large Level Pack comes out.

This sample configuration works for a very small office connected directly to the Internet. The assumption is that Domain Name Service (DNS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and web services are provided by a remote system run by the Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Cisco IOS versions 12.4 and later have the capability to directly update your No-IP hostname using a built-in DDNS client.

In its simplest configuration, the Network Address Translator (NAT) operates on a router connecting two networks together; one of these networks (designated as inside) is addressed with either private or obsolete addresses that need to be converted into legal addresses before packets are forwarded onto the other network (designated as outside).

Aladdin buttons for testing malicious web code.

Yep, tiz a good thing….

Weave + Dropbox + TD = LinickxNsync!

If I get could get a private DropBox & TD like my self hosted weave I'd be well impressed!

Windows TCP/IP ports for Dummies!!!!!
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This article discusses the essential network ports, protocols and services that are used by Microsoft client and server operating systems, server-based programs and their subcomponents in the Microsoft Windows server system

I wish I could tab my way thru this….

show configuration with-keyrings unencrypted

Note to self…. for when the ASDM fails me again!
<code>fw# test aaa-server authentication my-radius</code>

ToDo: Investigate how to DNSSEC + linickx.com … the big question is not how hard but how much will it cost… certificates cost money, not something a small time blogger has to spare

This looks cool, probably not something I need as my PS3 does most of these things, but the interface looks rockin!

Cron comes from the word chronos, the Greek word for time. Cron is a utility that can help with automating certain tasks in Linux

2 simple commands that most people want to know when they start using Linux. They are finding the size of a directory and finding the amount of free disk space that exists on your machine

Tomboy 0.14.1, which represents the beginning of our stable support for Tomboy on all major desktop platforms.

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64.

Good tutorial on proxy.pac & WPAD configuration.

Independent review of anti-malware products

McAfee Artemis Technology is the first always-on,�real-time protection that secures enterprises and consumers from threats as they strike…. aparently

Cool Virus Total uploaders, either e-mail or Win32 send-to thingy!

Good proxy.pac file reference

Pactester is a tool to test Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) files.

This chapter provides an overview of the release history, and feature and Management Information Base (MIB) support for the IPsec VPN SPA.

>Maybe you’ve been building your career over several years but you’re not sure that you possess the level of knowledge you need to pass either the CISSP® or SSCP® certification examination.

… this one is probably me

CISSP Practice Questions & Quizzes.

This is a nice alternative to twittermail, but can you get enough information in 140 chars!?!?!

>Want to see your OSSEC alerts on twitter? We just added support for that on the latest snapshot.

This is very cool stuff, being able to break out of a guest machine is a hacking mecca!

…tiz a shame it happen'd tho, it will put a lot of sec-heads off visualization and there are some good cases to use it.

The Cisco like shell always confuses me! I don't know why I can't remember this!!!

How can you change the enable password when connecting via PUTTY?
> security enable-password <new_password>

I do love Futurama
> Futurama when it comes to a sprinkling of both well-known and obscure Apple references.

he Honeynet Project has discovered an anomaly in Conficker that makes it possible to detect infected hosts with an elaborate fingerprint scan over the network.

sudo nmap -sC –script=smb-check-vulns –script-args=safe=1 -p445 \
-d -PN -n -T4 –min-hostgroup 256 –min-parallelism 64 \
-oA conficker_scan <your network(s) here>

Hot on the coattails of the Simple Conficker Scanner, I’ve added detection for Conficker to Nmap.

This enabled us to intercept or mangle the packets exchanged between the infected machine and the outside world. We monitored the activity of the infected host over several days. We classify the test into two phases: Pre- April 1st and the April 1st phase.