Damon Cortesi's security blog

This is the piece that Amazon was missing (along with EC2 and S3). It's very simplistic but should be useful for some companies nonetheless, since EC2 instances aren't persistent.

Quoted: Amazon has just added an enterprise-class database called SimpleDB to its suite of cloud-based IT infrastructure, which also includes storage (S3) and computation (EC2) available by the drink. Today, Amazon is taking sign-ups for the SimpleDB beta, which should start in a few weeks. As it points out on the new Simple DB page:

Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.

Some of these tips apply to Visual Studio without ASP.NET

Quoted: This page lists some of the more popular “ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas” posts I’ve done. My goal is to add new posts to the series regularly going forward – so bookmark this page for updates, or subscribe to my blog via this RSS feed.

Reference for the MySQL ODBC connector, useful for using MySQL from Microsoft Access, etc.

Saw this last night. My wife's cousin was Associate Producer and Assistant Director of it. It's a pretty funny movie, but the humor is more subtle than what's in a lot of movies these days. You have to pay attention.

Quoted: The TV Set: Tagline: A place where dreams are canceled

Plot Outline: The story of a TV pilot as it goes through the Network TV process of casting, production and finally airing.

Redotted from Mike

Data storage system in Firefox 2. Cool!

Quoted: SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.

Quoted: How to paginate, sort and search a table with Ajax and Rails

Quoted: Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.

Quoted: Flags of the World (FOTW) is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 30,000 pages ...