In my previous post, What is a SQL Injection Attack, I gave a brief overview of SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), primarily with regard to websites. In the example given, we saw that an attack could take the form of a ‘hacked’ URL which contained either a literal SQL statement, or a hexadecimal string that could be interpreted by an insecure SQL database server.
Tags: attack, backup, ColdFusion, cross-site scripting, database, database server, hack, hacking, how to, howto, programatically, restore, rollback, script, Scripting, SQL, XSS
Over the past few weeks, subversive elements in the international arena have decided that attacking websites is a fun thing to do! The online world has become the new battle ground between nations vying to de-stabilise rivals. This may seem all very Jack Bauer, but we are increasingly seening ‘SQL injection attacks’ eminating from countries such as Russia, China and North Korea. Of course, that doesn’t mean our countries aren’t doing the same in return, but we only see the results from foreign-based attacks.
Tags: attack, C#, China, ColdFusion, cross-site scripting, hack, hacking, malicious web users, North Korea, online world, Russia, SQL, SQL Injection, T, url, web applications, XSS
Advertising and finding work as a freelancer has the potential to be extremely painful and difficult. However, having made the decision to go freelance, it is likely you are actually good at what you do, which gives you a great headstart.
Tags: 99Designs, advertising, adwords, Adwords service, affiliate links, amazon, business directories, ColdFusion, complicated accounting, contractor, ebay, equivalent search marketing service, freelance, freelancer, Freelancing, Google, lemon foundation, online brand, online business directories, programmermeetdesigner, ready-built network, search engines, sitepoint, temporary, the Lemon Foundation, Thomson, thomson local, touch local, web development resource, yell.com
In the first two parts of this series, I talked about setting up in business as a freelancer and publicising yourself via branding and blogging.
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In the first part of this series I talked about setting yourself up in business. The next step is to publicise yourself and your skills. At this point, it is helpful to know exactly what line of work you want to be focusing on, since you will need to target your efforts.
Tags: Adobe, aggregators, blog, blog owner, brand, branding, brightkite, ColdFusion, contractor, demo example applications, europe, freelance, freelancer, Freelancing, FriendFeed, Google, micro-blogging, micro-blogging services, Microsoft, moveabletype expressionweb, online presence, online world, plurk, search engines, socialthing, temporary, tumblr, Twitter, typepad, united kingdom, United States, wordpress, Yahoo
You’re an experienced designer or developer with aspirations to become a freelancer. Shrugging off the corporate cloak —”It’s cosy! It fits well! You’ve had it for years!” — is becoming more and more common.
Tags: accountant, ColdFusion, company registration, contractor, experienced designer, freelance, freelancer, Freelancing, Inland Revenue, insurance, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, PAYE, Professional Contractors Group, tax, temporary, The Professional Contractors Group, trustworthy accountant, united kingdom, United States, VAT, web design, web development
Creating an autocomplete form field historically has not been a trivial matter and would require an indepth knowledge of JavaScript and CSS. However, the task is made far more simple when using one of the many freely-available JavaScript libraries. In this post I will show you how to implement the jQuery Autocomplete created by Dylan Verheul.
Tags: AJAX, Australia, autocomplete, Bulgaria, ColdFusion, Dylan Verheul, Framework, JavaScript, jquery, New Brunswick, plugin, tutorial, united kingdom
For many web developers, whenever JavaScript is mentioned it provokes a rye smile; JavaScript is one of those programming languages that is rather avoided than embraced. This is not the fault of the language itself, but rather the browsers.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion, AJAX, client-side, ColdFusion, developers, ExtJS, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, jquery, libraries, library, Server Side, server-side technology, Spry, Web 2.0, web developers, Yahoo, Yahoo user interface, Yahoo! User Interface Library, YUI
Today ColdFusion moved into the next stage of its life and became a teenager, hopefully not a precocious one!
Tags: 1999, 2001, 2005, 2007, ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion, Allaire, Centaur, ColdFusion, ColdFusion Markup Language, Derby, Flash, Flash platform, Flex, HTML, Internet Applications, Java, JavaScript, Jeremy Allaire, JJ Allaire, JSP, macromedia, Miscellaneous, Neo, PHP, Scorpio, Visual C++
In the past, the US has held a near monopoly not only in ColdFusion-based user groups, but also conferences, with CFUnited, cf.Objective() and the more general Adobe MAX leading the way.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe MAX, Aral Balkan, BlueDragon, Brighton, cf.Objective, CFUnited, ColdFusion, Coldspring, conference, Edinburgh, europe, Flex, Frameworks, Fusebox, Hal Helms, London, Mach-II, Microsoft, Model-Glue, Peter Bell, Peter Elst, Railo, Scotch on the Rocks, Sean Corfield, search engine, Silverlight, Simon Bailey, Spry, technology-agnostic topics, united kingdom, United States