Category Archives: Web Dev

Zend Alternatives

When most people think of PHP they think Zend, but did you know that Zend isn’t the only company that makes a PHP engine? There are many competing compilers and interpreters for PHP, each with their own slightly different take on the PHP language. Facebook’s HipHop HipHop takes normal PHP code and transforms it into [...]
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DoS using a single client

Have you ever heard of Slowloris? It has been around for a little over a year, but fortunately I have never had the “pleasure” of dealing with it. This short Perl script (less than 350 lines of actual code) is capable of turning your lowly desktop computer into a server killing monster. Traditional denial of [...]
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All The Domains in the World

After waiting months I’ve finally been given access to the .com TLD zone file! (And the .net, but who cares about .net, right?) So what is a zone file, you ask? Basically this file keeps track of how to access every .com domain name in the entire world. Well, technically not all of them, just [...]
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CloudFlare Rocks!

I recently got invited to try out CloudFlare, a new free service in closed beta. I checked out the homepage and was greeted with a “Wouldn’t it be cool if your website were protected by ninjas?” header. Why, yes, that would be cool. So, not really understanding exactly what it was, I signed up and [...]
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My First Firefox Add-on

Update (7/16/2010): The add-on got reviewed and approved! Yay! I’ve been wanting to make a Firefox add-on FOREVER, but have never found something worth making that hasn’t already been made (or isn’t way beyond my abilities to make). So I decided I’d start simple and make a search provider add-on for ABA Number Lookup. I [...]
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