While perusing the application logs this morning I noticed a number of SQL Injection attempts. The site that was being attacked uses MVC with automatic Form values to object binding so the exceptions were being thrown early on in the controller when the framework was trying to bind the attack string...
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There's a company called Kintiskton LLC who either own or are owned by Mark Manager and they provide a trademark protection service. They have a spider that crawls the web attempting to identify their customers' copyright material posted on sites other than their customers'. In principal I don't have...
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I use Google Maps a lot to investigate a place I'm going to or to get direction there. I've noticed that on Saturday mornings Google Maps often fails but when it doesn't it just runs real slow and I get this message: Still loading... Slow? Use the troubleshooting guide or basic HTML. My theory is that...
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I've heard about people doing AdWords/AdSense Arbitrage but I question if it's even possible. First of all, what is arbitrage? The classic definition of arbitrage has someone, usually a trader in the stock markets, buy and sell a financial instrument at exactly the same time such that there is zero risk...
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I changed a bunch of the URL's on a site that's in the Alexa to 100,000 - i.e. a moderately busy site that the Google bot visits every day. The old URL's now do a 301 redirected to the new structure. At the time that I did the switch over and every day for the next 60 days I took a snapshot of how many...
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Tony Gentilcore has just written a good post on How a web page loads and why blocking needs to take place when scripts and CSS load. I'm hoping that he's going to follow this up with a post on the SPDY protocol which looks pretty interesting for a faster web. Google say that SPDY is an experiment with...
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Great search engine ranking factors article recently published SEOmoz. Point #2 in the Top 5 Negative Ranking Factors is " Link Acquisition from Known Link Brokers/Sellers ." I still find this item hard to believe although I've heard this type of statement before. I remember attending an SEO...
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Bill Brown was showing me his NLP links in Pinboard when I noticed that he was typing named parameters in the pinboard URL. I'm intimately familiar with named parameters which have been around for a long time in computer languages and have recently been introduced into C# and am a big fan of them. However...
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I've just been doing some Google AdSense analysis for some web sites that have moderate traffic. The owner said that I can publish this bit of information from her site. She's interested to hear if other AdSense publishers have had similar results. The objective was to find out which day of the week...
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I just finished reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug and recommend you read it. It's sub-titled The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. It's a great read. He writes well, has appropriate sarcasm and wit at the right places, and delivers everything you need to know...
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