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Ronnie Diaz

  • The Truth About Microsoft

    I must admit, I haven’t been the largest fan of Microsoft products and policies. (With the exclusion of Visual Studio and the .NET and XNA platforms.. and Silverlight and Excel…) However, it’s very easy to jump on the “anti-MS bandwagon”… Continue reading

  • The “Iron man interface”

    While researching some technical and design patents, I stumbled across a very cool/interesting little patent reminiscent of something you might see in one of the recent “Iron Man” movies. Although “Tony Stark”, especially in his latest installment, is working with… Continue reading

  • Disable button on AJAX Postback

    Many different implementations exist for disabling a button on AJAX post-back. I find the following code snippet to be very simple, clear and effective. Although this example applies to ASP. NET, with small modification this would work for PHP as… Continue reading

  • Beyond Compare

    If you’re a web developer managing multiple websites and web-applications, you are probably already comfortable with an application or set of applications and scripts for uploading and changing content. If you’re up for trying new things however, try out this… Continue reading

  • Department of Justice Announces New Assistant United States Attorneys and FBI Agents to Combat Intellectual Property Crimes

    “As part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing initiative to confront intellectual property (IP) crimes, Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary G. Grindler announced today the appointment of 15 new Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) positions and 20 FBI Special Agents to… Continue reading

  • OAuth

    Possible new standard in website logins, esp. or at least initially in social networking applications. One unified login shared across multiple sites.: The 1.0 spec: http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/ Official draft spec. pending IESG approval before publication as an RFC. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-10 Wiki Article:… Continue reading

  • Apple’s IPad Gets Rejected From Some Colleges, For Now

    “…The tablet, lauded by many as the next wave in education technology, has already been rejected by two top universities, George Washington University and Princeton University because of security issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with… Continue reading

  • VeriSign warns of major social networking threat

    “Firm uncovers black market trading in millions of compromised accounts… …Prices for the accounts depend on how many contacts or friends the user has on the site, and range from $25 (£16.25) per 1,000 accounts with 10 contacts or fewer… Continue reading

  • Researchers crack Palm webOS with a text message

    “Researchers have managed to crack Palm’s webOS with a simple text message. The team at Intrepidus Group worked on a Palm Pre running the 1.3.5. version of the webOS operating system, and found it open to many common vulnerabilities due… Continue reading

  • Clone Objects in .Net using Reflections

    Clone or Duplicate Objects using .Net Reflections library: .Net, as well as many other object oriented languages, have strong distinctions between value types and reference types. Objects in .Net, which all inherit the same base object class are reference types.… Continue reading