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I didn’t write this article, so I don’t take credit for it.. But I felt it was something that everyone should read… and seeing as how it was released in the public domain, I’m posting it here for your reading enjoyment. You know, it’s one thing to keep secrets from the general population for national security’s sake. Fine, I can understand that… But to purposefully lie and deceive the citizens of an entire nation… or even more so, the citizens of all nations in the world…. I don’t know…. it’s just very disheartening to know that these are the people in power.. These are the people who we’ve placed where they are, and we do nothing when the facts surface. How long is this going to last people? When are we going to take out government back into our own hands? When are we going to hold them accountable?
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I’m privy to many a private mailing list. Occasionally I get jokes, pictures, save-the-whales chain-letters, you know. The normal kind of mail that gets forwarded from one person to another – pointless, but usually semi-worth the the minute of your life wasted on reading it. Then I get things like the following. Things that makes you think and wonder how things have gotten the way they are. What went wrong? Why isn’t anybody doing anything about it? Read it in it’s brief entirety. Does this trouble anyone else but me?
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I was recently reading various articles on how to load external pages using javascript and loading the results into a container div, mimicing that aspect of AJAX requests. But the main complaint I read was that you couldn’t POST. I thought it would be neat to figure out a way to do this, so after toying around with a few ideas, I came up with this dirty little method of posting form fields through javascript, passing the fields and values to php script through cookies, placing them into the $_POST array, and proceeding with business as usual.

Note that this method requires that the user has Javascript and cookies enabled. Also note that there is absolutely NO USE of the XmlHttpRequest object.
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SQL Injection. We’ve all heard the term. But what exactly is it? Sounds dirty and vile… or maybe something you get at the doctor’s office. A new type of plastic surgery maybe? Well, let’s find out, shall we?

From Wikiedpia.com:

SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is in fact an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another.

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I dont know how many of you have seen this video, but I thought it worthwhile to share, just in case you hadn’t.

Based on the book “Imagining the tenth dimension”, by Rob Bryanton, you are taken through the first chapter of the book where the concepts of the 10 dimensions are explained in a fairly easy to follow and entertaining fashion.

Amazing. The things some people have the time and mental capacity to think about – Nevermind the mathematical ingenuity! Awesome video, just watch it! You’ll feel way smarter (or way dumber) once you’re done.
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This tutorial will teach you how to use PHP and the XMLHttpRequest object [AJAX] to query a database for a value and display a result on the screen without having to refresh the page.

In this particular example, we’re doing a simple query in the style of Google(tm) – Checking for the availability of a username during account registration.
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This little tutorial will teach you how to create a simple out-going link tracker in PHP.

One of our clients had a rotating-advertisement script we had set him up with, and they decided they wanted to count the number of times each ad was clicked. Easy enough to do, but why just count clicks? There’s so much more information that would be beneficial to capture. Where was the user when the clicked on the ad? When? What browser were they using? In response to their request, I whipped up this little script. This script can be inserted just about anywhere you need to track out-going links.
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