Weekend Link Roundup: Week 9
Design Pattern Library – Yahoo has made a collection of web design patterns that they see. This is very interesting. Check it out.
New Order – One of my favorite security resources.
Special ALT Characters – Here is a list of ascii characters and how you type one. These are great to add to your passwords to make them more secure.
35 Portable Applications that Every Tech Needs – The article should read, “35 portable applications every windows tech needs”, but it is still a handy list of useful apps.
What a 1GB hard drive looked like 20 years ago – It is amazing how fast technology changes.
The Top 75 Open Source Security Apps – Although not in any particular order these open source apps are worth checking out. You probably know about most of them but you might find something new.
iptablesrocks.com – If you are new to the Linux firewall iptables this site will walk you through it from zero to hero.
43 Ways to Optimize your PHP Code – A very cool list of PHP optimizations you can start using in your code today. There are lots of optimizations that I didn’t know, apparently echo is faster than print. I never use print but now I know why. It turns out that $row[’id’] is 7 times faster than $row[id].
