foundOnTheWeb by rjb & Helma

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• Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web 
  Client authentication has been a continuous source of problems on the Web. Although many well-studied techniques exist for authentication, Web sites continue to use extremely weak authentication schemes, especially in non-enterprise environments such as store fronts. These weaknesses often result from careless use of authenticators within Web cookies. Of the twenty-seven sites we investigated, we weakened the client authentication on two systems, gained unauthorized access on eight, and extracted the secret key used to mint authenticators from one.
  We provide a description of the limitations, requirements, and security models specific to Web client authentication. This includes the introduction of the interrogative adversary, a surprisingly powerful adversary that can adaptively query a Web site.
  Added: Fri Jul 25 2008; URL: http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/papers/webauth_tr.pdf; id = 168
• What to Install After a Fresh XP Install 
  "The honest truth is Vista is a very poor OS, even Microsoft admits that Vista is broken..." - so XP is bound to be around for quite a while. Here are one person's subjective notes on how to improve on XP poor out-of-the-box looks and features: themes, gadgets, utils, etc.
  Added: Fri Jul 25 2008; URL: http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/210ee; id = 167
• The Cobra Programming Language 
  Cobra is a general purpose programming language with:
  a clean, high-level syntax
  static and dynamic binding
  first class support for unit tests and contracts
  compiled performance with scripting conveniences
  ...and more.
  Cobra was created by Chuck Esterbrook, but takes many design elements from Python, C#, Eiffel, Objective-C and others.
  Cobra is one of the few languages that supports both static and dynamic typing.
  Added: Fri Jul 18 2008; URL: http://cobra-language.com/; id = 166
• Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide  
  This 320-page book treats parsing in its own right, in greater depth than is found in most computer science and linguistics books. It offers a clear, accessible, and thorough discussion of many different parsing techniques with their interrelations and applicabilities, including error recovery techniques. Unlike most books, it treats (almost) all parsing methods, not just the popular ones.
  No advanced mathematical knowledge is required; the book is based on an intuitive and engineering-like understanding of the processes involved in parsing, rather than on the set manipulations used in practice.
  The text of the book is available for downloading.
  Added: Mon Jun 30 2008; URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html; id = 165
• Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design 
  This book is a substantially revised version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. Think Python is a free textbook available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
  Added: Mon Jun 23 2008; URL: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/; id = 164