Monday, March 15, 2004

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 2.6 (Stable). The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 548 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 292 profusely commented illustrative examples, and a number of tables. [freshmeat.net] 7:56:54 PM

Experts publish 'how to' book for software exploits. The book, The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes, is intended as a resource for network administrators interested in closing security holes. [Computerworld News] 7:54:53 PM

freemed 0.7.0b2 released (FreeMED Project). Total project downloads to date: 22862 Project description: GPL'd Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management system for medical providers that runs in any web browser in multiple languages. [Download] [Release Notes] By rufustfirefly@users.sourceforge.net (Jeffrey Buchbinder). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] Maybe some day there will be something like this for law firms. 12:59:01 PM

Client-side data validation with XML - Builder.com - Article on using XML to validate data from a web client instead of using Javascript.  Could be the wave of the future.  10:45:26 AM