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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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Monthly Archives: September 1999
Forcing ASP Garbage Collection
I stumbled across this little tip in the MS Knowledge Base today: …the following line of VBScript forces an immediate garbage collection: Y = len(string(65537, ‘x’)) This script line fills up a temporary string larger than 128K, which causes garbage … Continue reading
Webclient API Spec
The WebClient API specification has been released on the Mozilla site. From the introduction: The webclient project aims to provide a browser neutral Java API that enables generic web browsing capability. This capability includes, but is not limited to: web … Continue reading
Sun to Drop Java Workshop
Slashdot has turned up the news that Sun is dropping it’s two Java development environments: Java Workshop and Java Studio. This is a shame since I really liked the concept of Java Workshop way back when Java had just been … Continue reading
More COOL Rumours
More rumours on Microsoft’s COOL project, this time courtesy of jTechUpdate (this page uses ActiveX). Tod Nielson, of Microsoft USA is quoted as dismissing the rumours as urban legends. He also added that they were not planning any major releases … Continue reading
Item Comments
You may have noticed that we’ve reopened the comments section for each item. It’s a simpler system than before and it directly links into the archive for each item so it’s all in one place now. Sorry, but I couldn’t … Continue reading
We’re Back Again
Well I’m back from holiday so updates should resume from today. I was away from any kind of computer for 10 days so had lots of time to do some real thinking. Anyway I came back to two dead servers. … Continue reading
Buffer Overflows in NT
Via the NT Bugtraq list comes these two excellent articles about discovering and exploiting buffer overflows in NT. The first, by dark spyrit, shows how he located an overflow inf SLMail and demonstrates how to use that to start an … Continue reading
Microsoft Cool is Near
The Register is reporting that Microsoft are close to releasing their supposed Java killer – Cool. Rumours hint that it will ship with conversion tools to convert existing Java applications to the Cool environment which is an enhanced version of … Continue reading
Mozilla Development Accelerating
The pace of development on the Mozilla project is accelerating. Three new areas of functionality have been added to the Mozilla CVS tree in the past week, all by external developers. First there’s the new XSL Transformations code, ported from … Continue reading
Open News Servers
Once upon a time I used to run a site that hosted a long list of publicly available news servers. I closed that site down a few months ago because the work involved in maintaining it was too great. Well, … Continue reading
