Using IIF in VBScript

by chris 7/2/2008 10:26:34 AM

While writing code in Visual Basic.NET I frequently use the IIF Function. Reading the MSDN definition of IIF tells you that IIF returns one of two objects, depending on the evaluation of an expression. Quite the handy function indeed. Recently I was writing some VBScript code and w... [More]

iif, vbscript

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Using Search Engines to Exploit Vulnerabilities

by Chris 5/22/2008 11:30:00 PM

Imagine a new zero-day web exploit is announced to the world. Some web administrators will immediately update their sites with the corrective code, however others may not be so quick to react. Some may be asking, what's the big deal? How would anyone find my little site? ... [More]

javascript, vulnerability

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Quick and Dirty TCP Listener Port

by Chris 5/22/2008 2:37:00 PM

Following up on my previous post about AllScoop's excellent TCP Listener tool... I decided to look into a change for the application that would allow me to see the IP Address of the connected client. I did a little digging and found an article in the Microsoft forums that had a recommend... [More]

tcp.client, listener

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Grab it by the Handlers

by Chris 5/6/2008 4:45:00 PM

I have been looking more closely at how BlogEngine.NET uses httpHandlers. This was a bit of a mystery to me so I decided to dive head first into how httpHandlers work. I found an excellent article that talks at length about what is a httpHandler, and another web site that automaticall... [More]

httphandlers, blogengine.net

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Creepy Crawlers and Files Downloaded

by Chris 5/5/2008 4:09:00 PM

I little while ago I started to suspect that my filedownload stats weren't all that accurate. It seems odd to me that every file was downloaded every day. So a little research and I have uncovered a problem with the current strategy. First I took a look at the IIS... [More]

downloads, webcrawler, robots.txt

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Collapsible Sections

by Chris 4/29/2008 10:22:00 PM

Do you really want to see all of my side panel sections, lie my blogroll and Delicious tags? I would bet that most people would rather look at the blog entries and only see the panel details when it interests them. If you feel the same way then you would understand why I want to implemen... [More]

javascript, css

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Visual Studio Tip

by chris 4/29/2008 2:03:24 PM

Did you know that Visual Studio provides for automatic formatting of code? This is extremely handy if you have imported code using the clipboard and the formatting didn't work out right... It's under the Edit | Advanced | Format Document option, or just CTRL+D. What a time saver! ... [More]

visual studio, tip

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