Linked List: July 5, 2005

Tuesday, 5 July 2005

VersionTracker’s Profanity Filter ★: VersionTracker’s user-comment profanity filter changes the name of “Cocktail” to “*censored*tail”.
PC World: Longhorn Preview ★: Scott Spanbauer takes a look at recent betas of Longhorn for PC World. Simply in terms of aesthetics, I think this is a big step backwards from XP: the whole UI looks like a big cluttered web page. (Note: I couldn’t get the screenshots to work in Safari 2.0, but they work just fine in Camino 0.9a1.) (Via Dan Benjamin on AIM.)
Rails Day 2005 Winners ★: Winners of the 24-hour Ruby on Rails programming contest; my favorite is YubNub (which finished in second-place), a “social command line for the web”.
Keychain Scripting “Isn’t Running” Error in AppleScript Scripts ★: If you want to use AppleScript to access passwords stored in your keychain, you need to make sure the Keychain Scripting app is already running, and was launched by an app other than the app that’s running your script.
Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits ★: Yikes; a slew of PHP weblog / CMS software packages, including WordPress, PostNuke, and Drupal, are vulnerable to bugs in the standard PHP XML-RPC libraries that allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.