Software
First Beta of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It’s designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need to code anything, you can choose between Visual Basic .NET or C#. The overall goal seems to be allowing one to focus on the business rules and policies while creating an app, not the syntax.
MultiBoot USB: Simplifies Taking Your IT Toolbox With You
Another guest posting over at Freewaregenius today. I really enjoyed writing this article because the tool I found just seems like it will be pretty helpful in my day-to-day work. The tool is called MultiBoot USB and it makes the creation of a bootable USB drive with multiple Linux distributions on it a breeze. For me, this means I can carry GParted, Clonezilla, DBaN, Offline NT Password Editor, and a linux distribution on a single USB key.
Find out more about MultiBoot USB from the Freewaregenius article: MultiBoot USB: Simplifies Taking Your IT Toolbox With You
Status.net and Sharetronix, a “Twitter” You Own and Control
Twitter has had phenomenal growth and reaches millions of people daily. From the outside looking in, it seems they were able to accomplish this while not following the traditional path of getting everything exactly right. Particularly recently, Twitter has a high rate of downtime and a high response time. Combined with the “Older Tweets are not available…” message, I looked into some of the free Twitter alternative services that you could host on your own server like Status.net and Sharetronix.
Experiences with Three PHP Frameworks in Brief
I’m by no means a PHP developer but I do like to tinker around with it on the side for fun projects on my own and very rarely if something comes up at work. (A lot of my work involves filling in the gaps. Why just last week I was a Visual Basic 2008 programmer again.) Before embarking on my next project, I decided to check out some of the PHP frameworks I’ve heard about to look into learning those for all the benefits that a framework provides. Over the past few nights, I’ve tried CodeIgniter, Yii, and Kohana.
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updates to 9.3.4
More ammo for complaints of Adobe Acrobat getting bloated: by including Flash inside of PDFs, whenever a vulnerability with Adobe Flash is found it means a Flash update is required and then a week or two later, Adobe Reader and Acrobat also need to be updated. Today, those Reader and Acrobat updates hit the wire. They were previously announced that they would be coming sometime during this week and August 19th is the magic day. This update is an out-of-cycle release and the next quarterly update is scheduled for October 12th, according to the Adobe PSIRT blog.
Adobe Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Flash Media Server Updates Come Out Of Nowhere
Adobe provided updates to Adobe Flash Player, ColdFusion, and Adobe Flash Media Server today to address critical and important severity security issues. Oddly, these seem to have come out of the blue. I’m usually able to stay on top of these things but I was caught off-guard by this update. So here I am, passing along the info so that more people update to protect their computers.
The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team Blog is what alerted me to the update. The article provides links to the updates related security bulletins. Adobe Flash’s Security Bulletin, APSB10-16, informs us the current version of Flash Player is 10.1.82.76 and addresses five remote code execution vulnerabilities and a vector for a click-jacking attack.
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