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6 Shocking Things I learnt about Paypal

6 Shocking Things I learnt about Paypal in the past years… useful, shocking and make sure you plan for it.

DrupalWeb Development

Module for comment notification for anonymous users

You guys might wonder why I brag about all the cool features of Drupal and found so many great reasons and fancy features for using Drupal but still run movable type in a stone-age version here

well Marketingfan was already migrated to Drupal 2 months ago and I found one simple thing missing…

Comment follow-up notification mails for anonymous AND registered users with EASY unsubscribe option as we know it!

Web Development

Recursive underscore to hyphen conversion rule for mod_rewrite

improved mod_rewrite rules for recursive pattern replacement

Linux

POP mailbox flood overkill

A crazy script, a bad firewall config and a nice weekend with my girlfriend… now I got the following answer when connecting to my POP mailbox +OK You have 45819 messages totaling 96581259 octets from /home/cemper/mail/cemper.com/christoph/inbox (partial cache v9) Very…

Spam

Economic Death Penalty - Spammer Must Pay $11.2 Billion

Economic Death Penalty – interesting new aspect in law

Projects & Management

Influence of weblogs on knowledge work

New survery on influence of weblogs on knowledge work

Oracle

42 bugs in Oracle Metalink - revealing sensitive customer data

Orace Metalink hacked for 42 bugs – revealing client info

Projects & Management

Extreme Culture in XP projects

Do you already have an “Extreme Culture” in your XP project? Do you lead an XP project? Do you know everything about the XP process? Are you aware about the need for the “extreme culture” in your project? Culture is…

Projects & Management

Writing for JDJ

Kirk Pepperdine and Joseph Ottinger sent me an e-mail last weekend asking if I would write a guest editorial about management issues for the Java Developers Journal I've been reading your blog and must say that it's been very…

Security

W32.Sober.C@mm reached me already

Got the "W32.Sober.C@mm virus"http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.c@mm.html in a mail today… it pretended that somebody logged my IP (which was a wrong one) for illegal activities and that the Kriminalpolizei Düsseldorf, Europa Sonderkommission "Internet Downloads" (which does not exist) is responsible for me…...

Java

Net-Speed vs. Register.com

Wow – just noticed that probably all the customers of the domain-registrar net-speed.com are sort of angry on ex-partner register.com…

MarketingXML & Web Services

Direct Marketing with RSS

Greg Reinacker's Marketing by RSS inspires me and others like Dwight and Derek to think about user-tracking for RSS feeds via HTTP Redirects when fetching the feed. One mind-twist seems to be the transfering of User-Ids (as object-ids, numeric values,...

Projects & Management

Project Blog (Klog) alive

Rick Klau tells us in K-Log Pilot Recap about a 30 day trial with project blog’s using Radio at his company, a 125-person software company based in Chicago, Illinois developing CRM software for the professional services market (law firms, consulting…

Java

JBoss 3.2.2 RC 2 (Development Releases) and Jboss 3.0.8 production release

Released some hours ago: JBoss 3.2.2 RC 2 (3.2.x Development Releases) and Jboss 3.0.8, from the JBoss 3.0.x production release branch variant. They say the new versions only have minor feature enhancements… JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans…