• HP WebInspect software - HP - BTO Software - HP WebInspect performs web application security testing and assessment for today's complex web applications, built on emerging Web 2.0 technologies. HP WebInspect delivers fast scanning capabilities, broad security assessment coverage and accurate web app
• Watchfire - AppScan Suite for Web Application Security Testing - Watchfire® AppScan® automates web application security audits to help ensure the security and compliance of websites. Named the worldwide market-share leader according to Gartner and IDC, our AppScan product suite offers a solution for all types of web
• Bayden Systems - TamperIE - amperIE is a simple Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object which allows lightweight tampering of HTTP requests from Internet Explorer 5 and above.
• HttpWatch: An HTTP Viewer and HTTP Sniffer for IE 6 & 7 - ttpWatch is an HTTP viewer and debugger that integrates
  with Internet Explorer to provide seamless HTTP and HTTPS
  monitoring without leaving the browser window.
• BindShell.Net: BeEF - BeEF is the browser exploitation framework. A professional tool to demonstrate the real-time impact of browser vulnerabilities. Development has focused on creating a modular structure making new module development a trivial process with the intelligence r
• Source Insight Program Editor and Analyzer - Source Insight is a revolutionary project oriented program code editor and code browser, with built-in analysis for C/C++, C#, and Java programs, as well as other languages. Source Insight parses your source code and maintains its own database of symbolic
• 0×90.org // [Absinthe :: Automated Blind SQL Injection] // ver1.3.1 - Absinthe is a gui-based tool that automates the process of downloading the schema & contents of a database that is vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection.

  Absinthe does not aid in the discovery of SQL Injection holes. This tool will only speed up the process

• Net-Square: httprint - httprint is a web server fingerprinting tool. It relies on web server characteristics to accurately identify web servers, despite the fact that they may have been obfuscated by changing the server banner strings, or by plug-ins such as mod_security or ser
• Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin for Ruby on Rails - CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you?ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
• HTTP and HTML Analyzer software and Browser Automation Web Testing tools - IEWatch is a plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer that helps you achieve your web development and web analysis tasks more efficiently. Combining power and flexibility with ease of use, IEWatch appeals to an entire spectrum of web professionals:
• Parosproxy.org - Web Application Security - We wrote a program called "Paros" for people who need to evaluate the security of their web applications. It is free of charge and completely written in Java. Through Paros's proxy nature, all HTTP and HTTPS data between server and client, including cooki
• Category:OWASP WebScarab Project - OWASP - WebScarab is a framework for analysing applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is written in Java, and is thus portable to many platforms. WebScarab has several modes of operation, implemented by a number of plugins. In its mo
• PortSwigger.net - Web application security - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for attacking and testing web applications. It contains the latest versions of all the Burp tools, including:
• Dust-Me Selectors - Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.

  * Install now!
  * Download the source files
  * Blog post
  * What's new in Version 2.0
  * The User-Interface
  * Preferences

  It extracts all t

• Crosscheck Browserless Testing Framework | The Frontside - Crosscheck is an open source testing framework for verifying your in-browser javascript. It helps you ensure that your code will run in many different browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, but without needing installations of those browsers. The
• My Little Sandbox Playset Big Builder - Kids love to dig in the sandbox. And now they can anytime–rain or shine! These super fun tabletop playsets encourage imagination and lots of calming sensory input! Includes 10 x 10 x 2 wooden sandbox, 20 x 20 "No Mess" playmat, ultra fine sand, 2 die-cas
• Beanstalk ? Version Control with a Human Face - Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion system, making it easy to setup, browse, and track Subversion. Beanstalk has built-in integration with your favorite tools such as Basecamp, FogBugz, Campfire and more. Take a quick tour.
• Web Page Snapshots and Web Page Thumbnails of Any Website Free - Take web page snapshots and website thumbnails of any site with SnapCasa. Place a simple img tag in your HTML page and our website thumbnail generator will provide a snapshot for you. Increase site traffic and click-through rate by including snapshots on
• Home :: I Vote For Art :: Browse, rate and buy art the easy way - I Vote for Art? is a brand new place to buy great art at a reasonable price. Please have a look around … If you like a piece, make sure you click on the thumb to vote for it. Or perhaps you could even buy it!
• DbDumpScript - Django Code - Trac -
• Hackszine.com: Star Wars music played by a floppy drive - I assume it's a hardware hack that manually controls the floppy drive's stepper motor, but it'd make my day if this was done in software using standard I/O requests. Either way, the 3.5 inch FDD finally serves an important function again.
• Django Pluggables ? Find reusable applications for your Django project, quickly and easily! -
• friendsnippets.com - Copy, Paste, Share your code! - » all your snippets in one place
  » bookmark snippets for yourself and friends
  » check out what other people are bookmarking

• skwpspace ? Useful git commands and quirks - Things I?ve learned from my first git experiences. First of all, git is inconsistent as hell. Every command has its own quirks and syntax, so I?m attempting to catalog some of them here. We?ve been using git svn at Planypus as a way to maintain loca
• Signalfire - Stay in contact with your teams from
  anywhere with Signalfire group chat.
  Signup for Signalfire
  Many Chatrooms, One Place

  Signalfire is a group chat web application. It allows you to
  participate in many groups, either public or private.

• BitNami :: HowTo: Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug - After following these steps you should have an Aptana RadRails intstalltion, which RubyStack?s Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick and other libraries, and provides visual debugging.
• Do we really need Controller and View tests? - Don?t overload controllers with responsibilities. Put logic in your models instead. This approach is usually called ?skinny controller / fad model? (Jamis Buck wrote about it here and here, Courtenay of caboo.se also wrote an article).
• eigenclass - rcov: code coverage for Ruby - rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:

  * fast execution: 20-300 times faster than previous tools
  * multiple analysis modes: standard, bogo-profile, "intentional te

• Flying Machine Studios » Blog Archive » Announcing Palmist - # Make it easy to work on one request at a time
  # Highlight duplicate queries
  # Show the time each query takes and total db time
  # Link to EXPLAIN
  # List general MySQL optimization tips
• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor - a Ruby regular expression editor
• Balls: Rotopault Kinetic Sculpture Is Mezmerizing - About 30 seconds after I clicked play on this video of Brad Litwin's latest kinetic sculpture, Rotopault, I said "cool" and flicked my mouse to close the window. And then I just kept watching. It does the same thing over and over again: Launches a ball as
• Cubescape - Your own digital landscape - Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
• News: AirFox Live Helicopter Streams Traffic, Utter Chaos - The Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD has embraced a touch of Justin.tv with their new AirFox Live helicopter feed. Viewers can now visit the AirFox website and view Google Maps GPS tracking of the chopper, along with a real-time video feed sharing whatever it s

• SystemTap - SystemTap provides free software (GPL) infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system. This assists diagnosis of a performance or functional problem. SystemTap eliminates the need for the developer to go through the
• Who Needs an API? ? err.the_blog - Pledgie being the venerable service it is, I decided one night it couldn?t possibly be that hard to integrate it with GitHub. It?s a pretty standard Rails site with some simple forms to make the magic happen (eg. setup a donation page).

  They don?t

• delinkydink - Google Code - A firefox extension that watches your del.icio.us "links for you" page and alerts you with a message when a new one exists. You can then click on the link and it will open it in the browser for you. To send your current page to a del.icio.us user in you
• Getting Paid the Open Source Way ? GitHub - This afternoon we?re rolling out the ability for every public project on GitHub to, dare I say, make money. You?re now one click away from adding a Pledgie badge to any of your projects. Pledgie is a great service offering a simple and effective way t
• SimpleViewer Download - # Intelligent image pre-loading.
  # Intuitive image navigation
  # Lightweight (17k).
  # Customizable interface - Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
  # Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
  # Cross platform - Wi
• doctype - doctype - Google Code - Doctype is a Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.
• Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents - Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.

  Totlol is in early testing phases and this means that at most times, most things, will work as most would expect. But someti

• Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management - You want a network you can manage, not a network that manages you! You wish you could have it… without spending a fortune. Your wish is granted.

  Introducing the free Spiceworks IT Desktop and Community. Used by 325,000 IT pros in 194 countries. Spicewo

• Firebug and Logging - Having a fancy JavaScript debugger is great, but sometimes the fastest way to find bugs is just to dump as much information to the console as you can. Firebug gives you a set of powerful logging functions that you can call from your own web pages.

• Step3Profit.com - Step 1. Register domain name

  Step 2. ???

  Step 3. Profit

• Color Wars 2008 » Youngme / Nowme - Users duplicate a picture of themselves from when they were younger - same pose, the current "me" by the child "me." The results are fascinating." Link
• FreeBookSpot | Download e-books for free - Free Book Spot is a free e-books links library where you can find and download free books in almost any category.
• Custom PuTTY Color Themes - igvita.com - nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default dark-blue/green/red colors against a black background in PuTTY
• PuTTY Tray - PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY (Win32). It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use.
• * Ruby Script Beautifier - This Ruby beautifier is itself written in Ruby, and it is surprisingly short. It will undoubtedly get longer as time passses and its ability to handle borderline cases improves.
• sweeper :: snax - Automatically tag your music collection with metadata from Last.fm.
• A Ruby Learning Hub - Free Online Ruby Programming Course by Satish Talim
• LiveValidation - Validation as you type - LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outsid
• Codefluency: Introduction to Ruby - if you?re looking for a brief, code-centric overview of Ruby?s language features and syntax this might be the ticket
• Talent Community | Talent Network | Aspiring Talent | Find Gigs | Casting Calls | Get Famous - We're an entertainment community for up and coming talent and their fans. The goal of this talent network is to help aspiring artists get famous, build industry contacts, and find paying gigs. Click here to see how it works.
• Plugins - SuperExceptionNotifier - Agile Web Development - The SuperExceptionNotifier plugin provides a mailer object and a default set of templates for sending email notifications when errors occur in a Rails application, as well as a default set of error page templates to render based on the status code assigne
• Google Website Optimizer Announcements - Google Website Optimizer (which was originally launched as a closed beta test in October 2006) has finally dropped its ?Beta? label and been made available as a standalone product, Google announced yesterday.
• Clips: How to Fix the Internet (According to South Park) - In the fantastic South Park episode last night ("Did you guys see the ghost?") most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma?
• Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Problems of Social Bookmarking Today - Part One - Can you imagine the on-line world without del.icio.us, reddit, digg, dzone and other Web2.0 social bookmarking sites? Sure, you can - they were not always around and nobody missed them before they appeared.

• Onlinephototool.com: online image and photo editor - On Onlinephototool.com you can edit and save your images, screenshots and photos online. If you want to save your images online you need to register. Resize, crop, add text, sharpen, rotate, flip, colour balance, saturation, levels, paint, add icons, sepi
• W3Counter - Website Analytics, Realtime Web Stats and Web Counter - You shouldn't need training to figure out your web stats program. W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who's your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.
• grassyknoll - Google Code - GrassyKnoll is a search engine written in Python.
• 11 Odd but Simple Ways to Improve Your Health - Instead of just getting by, this list will get you started with some uncommon ways that you can help you go above and beyond to create total health.
• Free Software Oasis: Unhider - Small utility to hide or show any window on your desktop. Sometimes after crashing Windows Explorer we cannot get access to our programs that was minimized to system tray. This utility can help you to find and unhide any hidden window.
• Railscheck project home page - Railscheck - The semi-static Q/A verification tool for your Ruby on Rails projects This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that
• About Big Sister - # monitor networked systems # provide a simple real-time view of the current network status # notify you when your systems are becoming critical # generate a history of status changes # log and display a variety of system performance data
• Welcome | AppDrop - A proof-of-concept, to show that Google's App Engine platform can be ported to other hosts. Unlike Google's project, we make no claims to be able to scale beyond a small amount of traffic. We reserve the right to shut the whole thing down at any time.
• Confreaks: Expert Recording and Networking Services - Have you ever attended a conference and thought, "This is great! I wish I could watch it again later."? Have you ever noticed that most technical conferences seem to completely overload the networking capacity of the venue? So have we!

These are my links for April 5th through April 11th:

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