Finding A New Job, Week 2 - Preparing for the Interview... What to ask employers - Jim Bolla

Honeypot Captcha - Phil Haack
' To exploit this, you can create a honeypot form field that should be left blank and then use CSS to hide it from human users, but not bots '

Beware of SOA in a box - Nick Malik
' When you buy a product from a vendor (including Microsoft), you are buying more than tools. You are also buying the constraints that drove the assumptions in the tools. '

K. Scott Allen : 10 Tips for Shrink-wrapping ASP.NET Applications
' 4. Look at the licensing of third party components before looking at the feature list
9. Be wary of impersonation '
Some point you easily overlook/forget about

Journaling - Steve Pavlina
The always-positively-minded Steve shares his free advise: just write it out!

Installing WordPress - WordPress Codex
Yep, that means I'm working on leaving blogger and finally moving to a real domain

Blog Hosting, Domains and Blogging Platforms - What We Wish We Knew - Darren Rowse
This really gives me inspiration...

*** Enough With The Rainbow Tables: What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes - Thomas Ptacek
Some coherent remarks on the rainbow tables we all read about over at Jeff's. Go read it whether design, development or just programming is in your line of business, you will learn smart things here!
I implemented a simple password solution years ago making use of md5 and storing the hash in the database. Rainbow tables are *very* useful at cracking those hashes of course. Given the fact that lot's of sites undoubtedly still use their sites, or even store them in plaintext(!!) as Jeff Atwood himself notes in the comments (no direct link)
Of course, after :-) implementation I started reading about salts, and the fact that md5 is by no means safe anymore, even at that moment.

Usability and familiarity - i like ellipses…
' (...) the [Office 2007] ribbon is at this point in time an example of an unfamiliar, but very usable concept '

Off-the-Shelf RAD is for Pimps, Hookers, and Johns--Not Marriage - Evan Hoff
' One of the more ironic things in our profession as .NET developers is the business decision of Microsoft to pimp the long-tail of the developer tools market '