About Alejandro Cagnones

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Web Security and your Websites {0}

Through the development of the web it has offered a wide range of benefits, but with it comes the exploits of any system. Among them are threats to personal privacy, data, economy and government threats. Since its inception we are able to get so much done and reap its information for our own use, business [...]

LAMP = Great development platform {0}

Web development can be based on the system called LAMP, which is short or an abbreviation for Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP. This system is said to make up around two-thirds of the Internets servers offering web-based applications and services. Utilizing this system offers developers and administrators a cost effective and innovative way of offering [...]

Security Scanner for your Web Server {1}

Using Microsoft’s own Web Applications Configuration Analyzer you can protect your own web servers from hackers and attacks. Microsoft released the newest version, 2.0, which is a free download. This programs scans IIS Servers, hosted applications, and SQL server instances for common security issues and possible misconfiguration. The security check generates a Passed, Failed, or [...]

JavaScripts grabbing your browsing history {0}

A new study was release by computer scientists at UCSD stating that browsing history can be viewed without your consent through JavaScript code. The scripting deployed by real websites and those of advertising organizations use browser vulnerabilities to see which sites you do or do not visit. Using a process called history sniffing, which sends [...]

Google Dart, a JavaScript replacement… {0}

The web seems to be outgrowing JavaScript, says Google and will need a more modern way of producing better web applications. Today JavaScript is an essential component of the web. Its popular, robust, and widely used everywhere for creating immensely interactive web pages and sites. Google though believes that JavaScript is somewhat flawed in it’s [...]

CSS Helps with Search Engine Optimization {1}

Cascading style sheets is a style language which permits web masters and designers to attach style sheets like spacing, color, fonts and so on to a local HTML file or document. CSS works like a template which can be applied to multiple web pages. There are many benefits to using cascading styles sheets which make [...]

HTML 5 a possible Flash and Silverlight contender {1}

Summary: HTML 5 has been in use since 2008 and will further be developed for the next 5 years to become a true contender against Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX. Though HTML 5 has quite some time to establish itself as a better alternative to these website add-ins it seems like it on the way to [...]

Web UI Design simliar to… GUI Design? {1}

Summary: Web User Interface or merely WUI is still a major issue for designers and the like looking to establish a site to which users can easily navigate, search, and utilize. Incorporating GUI design aspects, the author states, could help with these issues that arise. It sates that the GUI methodology of design is able [...]

Emerging Technologies {2}

Since 2000 the Internet has been through quite a few changes, the article compares the technologies from the year 2000 and 2005 to which new technologies of web design, development, and applications. The comparisons dwell within the browsers to which we use everyday to look at news, applications, articles, information, and so on. Comparisons between [...]

Web 2.0 in Enterprise {1}

Summary: This articles goes into detail about how Web 2.0 is currently being used in today’s Enterprises. Though used a blanket term to describe new technologies and uses to which enterprises can take advantage of to better utilize resources. As an upgrade from Web 1.0, Web 2.0 has many features to which companies can take [...]