Array Studio Reading List - a list of useful books

Prevent content / bandwidth theft April 30, 2004

Recently we had content theft problem on one of the sites we worked on. Content theft or bandwidth theft occurs when somebody links directly to an image (or any other file) on your server and displays it on their page.
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BASIC celebrates 40th Birthday

At 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 BASIC has been born and marked beginning of personal computing. Year before (1963) two Dartmouth’s College professors, Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, had an idea to create computer language that would be easy to use, but strong enough to make use of ‘63 computers - that idea produced BASIC.

Many of today’s computer languages have roots in BASIC most notable is Visual Basic (which obviously has similar name), but also some other languages such as Java use same principles like original BASIC.

You can read more about BASIC birthday in an article: BASIC Computer Language Turns 40. In addition, you might want to look at Wikipedia entry on BASIC.

PHP Sessions and security April 19, 2004

Chris Shiflett wrote an article on the topic of PHP sessions and ways to implement secure sessions or at least more secure then ordinary PHP session mechanism. Article is called “The Truth about Sessions” and has been published in PHP Magazine. It can be useful both for novice and experienced programmers because it starts with session and HTTP basics and ends up with discussion on session problems and possible solutions. If you are considering creating more secure site you will find this article useful.

Time Machine April 13, 2004

Recently we were going through some old backup CDs and, as you probably know, you can find some strange things there (especially after over 10 years of programming and web development). Anyway, we have stumbled on old versions of Array Studio site and that sparkled idea that we should make an Array Studio Time Machine. In Time Machine section of our site we would conserve all previous versions of our site.

Currently there are two old versions in Array Studio Time Machine one dating from 2002 and second from middle of 2003.

In addition to our Time Machine, you might find it interesting to see Array Studio site on Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

B-MAN Stock Photos

While I was seeking for inspiration throughout the Net one place jumped to my face. B-MAN has excellent royalty free stock photos, some very interesting tutorials.

And A LOT of inspiring stuff! Check it out now!

Welcome to Array Studio Blogs! April 5, 2004

We have decided to create a set of Array Studio blogs that will be maintained by our members. Posts will contain everything from Array Studio news to regular IT news, tutorials, site reviews, tips & tricks, etc.

We hope that this will be useful to our visitors and clients.

If you have any suggestions or comments please don’t hesitate to contact us and let us know what you think.