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In 2005 Pete Freitag wrote 330 articles on this blog.
Pete wrote about a lot of different topics in 2005, the most popular topics were articles on about cfml, rss, mac, blog, tips, mysql, and coldfusion.
Pete's most popular articles in 2005 were Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed, and The 15 Most Useful Linux commands.
December 2005
- Let the computer do the formatting
- XML 2.0
- Searching for installed RPM packages
- AJAX Tutorial with Prototype
- AJAX Presentation Outline
- It takes more than just PageRank
- Google says disable your firewall
- Bluetooth Cellphone as skype handset
- 24 Ways to impress your friends
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil
- Java Performance Tuning Guide
- Howto Disable the Server Header in IIS
- 20 ways to Secure Apache Configuration
- Vi Tips and Tricks
November 2005
- Howto make Friendly URLs
- Unix Job processing
- Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities of 2005
- Deal Shopping Sites Roundup
- Google Webmaster Stats
- 8 Simple Quotes
- Amazon Adds Tagging
- Get Wheelin!
- Tim's Blosxonomy
- Simple Flex Example
- Simple Flex Tutorial
October 2005
- Oracle's Free Database Server
- DNS Query with ColdFusion
- Prevent Caching with HTTP Headers
- New PageRank Update
- Change size of a varchar column with mysql
- Make your blog better with tags
- Best of 2003 Blog Entries
- MySpace Hacked with CSRF and XSS
- My MySQL Backup Script
- Turn off autocomplete for credit card input
- CheatSheet for Apache
- SoloSub is for button overload
- Why Yahoo Acquired Upcoming.org
September 2005
- MySQL FULLTEXT Indexing and Searching
- MySQL Access Denied error 1044
- Agile Software Development with Jason Fried
- Download a File with wget
- CSS Techniques Roundup - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
- The CSS XML / RSS Button
- How to do a MX lookup on windows
- Best of 2002
- 4 Google Tricks
- Stopping Pre Approved Credit Card Offers
- No I wasn't avoiding you
- Install Apache 1.3 On Gentoo Linux
- Oblique Strategies
- EnterpriseDB - PostgreSQL with Oracle Compatibility
- SELECT a random row with SQL
- Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed
- Google Sitemaps Accepts RSS and Atom Feeds
- Google Site Verification
- Build a directory browser with ColdFusion
- RDS Security Problems?
- Cheat Sheet for PostgreSQL
- Temporary Stored Procedures on SQL Server
- SQL Server Express 2005, Finally Installed
- I got del.icio.us'd
- A whole new kind of CFM
- Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
August 2005
- Faster Inserts with PostgreSQL
- CodeFetch
- Multiple Dynamic Inserts with SQL
- SQL Pagination with LIMIT and OFFSET
- Portable Web Application Firewall Rule Format
- ColdFusion Jobs
- Shell Script for backpack todo lists
- Fresh coat of paint
- Dynamic Java Class Loading with ColdFusion
- AJAX on IE - back to the IFRAME
- MySQL ERROR 1016 (HY000): Can't open file
- Parsing, Modifying, and outputting XML Documents with Java
- Keep in mind that users don't read
- Servlet API Call for Features
- Default Application Datasources in ColdFusion
- MySQL DELAY_KEY_WRITE Option
- Boston Globe Podcast with Jeremy Allaire
- DateFormat, and TimeFormat mask shortcuts
- Studio 8 drops the MX
- How to Disable the Safari RSS Feature
- Howto cool off your car quickly
- Analyzing Words in Spam Emails
- REST vs SOAP Web Services
- Insert Delayed with MySQL
- Case Insensitive Grep Search
- Increase Productivity with Action Tagging
- Octothorp
July 2005
- How to perform a Negative or Inverted grep search
- The 15 Most Useful Linux commands
- 40% use RDS
- Forbes Best of the Web
- How do you structure your web server?
- Apache ServerTokens Prod, ServerSignature Off
- Finding Feed subscribers from the User Agent
- Majority of Surfers use 1024x768 or better
- CF on Rails
- Loss of traffic due to Google sitemaps
- New Poll: Do you use RDS?
- AdSense Optimization Tips (from google)
- RDS Plugin for Eclipse?
- How I block comment spam
- Oracle Critical Updates
- Boston Globe Podcast to feature Jeremy Allaire
- Everybody's turning 10 Years Old
- The client variables debacle
- Annotated Bloggers BOF Photo
- Eclipse 3.1 Million Download Challenge
- Eclipse 3.1
- Stupid, Evil, and Lazy Design
- New Homepage Design
- What we missed last week
June 2005
- American Express does RSS
- How To Make a Tag Cloud
- Auto-Linking Comments
- Mach-II - Hey I'm not dead
- New Balance 991 Review
- Speaking a CFUNITED 2005
- FeedBurner Awareness API
- The MySQL Query Cache
- Performance of database tag schemas
- Guestimating blog feed readers
- Blog Entry Ratings
- Macromedia Example Applications
- How to add RSS Autodiscovery to your site
- The Proper Content Type for XML Feeds
- Multiple Inserts with MySQL
- HTTP Request Smuggling (HRS)
- iTunes Dashboard Widget
- CAPTCHA Codes are not Accessible
- Open Source at Adobe
- Tim O'Reilly on Zorn
- Google Sitemaps Protocol
May 2005
- What's New in XHTML2
- Arrays VS Structures
- Lawn Chairs and Programmers
- Last 100 Comments
- Bad Error Message
- Categories are Dead - Long live Tagging
- Regex to Replace Multiple Blank Lines with One
- Detecting SQL Injection with ScriptProtect
- ScriptProtect in ColdFusion MX 7 not a catch all
- The persistence of really bad ideas
- MarketingSherpa doesn't get RSS
- What CFLOCATION Does
- SQL: Distinct values from two tables
- Multiple Statements with MySQL and JDBC
- Prepared Statements in PHP and MySQL
- No CFCs!
- Search Useability
- Dashboard Widget Tip - Quickly Removing Widgets
- Howto keep Eclipse Plugins between upgrades
- Fonts for Programmers
- Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attacks
- Mac Users on the Rise
- Potential Problems with Google Web Accelerator
- Bug Report hooks for FindBugs and Subversion
- ParagraphFormat is not XHTML Safe
- Amazon Search Dashboard Widget for Tiger
- Over Tweaking
- The Mac Year of the Tiger
- Tiger (Java 1.5/5) on Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4)
- The Time Traveler Convention
April 2005
- High Performance MySQL
- Designing from the outside in
- Firefox Tip: Begin Finding when you begin typing
- Spammers now using ASCII Art
- Upgraded to BlueDragon 6.2
- Macromedia Flex Hosting?
- Identity Theft
- The Day After the Storm
- Web Standards Browser Test
- Linux getting the shaft in ColdFusion 7
- CFFUNCTION and CFARGUMENT don't support new types in ColdFusion 7
- Web Distrbuted Data Exchange
- Phishing - Over 90% at risk
- ReturnPath aquires BondedSender
- SSL for International Domain Names
- How to Remove Search Plugins in Firefox
- Related Posts
- Laszlo gripes resolved
- The default cfsqltype for cfqueryparam
- Blocking Mozilla / Google Prefetch
- Thread Priority, and Yielding
- 6 Tags for ColdFusion beginners
- CFIMAP Rocks - And so does IMAP
- QuickSilver
- How HTML Validity Affects E-Mail Deliverability
- Connection Failure with Yahoo Web Services and ColdFusion
March 2005
- ColdFusion Administrator Defualt Settings
- Exploring Ruby on Rails
- The Genius of iPod Pricing
- Trackback Salt
- SanOS
- Trackbacks working on my blog
- Trackbacks with ColdFusion
- New Online Poll, CF Edition Pole Results
- BlueDragon adds new Tags and Functions
- SQL Reserved Key Words Checker Tool
- REFind and ReReplace support and
- Apache Modules - Top 10 List
- Engineering CSS
- Function to get Page Title from a URL
- Regular Expressions
- API Blog
- Domain Name Transfers
- Regular Expressions - Named Capture Groups
- Usability Tip for Visited Link Colors
- Prepared Statements with JDBC
- Freitag Bags
- OpenSearch by Amazon's A9 Search Engine
- Resetting your page output
- Mach-II User Group Meeting and User Group Web Site
- Hash in ColdFusion
- Blog Reader Survey
- Mach II
- DocBook vs Apache Forrest
- Where are my ALT tooltips in Firefox
- Soulive
- Free Live Music Downloads
- Stopping HTTP Referer Spam with ColdFusion
- Amazon Context Specific Recommendations
- Some handy Eclipse Keyboard Shotrcuts
- Use Case Articles
- Wasting Time with Laszlo
February 2005
- Do you use NerdCaps?
- Jeremy Allaire Launches New Media Company BrightCove
- How long does it take to get a Google PageRank
- I give up! Installing SQL Server 2005 Express
- StarOffice 8 Beta looks like Microsoft Word
- Microsoft adds SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition
- Forta's ColdFusion MX 7 Books on Sale
- Powerbook Sleeve Cases
- Parsing Atom Dates (ISO8601) in ColdFusion
- Eye Tracking
- Using Subversion Hooks to send out build emails
- Top 10 Things I like about subversion
- Strong Encryption Technote shows undocumented features
- If-Modified-Since and CFML Part III
- Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP
- Mac OS X Multiple Virtual Desktops
- If-Modified-Since and CFML Part II
- Supporting If-Modified-Since HTTP header in CFML
- Poll Results: What Version of CF, New Poll What Edition
- MySQL Slow Query Log File
- Apache mod_rewrite URLs Also Provide Validation
- Changing the Eclipse Splash Screen
- JavaScript Debugging with Safari
- Macromedia and New Atlanta on Expert Group
- Firefox Statusbar Extensions
- CFTIMER - Little things in ColdFusion 7
- Apple and Mac Blog Aggregator
- cfdirectory adds recursive support - Little Things in CFMX 7
- IsValid - CFMX 7
- ColdFusion 7 Strong Encryption
- CFPARAM - New Features in CFMX 7
- ColdFusion MX 7 on Mac OS X
- Installing multiple versions of CFMX on JRun
- ColdFusion 7 Tags and Functions added to cfdocs.org
- Joel Spolsky to give Keynote at CFUnited / CFUN 05
- New Poll: What version of CF are you running in production?
- What IDE do you use?
- Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed
January 2005
- SHA or MD5 Digests in ColdFusion
- Function to Remove Extended Characters
- SPF and DomainKeys Plugin for Thunderbird
- Macromedia names new CEO
- Amazon DevCon
- O'Reilly Designer's Notebook Series
- PostgreSQL 8 Released
- Color Contrast Checker
- Understanding MSDE 2000's Limitations in Web Applications
- More on Sunbird and Subscriptions
- Mozilla Sunbird
Archived Posts
Some of the posts I wrote in 2005 have since been archived:
- Web Design Patterns
- New del.icio.us FireFox Extension
- Add an Amazon Wishlist to your Blog or Site
- Now with Gravatar
- Refurbished MacBooks, iPods, iBooks, and More
- AJAX vs Flash
- Want additional DB or OS support in ColdFusion?
- Google Blog Search - Not Impressed
- Information Scents
- How to Comment Code Better
- Behind the scenes at Adobe
- Critics skeptical of Fusion in a Jar
- Search Engine Ranking Factors
- DOJ taking a closer look at Adobe Macromedia Merger
- Have a good firefox extension idea?
- Some del.icio.us Tips
- Macromedia Site Search Broken
- Free Chapters in Apache Security
- cfmx.org
- Adding an XSL StyleSheet to your RSS Feed
- Subversion commit message validator pre-commit hook
- Prediction Market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends
- GreaseMonkey User Scripts
- Macromedia and OS X v10.4 / Tiger Compatibility
- Please do not go to this website!
- Eclipse Spell Checker Plugin
- Fooling Amazon
- Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for $95
- Textamerica MoBlog Developer API
- Objection - Firefox Extension for removing Local Shared Objects
- c|net Falls for April Fools Joke
- Flash Cookies - Local Shared Objects
- Apache mod_rewrite for IIS
- Another Trick for Avoiding Email Harvesters
- Google Code
- Mike Nimer is blogging
- Google AdLinks
- PostgreSQL for Mac OS X
- Linux and OS X Shell Commands
- Borland takes Strategic Developer role in Eclipse Project
- Free SSL Certificates for OpenSource projects
- Bea JRockit 5 JVM Released
- Java 1.5 for FreeBSD Patchset Released
- onEclipse - improving productivity of eclipse users
- Microsoft Solution for Securing Windows 2000 / 2003 Server
- Joel on Hardware
- Triggers in MySQL 5
- Yahoo!'s new Y!Q Service
- How to write Efficient CSS
- Web Application Form Layout
- a9 Search Engine adds Yellow Pages
- jTDS 1.0 Released
- Amazon RSS Feeds for Finding Deals