Category Archives: Web

Spammed by WordPress comment stealing bot with Facebook profile

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Maris

Some time ago (1/2 year, may be 1 year) strange comments started to appear in our WordPress comment moderation queue. They all contained some random comments from random places, they all had the similar URL: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is profile … Continue reading →

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Online CPU benchmark now with user comments

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Maris

Two weeks ago we launched a New version (v1.5) of online CPU benchmark – SilverBench. This new version allows users to post comments — details about their tested machines. Of course these comments are optional and completely anonymous if user … Continue reading →

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How to execute JavaScript after inserting into element.innerHTML automatically

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Maris

Here is a scenario: you have some software/component that inserts partial HTML into page using JavaScript element.innerHTML function; you can insert any HTML tags including <script>; you can not call any JS function (software/component does not have such functionality), and … Continue reading →

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On production machine: AjaxControlToolkit requires ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 scripts.

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Maris

I was helping my colleagues to debug one weird bug on ASP.NET 4.0 website. Everything worked well on developer’s machine, but after publishing to IIS 7.5 Windows 2008 R2 Webserver, we always got site partially working. Everything worked, except AJAX … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 3

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Maris

Interview With Sacha Barber in The Code Project. The ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and “value is the same” is used to indicate “nothing has changed”. However, … Continue reading →

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Urih.com statistics – you never know what will be most used feature

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Maris

22 weeks (or 5 months and 5 days) after urih.com launch, here we have an interesting stats. Clearly, the most used feature on the urih.com is SilverBench – online CPU benchmark tool. The opposite – the feature that no one … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 2

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Maris

Stack Overflow profiler open sourced: Profiling your website like a true Ninja. Smaller is Faster (and Safer Too). Chrome team have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. Read more. Ask Amir … Continue reading →

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Strange HTTP GET requests from IP 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Maris

Recently I started to notice that one of our sites gets strange HTTP GET requests from two IP ranges: 150.70.x.x and IP 62.24.x.x. The short version of this goes as follows: we have web service when users can submit results … Continue reading →

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Error while receiving Verisign Authenticode certificate

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Maris

Today when I was downloading/receiving Verisign Authenticode certificate I got the following error window: ————————— VBScript ————————— Error: 1AD occured, your certificate may not be co`rrectly installed ————————— OK ————————— Then I was redirected to the page with the following … Continue reading →

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2011 links no. 1

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Maris

3D Software Rendering Engine – Part I by darkoman. Fluent CSV/XML Exporter For List by Sacha Barber allows to export / save any C# container to CSV and XML. Push Framework – A C++ toolkit for high performance server development … Continue reading →

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