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Google AJAX Language API first impressions

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on March 21, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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Darn I have been one-upped by Google and they finally implemented a serviceable API onto their language translation services! Google announced yesterday a new AJAX Language API and while language detection is not high on my priorities the actual “contextual translation” of HTML and TEXT has always been of great interest to me.  In fact I [...]

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Category: Uncategorized

Parallel FX & Threading for newbies (like me.)

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on January 9, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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This is my first real foray into writing threaded applications (I use worker thread's in ASP.Net applications quite often to do small tasks) and taking a peek into how much more effort it will add for managed code apps (.Net.) First let me throw out that I consider new stuff technologies kind-of a pain in the butt [...]

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Category: Multicore, Software Engineering

Google Gears - 4th hour working with Gears

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on October 4, 2007 at 2:05 pm
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In memory of my friend Steve T - The wandering electron! OK so here it is, after a bit of mulling around I finally found a good use for Google Gears! (I would find about a thousand more but they keep me locked up in my cube with a stack of ToDo items.) Use Case for a web [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Hacking Intel - XSS Security exploit with ASP.Net using .RewritePath and Request.RawUrl bypassing ASP.Net native script protection

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on September 20, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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Hacking Intel: XSS Security exploit with ASP.Net using .RewritePath and Request.RawUrl bypassing ASP.Net native script protection (.Net 1.1 and 2.0) What is XSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting XSS also called Cross-Site Scripting is a web based security vulnerability by which a person injects HTML or Client side script code into a web page without the knowledge of the originator [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Google Gears - 3rd hour working with Gears

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on September 4, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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Ok here I am in my third short session (1 hour today) working with Gears to better understand what the heck I can do with Gears. What I really want to get out of GG is the ability to make my web pages haul serious a$$ for load speeds. Based on my earlier time spent with [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Getting in Gear with Google Gears

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on August 31, 2007 at 11:54 am
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Forgive the free flow of consciousness within, after-all I am a developer and we all tend to talk to ourselves (and listen to loud music.)  I keep asking myself what can I do with Google Gears and think well, hmm, not that, no that would not work either, ah - nah - nope that would not buy me anything [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Linden Labs Second Life - A dirty little secret!

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on June 28, 2007 at 7:44 pm
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NixHex Hax of ElectricWebsites.com was chatting at me a few minutes ago and pointed out to me that Second Life has a web browser embedded in user profile screen. NixHex runs a popular WebDeveloper group within SL is building a rapidly growing following in the virtual space. In fact IMHO the outreach will probably best [...]

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Category: Software Engineering

Everyware Computing, Voki For Web and Second Life

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on June 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
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"Everyware is an attempt to describe the form computing will take in the next few years." Adam Greenfield Those of you that are familiar with Second Life and perhaps know about the Intel Software Network SIM might already realize that Everyware exists now. Second Life is a very rich environment where just about everything can sense and [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source, Software Engineering

Google Developer Day 2007 - I made it!

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on May 31, 2007 at 8:24 am
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Today is Google Developer Day 2007 You can join the and you can streaming sessions if your not at the event already. There are some promising new technologies like Google Gears which allows offline-web applications and provisioning API for .Net that are worth looking at (I'm sure there are others both those items relate to my work-eco-space.) Google [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source

Second Life - Virtual Thinking Innovations

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on May 24, 2007 at 9:34 am
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Let me pose the question "What's really new in computerdom?"  Standards have been set, new ideas popup and Google buys them out but what is really new in the area of computer innovation that spans the globe and gets a global acceptance?    Let's face it if the we can't even get past the browser wars when will [...]

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Category: Gaming, Open Source, Software Engineering, University Curriculum

ISN Site Updates from 8-10 PM PST Thursday

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on May 24, 2007 at 7:50 am
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Expect sporadic site issues with Intel® Software Network sites tonight.  We are moving some site functionality to new load balanced servers (ISN Login, ISN Registration pages, etc..) so while the updates are in process and links updated you might see some issues. Be patient while the changes (link updates etc..) propogate their way through our systems. Kevin Pirkl (ZombieBob Zenovka is SL)

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Silverlight 1.0 - We're gonna find out where you fans really stand.

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on May 8, 2007 at 11:14 am
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Mix07 is over and the buzz over the blog-sphere is Microsoft Silverlight!  What is it?  Streaming media, a richer UI for the web, a better client side processing engine perhaps or all of the above.. Sorry if this appears to be a bit of a rant (I plan to use Silverlight so don't take my thoughts the wrong [...]

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Category: Uncategorized

Portland Code Camp V3.0

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on May 7, 2007 at 11:11 am
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Pass it on.... Back again by popular demand (an in your in the Portland, Oregon area) Portland Code Camp v3.0 (<----- Click here to get started) May 19/20, 2007 - WSU Vancouver It's camping time in Portland! Mark your calendars... Code Camp is back May 19th and 20th! With a month to go, Portland Code Camp v3.0 is on track to [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

Postcard from Second Life

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on April 30, 2007 at 9:21 pm
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Found this very cool Intel Logo in Second Life and thought it would be worth sharing.... (Cross Posting testing as well) We are always doing our testing here in Intel Land... posted by ZombieBob Zenovka on Live Without Boundaries using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

AJAX Usage on ISN - Code Security

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on March 26, 2007 at 11:16 am
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It is getting more and more common to use JSONP style data passing and callback functions ( example ) for cross domain or same sub-domain data sharing. As more and more developers start walking this path some attention to security needs to be re-addressed. Take the following snippet of code for instance taken from a C# [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0

jQuery Framework comes to Intel WebSites "ready or not"

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (16 posts) on February 26, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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Behind the scenes of the ISN Web Site and from the web heads to you... Ready or not and backed by popular demand amongst the web developer staff ISN group comes the community supported jQuery JavaScript Library to almost all ISN web pages and many pages outside our group as well (perhaps to the surprise of [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source