Linkification

Linkification
The first in a (hopefully) on-going collection of interesting links.

Web Happenings / News

Xero: 2000 Customers - Congrats guys from a happy customer
VFX Manager: A new addon application for managing your XNet VFX service
NZ Communications website launched - several jobs available too
Mobile banking - on Kiwibanks new iPhone and Windows Mobile internet banking site
China Netcom falls prey to DNS cache poisoning
Palm Treo Pro launches around the world with Windows Mobile 6.1 - looks promising
One hundred pushups twitter challenge
Google street view car in Wellington

Community

Auckland .Net code camp 2008 - hurry times running out to register, see you there!
Hawke's Bay IT User Group - if your in the bay then why not sign up and come along to the next meet up?

iPhone / Apple

Vodafone NZ released new iPhone plans
Make an iPhone ringtone with iTunes in windows
Learn how to develop for the iPhone - Web apps that is
Programming for the iPhone really sucks - using the SDK that it
Apple iTunes shows how New Zealand ISPs are not providing internet service

Code

Very handy javascript memory leak detector
The future of .Net reflector - development taken over by Red Gate Software
Mega awesome CSS resource list


Other

20 must have geek ringtones and text message alerts - and 10 to avoid!

Multiple Vendors Vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning
Multiple vendor DNS protocol implementations could allow a remote attacker to poison the DNS cache.  Patches that resolve the vulnerability on the DNS may be rendered ineffective if the DNS is behind a NAT device that does not randomize ports. Public exploit code was made available on July 24, 2008.  At the time of this update, neither X-Force nor IBM MSS has witness any active exploitation nor the integration of this exploit into any exploit toolkits.

GNU/Linux popularity around the world
Pingdom has produced a nice article about the popularity of GNU/Linux around the world. They did that by using Google's search insight, and show maps for the popularity of Linux in general, as well as various distributions.

For example, here... (more in the full post)