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Apr32008Dreamweaver Security Update for Flash Video

If you use the “Insert Flash Video” command in either Dreamweaver CS3 or Dreamweaver 8, you should download a security update from the Adobe Web site. Apparently the code inserted by Dreamweaver is open to “cross site scripting attacks.” Adobe doesn’t go into much detail about how these “attacks” might work, but they mention that there is the potential that an “attacker could gain access to the customer’s session by appending a script to the link.” At any rate, you can never be too safe, you should download and install the update.

Click here to download the security update and for instructions on installing it.

You can also learn more about the problem from this security bulletin on Adobe’s site.

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Feb142008XAMPP Madness!!!!

If you’re running Windows, and have set up XAMPP to complete the PHP tutorials for the Dreamweaver CS3 or Dreamweaver 8 Missing Manuals you may be encountering an error with MySQL (if none of this applies to you, then you can skip this post.)

With the latest XAMPP (maybe some earlier versions too) some people are getting error messages (about every 10 seconds) popping up on their screens. The message reads “access violation at address 10002593 in module ‘LIBMYSQL.dll’ read at address 00000000.”

This error has to do with the a program called WinMySQLadmin. To get rid of those annoying error messages you need to:

1. Choose Start > All Programs > Startup > WinMySQLadmin
2. Click on the my.ini Setup tab in the WinMySQLadmin window. This can be tricky because the darn error message windows keep popping up on top the WinMySQLadmin window.
3. In the my.ini Setup tab, there’s a big text box and at the bottom, you’ll see
   user=root
   password=password
4. Delete the second ‘password’ so that those two lines look like this:
   user=root
   password=
5. Click the ‘Save Modification’ button in the left area of the window, and confirm that you want to save your changes.
6. The error messages should stop now. Close all the open error message windows and breath a sigh of relief.

Thanks to the Php bugs blog for this answer.

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Jan112008MAMP download has moved

If you’re a Mac user, who’s interested in learning Dreamweaver’s tools for building dynamic-database driven pages, you’ll want to download the all-in-one web server package MAMP. I talk about MAMP in my book and use it for the tutorials. Unfortunately, the address I give on page 758 no longer works…they moved the download page to another location. So if you’re looking for MAMP you can now download it from: http://www.mamp.info/en/download.html

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Jan102008Look out for Network Solutions

Network Solutions, one of the original domain registrars, is apparently playing a nasty trick on people who use their Web site to search for a domain name. According to Domain Tools blog, Network Solutions is temporarily snatching up the names of domains when a visitor searches for that domain’s availability. This means you can’t register the domain with any other registrar (like GoDaddy.com, for instance) until the domain name is released 4 days later by Network Solutions. It’s an attempt to force you to register with Network Solutions. What’s worse, is the domain name is then exposed to the rest of the world, and unscrupulous domain traders can snatch up the domain name when the 4 day grace period passes–meaning you can lose out on your perfect domain name if you use Network Solutions to search for available domain names.

I just tested this out, in fact, and it’s true! I searched for a .com domain at Network Solutions and was informed that it was available. A moment later, I went to godaddy.com and searched for the same domain, and what do you know? It was taken–by Network Solutions!

You can read more about this at: http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/network-solutions-steals-domain-ideas-confirmed/.

My advice: AVOID NETWORK SOLUTIONS.

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