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Archive for January, 2010

New Features: Email Folder Widget

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

LuxSci has added many new features to the email folder display widget.  The email folder widget is available to all LuxSci customers whose email is hosted with LuxSci.  This widgets can be added to any workspace so that the contents of any email folders, even shared ones, can be viewed and managed along side other information such as address books, calendars, notes, file storage areas, blogs, custom widgets, etc.

The email folder widget has been updated to include:

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Web Form To Email – Doesn’t Get Any Easier!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

One of the most ubiquitous parts of a web site is the “contact us” form.  Other types of forms abound  — for collecting customer requests, quote requests, surveys, customer feed back, etc.  In the vast majority of cases, all of these forms send their data to a program on the web server which collects the data and sends someone an email message with the content.  Web form to email.

Quick and easy.  However, the quick and easy solutions to setting this up do not take care of things such as:

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Introduction to Internet Programming with Perl and HTML: Part 2 – Introduction to Programming Concepts

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

This article is Part 2 of our series on Introduction to Internet Programming series. See the Introduction and Part 1, Introduction to HTML. The Introduction to Programming covers basic programming concepts and teaches the reader to develop "pseudo-code" for various tasks.

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Secure Web Pages and Web Forms: What You Need to Know

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Creating a web site that has “secure” components requires more than slapping together some web pages and adding an SSL Certificate.  All a certificate really does is create a thin veneer of security — one that does not go very far to protect whatever sensitive data necessitated security in the first place.  In fact, naive attempts at security can ultimately make the data less secure and more likely to be compromised by creating an appetizing target for the unscrupulous.

So, beyond paying big bucks to hire a developer with significant security expertise, what do you do? Start with this article — its purpose is to shed light on many of the most significant factors in secure web site programming/design and what you can do to address them.  At a minimum, reading this article will help you to intelligently discuss your web site security with the developers that you ultimately hire.

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Tracing the Origin of an Email Message — and Hiding it

Monday, January 4th, 2010

We are often asked by our users to help  them determine from where an email message has originated.  In general, it is fairly easy to do this if you have access to the “headers” of the message.  In this post, we will show you how to determine a message’s original location yourself and also how you can protect yourself from others determining your location when you send email messages to them.

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