http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress Random software musings Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:52:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently needed to achieve interoperability between ColdFusion and .NET in terms of encryption; in this case, consuming a ColdFusion web service in .NET. I used the Adobe article, Strong encryption in ColdFusion MX 7, as a resource. Although the encrypt function takes IVorSalt (initialization vector) as an optional argument, we need ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2010/08/decrypting-aes-encrypted-values-from-coldfusion-in-net/ One of my Joomla sites on shared GoDaddy hosting got re-infected this morning with this malware, which runs this script from every php file that it infects: <script src="http://holasionweb.com/oo.php"></script> Interestingly, none of my other GoDaddy sites have got infected yet (and this blog is running an older version of WordPress), including one ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2010/05/holasionwebcom/ If your application uses NHibernate in a web farm, there is already a second-level cache provider that you ought to be familiar with: NHibernate.Caches.SysCache2, which supports expiration based on SQL table or command-based dependencies.  Whilst this is a decent solution, it does cause your whole cache region to be invalidated ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2010/02/nhibernate-caching-solution-for-web-farms/ Making the move to Windows 7 Professional 64 brought about a plethora of problems, some minor and some not so minor. Fortunately most of the troubles were shared with other developers, and information is there to be found using our favourite search engines. If you're a Flex developer, like me, you might ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2010/02/adobe-flex-builder-3-problems-in-64-bit-windows/ I won't duplicate information contained on other websites, but I will refer to them here instead. How your machine gets infected by Gumblar, or a "Gumblaroid" (Gumblar-type exploit) such as Martuz http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/05/07/gumblar-cn-exploit-12-facts-about-this-injected-script/ http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2009/05/18/martuz-cn-is-a-new-incarnation-of-gumblar-exploit/ http://www.pcauthority.com.au/forums/yaf_postsm289075_A-nasty-virus-called-Gumblar.aspx How to determine if your PC has the infection http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/showthread.php?p=194695 These were the symptoms that I noticed on my PC: 1. My Visual Studio ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2009/05/automatic-removal-of-gumblarmartuz-trojan/ The Elgg documentation describes the REST API rather superficially, yet provides no samples, and is now inaccurate for the recent versions of Elgg. After a minor modification to your .htaccess file, using the REST API is very simple, and, in many cases, avoids the need to create individual files in your ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2008/12/how-to-use-the-rest-api-in-elgg-11/ Out of the box, Elgg 1.1 has three access levels: private, logged-in users, and public. A few people have asked about how to add a further access level: friends. Currently, the only way to give friends access to an item is to create a friends collection, then specify that collection ... http://www.danielansari.com/wordpress/2008/09/adding-friends-access-level-to-elgg-10/