Recommended books section updated

    Posted At : March 13, 2007 8:08 AM

The recommended books section of the site has just been updated.

I recently downloaded bookpedia for my MacBook. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend it. A few minutes of bar-code scanning through the built in iSight, information download from amazon and my library was updated. It also has a neat export feature as well as "borrower" tracking and reminder emails.


A recent comment on blogcfc.com encouraged me to modify the code that protects my application against brute force attacks. The following article recommends escalating the failed login delay based on the number of failed attempts. While this will not bother legitimate users, it will definitely annoy and possibly prevent the potential hacker (then again, do you really want to annoy hackers?)

The following code snippet implements the delay in ColdFusion.

<cfif [login successful...]>

<cfelse>
   <cfparam name="session.FailedLogin" default="0" >
   <cfset session.FailedLogin = session.FailedLogin+1>
   <cfset createObject("java", "java.lang.Thread").sleep(JavaCast("int", session.FailedLogin*500))>
</cfif>

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