Raesene's Ramblings

There's an interesting new beta project from google launched today, which allows you to create custom search engines which focus on a given topic area by customising which sites are indexed as part of the search. I've created a couple of one's in areas that interest me .
I think that this could be really useful for targeted searches as it can cut out a lot of the "spam" and other less relevant sites from the search results.
This one is an Information Security Search engine. At the moment it's based on some sites which I use (list below), but if there are other ones that anyone would like to see include just leave a comment, or feel free to volunteer to help out on the search engine front page.
Anyway here's a link to the Information Security Search Engine Homepage
and here's an embedded version which google provide the code for

Information Security Search Engine

Current site listing (24/10/2006)

isc.sans.org
msdn.microsoft.com/security
www.cert.org
www.securityfocus.com
www.stupidsecurity.com
www.mckeay.net/secure/
www.schneier.com/blog/
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html
www.sans.org/reading_room/
sunbeltblog.blogspot.com
taosecurity.blogspot.com
www.red-database-security.com
www.isc2.org
www.cccure.org
secunia.com
www.mccune.org.uk
www.securityforum.org
www.issa.org
csrc.nist.gov
www.cisecurity.com
www.dhanjani.com
financialcryptography.com

Ever gone looking for some insight into your latest rails conundrum and ended up finding answers for the wrong language that mention ruby elsewhere in the page? I know I have.
Here's an interesting new beta project from google launched today, which allows you to create custom search engines which focus on a given topic area by customising which sites are indexed as part of the search.
I think that this could be really useful for targeted searches as it can cut out a lot of the "spam" and other less relevant sites from the search results. Also while you can get the same effect by using the site: parameter, doing that about 20 or 30 times per search doesn't really appeal.
So here's a Ruby on rails Search. At the moment it's based on some sites which I use (list below), but if there are other ones that anyone would like to see include just leave a comment, or volunteer to help out on the search engine front page.
edit: Looks like quite a few people in the RoR community had this idea.... so rather than have lots of different searches doing the same thing I've removed my one.
But if you're looking for a RoR search engine head over here to the Ruby Inside Search Engine

Site Listing

http://www.rubyforge.org/
http://www.ryandaigle.com/
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/
http://www.loudthinking.com/
http://www.slash7.com/
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/
http://www.rubyonrailsforum.com/
http://www.ruby-forum.com/
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/tags/rails
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.37signals.com/
http://www.rubyonrails.com/
http://blog.t0fuu.com/
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/
http://www.railtie.net/
http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/
http://cardboardrocket.com/
http://www.danwebb.net/
http://mephistoblog.com/
http://curthibbs.wordpress.com/
http://www.softiesonrails.com/
http://nubyonrails.com/
http://www.rubyinside.com/
http://www.height1percent.com/
http://www.straw-dogs.co.uk/blog/

SimpleConsole - Building Console Apps
Interesting looking idea. I know that a lot of the work I do tends to revolve around writing little command-line scripts so anything that helps with that can only be a good thing

After seeing all the great uses people are finding for Google's new Code Search I thought, "yeah these are useful, but what would be really useful would be to use this to find out what language is most likely to drive programmers mad!"
So I developed a rigourous methodolgy which primarily consists of searching for code invoking the name of Great Cthulhu ! What surer sign of madness than using the name of a great old one!
so without further ado, here's the results of my painstaking search.

From this we can clearly see that C is leading the pack, with TCL obviously a pretty mind-bending second place.

.:: nothern-monkee ::.
Another interesting looking SQL injection tool to look at.

The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection
One for my handy links collection

Redmond | Feature Article: Server Core: Windows Without Windows
Interesting looks like Microsoft are working on a cut down version of vista for certain core services. This is one of the things that's bugged me about windows for ages (why does a server need a media player!!) and I think one of the main things that'd hampered their activitie s in creating a more secure operating system.
Looks a touch basic at the moment and I'm left wondering how easy it will be for 3rd party vendors to get their software running on it (it would make complete sense for things like database servers to use this rather than a default install of windows), but it's definately a step in the right direction.

OPEN-LABS
Some more stuff to look at when I get a chance.

xssdb

Wapiti - Web application security auditor
hmm... A python based web application scanner. Not come across this one before...