From the feature well: With a new year underway, pretty much every IT shop has a budget to stick to, and a whole raft of demands to render that challenging. But there are ways to make the most of your dollars. Take agile scripting, for instance, but budget appropriately. We’ve got 7 such project types where you’re most likely to either overindulge or come up short in 2007. Best of the blogs: Martin Heller calls the prototype property “one of the most interesting parts of the JavaScript language,” adding that “this is extremely powerful. It is also extremely dangerous. Using prototyping, an attacker can hijack standard functions in a way that breaks security without causing any error message.” He goes on to explain just how it works in Subverting AJAX: Prototype highjacking. The news beat: Hewlett-Packard offers two new touchscreen PCs for Windows Vista. Nokia introduces a mobile phone designed specifically for bloggers. And Brocade buys Silverback Systems for its processors that speed up data movement via the iSCSI protocol. Live chat: Author John West, “The Only Trait of a Leader”, joins associate editor Richard Gincel at 11 a.m. PST to discuss the fundamental skills required to become an IT leader. The hour-long chat will take place in the InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect careers room. (Free registration required.) Technology Industry