There’s a bit at the following blog on Google’s launch it’s new social networking api: Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network site that implements it with the same calls. You can check out the post here: [...]
There’s a component from the Joomla Extension Gallery called perForms which helps you create custom forms for your Joomla powered Web sites. I’ll list below the simple steps to install perForms. The first thing to know is that perForms is a Joomla Component, so you’ll need to download the Zip file for perForms and then [...]
Those Russian spammers are hard working folk. I’m starting to see lately that my visitor logs receive pretty predictable traffic patterns from what I’m going to come out and guess are Russian spammers. You’ll see a pretty standard traffic pattern, something like: 206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 “http://diethylpropion-51581sf4.pechenka.info” 206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 “http://www.kliky.net/quickies/wordpress-editor-keyboard-shortcut/” 206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 “http://www.kliky.net/quickies/wordpress-editor-keyboard-shortcut/#comment-523″ 206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 “http://www.kliky.net/wordpress-editor-keyboard-shortcut/#comment-523″ 206.63.89.165 [...]
There’s a few discussions on password management when building Web applications. The first post from Coding Horror entitled, “Your Probably Storing Your Passwords Incorrectly” urges developers to NOT store passwords in plain text, which is the true and correct method. Within the comments section is a good discussion on the topic with many links to [...]
There’s a blog post with 125 Web Designer resources worth taking a look at: http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/2007/05/18/125-code-snippets-for-web-designers/ This is not my list! I snagged the list from tutorialblog.org, I’ve just compiled it all into a single resource. Below are 125 handy HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX snippets for your site or blog. Incoming search terms:web design code [...]
Here’s a blog post with a nice list of PHP Tools: http://immike.net/blog/2007/08/15/5-tools-every-php-programmer-should-know-about/ I’m especially interested in Phing, a project build system, which I’ll be using for an application I’ll be building in partnership with another company. Here’s a bit summary from his blog on Phing: The idea behind phing (and other build tools) is to [...]
This guy thinks so: A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to add a new technology to their blog. The problem is what happens when a lot [...]
I just had to post this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/eric_schmidt_defines_web_30.php Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run [...]
A function of PHP’s; ctype_alnum can be used to test a string for alpha numeric characters. It will count a space as non-alphanumeric (which is right), so you can use it like so: $string = “test !ng”; if ( !ctype_alnum(preg_replace(‘/[[:space:]]/’, ”, $string)) ) echo “stringy baddy” That’s about it. Funny thing is that it takes [...]
At some point I got into my Windows Add/Remove programs and noticed around 5 versions of Java’s J2SE Runtime Environment Update. Each version is listed as so: J2SE Runtime Environment #.# Update # Each of these average around 120MB, and that’s a lot of disk space. Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) provides a complete [...]
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