Archive for January, 2004

Apache Content Negotiation Explained

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Apache Week has a good article that explains Apache’s Content Negotiation Features. Content Negotiation is an often over-looked feature of Apache, but correctly used it can let you present documents in different languages and formats.

1800+ Photoshop Tutorials

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Good-Tutorials.com has over 1800 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. Topics include:

  • Effects
  • Text Effects
  • Photo Effects
  • Photo Retouching
  • Web Layouts
  • Web Graphics
  • Drawing

The site offers many tip and tricks for beginners as well.

Free JSP Custom Tags

Monday, January 26th, 2004

Coldtags Suite is a collection of over 100 JSP custom tags. The tags range from calendar display to client-side validation to SOAP and XML parsing.

Really too many tags to list here, but from my experience, the tags are all of top quality and free for use in non-commercial projects. Conact the authors if you would like to use them in commmercial applications.

Clear HTTP Auth – Mozilla Extension

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

If you’ve ever tested a web app that uses any kind of HTTP Authentication, you’ll know how annoying it is to have to shut down your browser to retest the authentication. Clear HTTP Auth is a Firebird/Mozilla extension that simply allows a user to clear any HTTP authentication data currently stored by the browser

Gorgeous Photos

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

A Daily Dose of Imagery is a fantastic photoblog from Sam Javanrouh of Toronto. The images are beautiful and updated daily.

15 Trends in Logo Design

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

Graphics Design USA discusses 15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design.

Character Entity Reference

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

A nice HTML & XHTML Character Entities reference is available at cookwood.com.

The site is the official site for HTML Visual Quickstart Guide and offers many other HTML related references.

Penguin Ball

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

A hillarious Flash game, smack the pinguin tests your reflexes as you attempt to hit a home-run with a penguin!

I’ll have to remember this game the next time I’m fighting with my Linux server!

MusicPlasma – Awesome Flash App

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

musicplasma is a music visual search engine that produces a visual map that shows all the artists that match your musical taste.

The results are astounding. I typed in “John Mayer” – who is one of my favorite artists at this time – and about 80% of the related artists that the map displayed are currently in my iTunes lists! So amazing that I will probably spend the next few days checking out the music of the remaining 20%!

Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Google has just released Orkut which is a social networking service much like Friendster.

Although I don’t find social networking services to be very interesting, I do like the fact that all employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests. Now if only my employer would adopt this policy!