Archive for March, 2005

ViewSourceWith Firefox Extension

Friday, March 18th, 2005

The ViewSourceWith Firefox extension let’s you choose which application to view the currently loaded page source with as opposed to the default viewer.

How to make a Life Poster

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Mike Matas show you How to make a Life Poster using iPhoto in about 20-30 min and for about $29USD. A life poster is simply a collection of your photos printed on a large poster format.

CSS Inheritance vs Cascade

Friday, March 18th, 2005

The Autistic Cuckoo explains Inheritance vs Cascade as it applies to CSS. Having an excellent concept of these two terms is essential for any developer using CSS. They allow you to leverage the ability to create very lean and mean style sheets.

Integrated Development Environment for Laszlo

Friday, March 18th, 2005

alphaWorks is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Laszlo. The technology preview is an Eclipse-based development environment for creating Laszlo applications using the LZX declarative mark-up language.

RIA Platforms Lend Apps More Flash

Friday, March 18th, 2005

IT Manager’s Journal has an article titled RIA platforms lend apps more Flash and offers glowing reviews of Flash, Flex and Laszlo as web application platforms.

Wear your Spam

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Spamshirt.com prints t-shirts with common spam subject lines. You can even enter your own favorite spam subjects and have them printed as well!

Styling Tables with CSS

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Veerle Pieters shows us how to create stunning tables using a surprisingly small amount of CSS.

Practical PHP Programming

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Practical PHP Programming is an online book by Paul Hudson that covers learning PHP from the ground up. A good place to begin if you’ve considered learning this web development language.

The Next Big Thing in Online Type

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Microsoft will be releasing 6 new fonts in 2006 that will ship with its operating system and other software products. The new typefaces have been created especially for extended on-screen reading.

[via What do I Know]

AJAX Login System Demo

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

James Dam has a nice AJAX Login System Demo. The method has the following features:

  • User does not need to refresh the page to login.
  • User is notified instantly on incorrect username/password combination.
  • Overall user experience is more seamless.
  • Password is not send in plain text ever (more secure than traditional system).
  • Javascript convenience with server-side security (uses PHP/MySQL).
  • Uses one-time use random seed to hash the password before sending (making interceptions useless).