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Posted by on 1st June, 2004

See your site in other browsers (for free)

As web developers, we all know browsercam.com, a paid service that creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser and on any operating system. With over 12 browsers and many operating systems and resolution, it is an expensive but vital service. I had not seen any alternatives, but now Daniel Vine has written a free service that allows you to see your site as it looks in various versions of Mac, IE and PC browsers. It does not offer the variety of browsercam, but it covers the essential browsers and has won a spot in my favorites. IE and PC browsers: www.danvine.com/iecapture/ Mac Safari 1.2 browser:...

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Posted by on 31st May, 2004

Encrypt email link on web pages

Posting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an inbox full of unsolicited email advertisement. The Enkoder protects email addresses by converting them into encrypted Javascript code, hiding them from the email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. Encrypt here:...

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Posted by on 24th May, 2004

Impressive Flash Game

Circular Breakout – great twist on the old classic of Breakout or also known as Arkanoid. I rarely, if at all, play any games online, but this one caught my attention: great graphics, smooth and natural motion make this game hard to put down. Check it out: Circular...

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Posted by on 20th May, 2004

The History Programming Languages

For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages! O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages (PDF), which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded...

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Posted by on 9th May, 2004

Nice, nice code library

I stumbled across this site and added it to my favorites. It has a nice collection of miscellaneous code snippets and other links too. Psacake Code library Psacake useful other...

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Posted by on 6th May, 2004

Google’s PageRank Explained

…and how to make the most of it. PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page… See the article here:...

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Posted by on 29th April, 2004

Implement your own CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart." What it means is, a program that can tell humans from machines using some type of generated test. A test most people can easily pass but a computer program cannot. You've probably encountered such tests when signing up for an online email or forum account. The form might include an image of distorted text, like that seen above, which you are required to type into a text field. The idea is to prevent spammers from using web bots to automatically post form data in order to create email accounts (for sending spam) or to submit feedback comments or guestbook entries containing spam messages. The text in the image is usually distorted to prevent the use of OCR (optical character reader) software to defeat the process. Hotmail, PayPal, Yahoo and a number of blog sites have employed this technique. This article demonstrates how to create such an image and employ it within an ASP.NET web form....

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Posted by on 22nd April, 2004

Anonymizing Google’s Cookie

If you use Google, and you accept it's cookie, you should give some thought to the implications, both good and potentially bad : this page tries to help you do that, together with an easy way to anonymize it without missing out on its benefits....

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Posted by on 21st April, 2004

Side-by-side code comparison: Java vs C#

Clean and clear code comparisons of all aspects of both languages. This site will get your attention if you know one of the two and thought different of the other one. Also excellent overview for AS programmers, since AS is very very similar to both these languages. Check it out:...

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Posted by on 18th April, 2004

SQL Enterprise Manager alternative

Microsoft SQL Server Web Data Administrator: easily manage your SQL Server and MSDE data, wherever you are, through any browser. Use this tool to create and edit databases, manage users and roles, export and import database schema and data, and more—all from your favorite Web browser. Available here from the Microsoft Download...

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