Posted by Miguel Moreno on 9th December, 2004
I rarely write about anything off-topic, but this requires a post… "After reading a story in the NYT, Jim's wife Heidi came up with a method to fight back against the obnoxious cell phone users that we all have to deal with in stores, restaurants, trains and pretty much everywhere else. That's right. We're tired of having to listen to your loud, obnoxious conversations. We don't care about your new haircut or what "he" might have said to you the night before. (We couldn't believe it either!) It doesn't interest us in the least whether or not you are going to attend the company Christmas party or when you...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 8th December, 2004
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability, which affects most browsers. The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious web site to hi-jack a named browser window, regardless of which web site is the true owner of the window. The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website. The site includes a live test with the Citibank.com and it works every time. The solution is not to browse untrusted sites while browsing trusted sites. [button...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 6th December, 2004
Writing a Web application with ASP.NET is relatively easy. So easy, many developers don’t take the time to structure their applications for great performance. This article presents 10 tips for writing high-performance Web apps. It is not the definitive guide for performance tuning Web applications; an entire book could easily be devoted to that. Instead, think of this as a good place to start. [button link=”http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/ASPNETPerformance/default.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 6th December, 2004
There are many sites that offer IQ tests for a fee. This one has decent tests and gives you a score right away. If you score higher than 126, you are allowed to subscribe to be a member of the club. Update: I scored 127 and (barely) managed to go on to the members page. Well, it turns out that you have to pay $65 dollars to become a life-time member. I wonder the prestige it has to be a member of this society and if it will actually help with a job-hunt or something similar. I think I am going to pass for now… [button link=”http://www.highiqsociety.org/flash/nonmembers/iqtests.htm” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 3rd December, 2004
As a kid I had several Radio-Controlled models; a speedboat, an electric car, a gasoline powered car and an airplane that flew 50 meters and never flew again… I guess it is one of those toys that is neat for kids but really cool for adults. It has been a while since I picked up a new hobby, but this site made me seriously consider getting back into it. Gravityshots.com makes photography and video of anything that needs to be shot from a different angle. With camera-mounted helicopters, the views and imagery is truly breath-taking. They have an archive of almost 3000 images (watermarked). [button link=”http://www.gravityshots.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Recent_Images&reference=ALL&model=&location=ALL” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 30th November, 2004
Although you can theoretically create a new Web site under a new virtual root (a child path under your default Web server) this presents a big problem: the new Web site would have to be aware of this path offset when referring to itself with absolute or relative paths. The advantage of having a new and independent virtual server is that it only recognizes its own virtual roots and paths. In other words, in any of your virtual folders in the default web server, a path of "/images/…" would point to the root of your Webserver's (wwwroot) folder and not the root of the virtual folder! While you cannot...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 25th November, 2004
Clever approach of providing pseudo-real-time statistics on world metrics such as Population, Environment, Economics and many more using Javascript. This is an interesting and very sobering site to visit and to realize truly how good we (or some of us) really have it. [button link=”http://www.worldometers.info/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 23rd November, 2004
This article describes a popular ASP.NET popup control that imitates the MSN Messenger alert (when a user logs on/off a tiny windows slides into the bottom right of your screen with a messages), but it is designed for use in an ASP.NET web page. Graphical appearance of this control can be completely changed by using one of predefined styles or by modifying all colors used on the control. The control works with latest version of Mozilla, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. You can also use HTML in the control properties, in order to include graphics or anything else. [button link=”http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/asppopup.asp” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
Posted by Miguel Moreno on 23rd November, 2004
1001 free fonts is a popular free fonts archive online. They receive more than 35,000 visitors daily and we have been visited by over 25,000,000 visitors since 1998. Over 350,000,000 cool fonts have been downloaded since 1998. If you need a font, look here first. [button link=”http://www.1001freefonts.com/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...
