Monthly Archives: October 2008

AJAX Charts

componentart.com Have some very nice components if your looking for out of the box AJAX UI / Charting
Great for a paid version of Open source flash charts

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Purify your HTML – Strait Laced HTML Filtering

Often running your HTML through the HTML Purifier is a good idea, for those seeking out of the box html purification in a nice easy to work with download.

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Widgetised Page Parts – Page Flakes

Its a brewing AJAX requirement in modern web dev – Moveable, dockable, widgetised web pages. Google may not love it but the idea is good for the end user. Page Flakes is the ultimate example of this widgetised page segmented idea.

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Take Colour Scheme from a webpage

When you want to find out the basic colour scheme or base a colour scheme on a photograph colr.org is handy – I have a self-written similar script which psychologically helps pages pretty factor considerably.

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Programming Quotes

A lot of programmers say a lot of things.. Quotes on Programming

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Rickroll – Eternally

You may be aware of the comic genius of RickRolling. Essentially its a pretty hilarious thing – Try installing this firefox rickroll extension – you will understand.

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Graphics Cards do more than render games

Some people look at a graphics card in a whole new way. Specifically using it to hyper-crack passwords. Scary stuff considering so much money goes into heavy duty cards.

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Secure network?

If you think yours is, it may not be. Almost oxymoronic as the term is, expansion can be kept secure, but not without a lot of learning and pre-emptive policy. With the addition of usb switchblades podslurping isnt restricted to stealing your music.

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ClickJacking

A few points about ClickJacking, something which could have attackers watching your webcam without you knowing (or a whole lot more likely clicking ad’s you didn’t want to!) ClearClick was said to kill clickjacking but sources say this isnt the case.

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Learn C++

Why not? (because its hardware relevant my friend tells me) If that doesnt put you off or you disagree – start learning here

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