programming

Google Gadget Generator [121 words]
To build a Google gadget it is best to start with a completed web application. Your application may be Javascript, php, perl, cgi, or some combination of these with HTML. It can be...
michaelthompson.org

Scroll Bar Navigation - No Clicking Required! [123 words]
This is a way to navigate through webpages without clicking - just use the mouse wheel. ... a demonstration of a method for browsing through a list of web pages using only the ver...
michaelthompson.org

Get a Website's 'Spam' Rating [70 words]
Applied Bayesian Filters uses Spambayes e-mail filtering application to rate the 'spaminess' of a given website. You can even submit sites to train the Bayesian filter or access th...
echo3.net

Adding the Tracking Code for Google Analytics [438 words]
Do you need to add the tracking code block to every webpage on your site? Depending on the nature of your site and the tools you use to publish webpages this can be as simple as f...
www.google.com

Experimental: automating website content [193 words]
Phase I is simply an archived version of this blog but it will have other elements soon. The ultimate goal is to automatically construct a site perfectly optimized for search engin...
mygeeto.com

Javascript Solution: getIP function demo application [91 words]
Here is a demo of a Javascript designed to get the current IP address. A key element of the algorithm is that it makes a synchronous XMLHttpRequest to a server php script, i.e. ip ...
michaelthompson.org

Weblog Remodeling Underway [110 words]
The weblog has a new look and a few new features. The most notable change is the topical index at the start of the log which consists of all the labels associated with these entrie...
michaelthompson.org

How To Write Unmaintainable Code [83 words]
The cardinal rule of writing unmaintainable code is to specify each fact in as many places as possible and in as many ways as possible.... from the tongue-in-cheek article by Roedy...
thc.org

Hello World [112 words]
How the way people code "Hello World" varies depending on their age and job: pre { font-face: "Courier New"; } High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END ...
www.gnu.org

The Graphing Calculator Story [429 words]
The remarkable Ron Avitzur relates how Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator grew from being a cancelled project to shipping on over 20 million machines. "Pacific Tech's Graphing Cal...
www.pacifict.com

EA: The Human Story [363 words]
Electronic Arts is one of the largest video game companies. These are excerpts from an open letter written by the spouse of an EA employee. "...they asked him in one of ...
www.livejournal.com

Walmart IT Says "No outsourcing" [101 words]
"...there is no way Wal-Mart would entrust its IT services to an outside contractor or even to several outside contractors. Doing so would threaten the entire organization. If cost...
www.pbs.org

8 Rules of Security [1 words]
From ...
silverstr.ufies.org

NetBSD Security [23 words]
The NetBSD Project adopts the same approach to security as it does to the the rest of the system: Solutions and not hacks...
www.netbsd.org

Why We Don't Need to Know All the Answers Before We Begin [319 words]
THREE RULES FOR EVOLVABLE SYSTEMS Evolvable systems -- those that proceed not under the sole direction of one centralized design authority but by being adapted and extended in...
www.shirky.com

1024 x 768 most common screen resolution [20 words]
Screen Display Statistics Screen ResolutionJul 02Oct 02Jan 03Apr 03Jul 03 1024x768 or more44%45%46% 47%49% 800x60050%49%47%46%44% 640x4803%2%2%2%2% Other or Unknown3%4%5...
www.w3schools.com

Adapt [88 words]
Dylan Evans, The Guardian: "As our society becomes ever more dependent on information technology, the gulf between those who understand computers and those who don't will get wider...
www.guardian.co.uk

Newsfeed Validator for RSS [26 words]
This is an excellent free service that can be used to validate RSS newsfeeds. It is written in python and the source is available for download....
feedvalidator.org

First C Source in the Comics? [5 words]
from Bill Amend's Foxtrot 3-Oct-2003 ...
images.ucomics.com

Hexadecimal Time [75 words]
"The hex clock arranges time in a more consistent and logical manner than our present clock. Instead of dividing the day into arbitrary divisions (twenty-four hours in a day, sixty...
www.intuitor.com

patch-and-pray [75 words]
"Software today is massive (Windows XP contains 45 million lines of code) and the rate of sloppy coding (10 to 20 errors per 1,000 lines of code) has led to thousands of vulnerabil...
www.csoonline.com

First Computer Bug Found, Sep 9th, 1945 [86 words]
Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators a...
www.history.navy.mil

Hacker Contest [26 words]
A weekend hacker contest resulted in "the messiest day in the whole Internet history," disabling hundreds of websites from Brazil to the Netherlands, security experts said....
sify.com

Darwinian Economics [262 words]
Winston Chai (CNET Asia) with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen "...large companies usually focus on developing more advanced products to meet the needs of...
zdnet.com.com

unix confidential [183 words]
echo Mhbqnrnes Stbjr | tr [a-y] [b-z] Porting from Win 16 to Win 32 #include "win31.h" #include "win95.h" #include "evenmore.h" #include "oldstuff.h" #include "bill...
www.programmersguild.org

HTML Status Codes [79 words]
HTTP Status Codes: ************* 100 Continue 101 Switching Protocols 200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted 203 Non-Authoritative Information 204 No Content 205 Reset Content ...
www.w3.org

Oracle On 64-Bit SQL Server: We're Not Impressed [209 words]
Robert Shimp, vice president of database marketing at Oracle: Microsoft has flip-flopped on its scalability message, now touting "scale-up" rather than "scale-out" improvements....
www.internetwk.com

THE PROGRAMMER'S QUICK GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGES [1511 words]
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder but when you do it blows away your whole leg."- Bjarne Stroustrup YOUR PROGRAMMING TASK: To shoot yourself ...
michaelthompson.org

Buffer Overflow Anatomy [120 words]
void main(int argn, char **args) { char buff[32]; // overflow occurs when argument // length is greater than 32 characters strcpy(buff,args[1]); ... } ...
www.linuxjournal.com

'Black Box Method' Leads to Brain Prosthesis [72 words]
The world's first brain prosthesis was developed using the BlackBox Algorithm: "No one understands how the hippocampus encodes information. So the team simply copied its beh...
www.newscientist.com

Giving Users "Fitts" [51 words]
The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. - Fitts' Law Interface usability is often ignored or poorly addressed. There are a number o...
www.asktog.com

Origins of PHP [94 words]
php traces it roots to a 1995 perl application designed to track accesses to Rasmus Lerdorf's online resume. Two years later, his subsequent open-sourced C implementation of his Pe...
www.php.net

Is Your Site Viewable With Any Browser? [51 words]
Many websites are not displayed properly when viewed with browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. A common mistake is to omit a closing tag - without it, Netscape brows...
www.anybrowser.org