If you are anything like me, you probably keep forgetting various passwords for various websites. Yes, Google Chrome, just like most other web browsers, remembers passwords for you, but what if you’ve forgotten the password and need to enter it on another site? Following is a little trick that you can use to display...
One of the first things I noticed when porting Plak from Google Maps API v2 to Google Maps API v3, was that AdSense ads, displayed by google.maps.adsense.AdUnit, didn’t look quite the same as ads displayed by the old GAdsManager. In the ad unit options I used position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_BOTTOM, and while this does put the...
I guess that moving away from Microsoft rubbish was too much for them to handle. This is what you get when you take .Net developers and introduce them to Apache and Tomcat: -
While XSS security limitations, imposed by most browsers, do make a lot of sense, the “same domain different port” limitation really does overstep the bounds of security anal retentiveness. The “same domain different port” limitation works like this: Let’s say you have a web page that loads from http://mydomain.com/, and on that page you...
For those of you that don’t know about Node.js, basically, it is a highly scalable server-side version of JavaScript, which can be used in place of (for example) PHP, and it doesn’t require a web server like PHP does. If you’d like to find out a bit more about Node.js, have a look here...
If you are anything like me, you probably also have a love-hate relationship with Google Translate tool. Love it because it is easy to use and does a fairly good translation job, and hate it because it makes page loading so damn slow. Google suggests that you use the Translate tool by copying the...
A few days ago I received the following email from Sedo: - Dear Sedo Member, Our advertising provider has notified us that a significant portion of the traffic associated with your domains has been deemed “spam” traffic and is therefore ineligible for Sedo’s parking program. As part of Sedo’s responsibility to our advertising partners...
Ever since my spat with the “Firefox security experts” in November 2009, Wizz RSS has been using two levels of HTML sanitation. This has been due to the fact that nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() doesn’t perform as advertised. According to people like Wladimir Palant, nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() is the only way to ensure that HTML, rendered within the Chrome...
private int getPR() { Random generator = new Random(); int pr = generator.nextInt(11); return pr; }