Open Source Text Editors
As an old UNIX developer, I spent a significant portion of my work experience using VI, as my development environment…
Open Source File Compression Software
For years I was an advocate of PKZip and WinZip (That I own a "floppy" disk of), but after discovering…
Version Control comments
When working on large, multi-group projects I've found that it often helps to have information about the 'version' of an…
Open Source Image Editing Software
I'm usually a considered by most to be just a "programmer", but occasionally the need comes up for someone to…
Exploiting Browser History via CSS
Marketing people will likely love this hack. Information Security types may dislike the exposure of potentially sensitive information. Browser Accessibility…
Dynamic Site Navigation with AJAX
Recently a navigation challenge that I encountered was "better" resolved by implementing an AJAX "like" solution. While not a complete…
A Flexible AJAX Framework
AJAX = Asyncronous (but not always), JavaScript, XML (Text or JSON). These technologies have been around almost as long as…
Href Links as HTTP POST (complex DOM solution)
The earlier post, while easy to implement, has some well known security issues. Now lets get around them. First we'll…
Href Links as HTTP POST (simple solution)
Another interesting challenge, The standard <a href="..."></a> style link performs an HTTP GET, however you might want to perform a…
What is a SLD (Second Level Domain)?
I just wrote about the TLD, so this naturally follows: A SLD includes the TLD name and further identifies the…