If you have a form on your web site like feedback or suggestion form and if you are in the mail list, you won’t be surprised to get hundreds of spams from those forms. To avoid this some web sites ask users to copy letters from an image. Here is another good but simple idea to get this done. It uses CSS to play a trick with the spam robot. Please read.
Archive for June, 2007
An Open Letter to the Software Managers of the World
June 26, 2007Dear Software Managers of the World:
We, the Software Developers of the World, realize that our two factions have had many disagreements over the years. Through this letter we would like to extend our hand in a gesture of reconciliation.
This letter contains two lists: the first list describes responsibilities we are willing to accept wholeheartedly, assuming you are willing to accept the second list with an equal amount of zeal and commitment. These lists are not intended as indictments of either side, rather glimpses of an ideal world where developers and managers work together in harmony. Read More
Check Your Personality on Programming
June 25, 2007Below is the programmer’s personality test. It is based of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test and has been changed to relate to your programming personality type. This is not a joke test and is really only relevant to programmers, however anyone is welcome to take the test. There are 12 questions with 2 answers for each question and you must choose one answer from each and every question. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers, your answer will simply show what type of personality you have. Read more
In Programming, One Is The Loneliest Number
June 24, 2007“Is software development an activity preferred by anti-social, misanthropic individuals who’d rather deal with computers than other people? If so, does it then follow that all software projects are best performed by a single person, working alone?” Read more
A Good Source of AJAX
June 21, 2007“Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we’ve used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces and functionalities, which used to be the privelege of professional desktop-applications….” Read more at link
Do you know anyone of them?
June 19, 2007“This is the web site for a new book I’m working on for Apress which will contain interviews with around twenty of the most interesting computer programmers alive today. It will be a companion volume to Apress’s Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, and, like that book, a continuation of the tradition started by the Paris Review in 1953 when they published a Q&A interview with novelist E.M. Forster, innagurating a series of interviews later titled “Writers at Work”. As the words “at work” suggest, my goal is to focus the interviews on how subjects tackle the day-to-day work of programming. Which is not to say we won’t touch on other topics such as how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting. —Peter Seibel”
Desktop Apps are dying?
June 11, 2007I don’t believe web-based applications will replace the desktop apps totally. How to open a web app, yes you need a browser – a desktop application. I do believe some desktop apps can be streamlined into web based ones. Please read this article:
OS Market Share for May, 2007
June 6, 2007Don’t know if those numbers are accurate, but it does give you a view of OS market share. I don’t believe Windows 98 is still used 1.24% higher than Linux that is used only 0.70%. Even Windows ME is used 0.62%. For details, look at here.
