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Monday, 10 March 2008
Good news for standards based developers. Microsoft have now decided that IE8 will comply with web standards by default.
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Friday, 10 March 2006
If you’re a software developer, string concatenation is something you do regularly, irrespective of the programming language you use. While languages such as C, C++, Perl and PHP all support the very useful sprintf() function, the VB/VBScript developers have traditionally had to resort to using a combination of single and double quotes, escape characters, text, line continuation characters and ampersands (&) to get the job done.
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Monday, 20 February 2006
Displaying “mailto” links in web pages is much less widespread than it used to be in the good old days, largely thanks to the proliferation of web scraping spam harvesters.
The email obfuscator uses a simple trick to effectively camouflage an email address which may be embedded in a web page. Considering that HTML supports character encoding (decimal and hex) in web pages, it’s possible to make text just a little more difficult to decipher for spambots, while still making it meaningful for humans.
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Friday, 9 September 2005
When putting together dynamic web applications in an ASP environment, developers use ADO recordsets for the overwhelming majority of their database interfacing. Although most web applications will involve data entry forms, where the user will insert, update and delete database records, the biggest performance issues are in presenting recordset output to the client browser.
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Tuesday, 30 August 2005
For quite some time now, the more vigilant Windows IIS administrators have typically been configuring their hosts to have the “filesystem object” removed, due to an inherent security flaw which permits a malicious user to gain access to the servers directories and files.
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