I came across this nice little site that allows you to upload your documents and have them converted online, not bad right?
See for yourself: Convert Files Online.
Let me know if you need any help using it.
For those of you that are not designers, nor have any desire to design, but need an ajax pre-loader, ajaxload.info has been built for you.
I found this site or a site just like this one a while back (2-3 years) but never really bookmarked it since it’s just so easy to Google stuff these days. I’m a nice guy so I thought I’d share it with you. It’s pretty cool. You’ll see it being used throughout my site since I am not a designer, nor will I ever be.
Not sold yet?
Listen!
I like to Google stuff a lot, and in my recent bit of Googling, I came across this: IE6 Update.
It’s basically a nice and sneaky way of tricking your users into upgrading to the most recent version of IE. Ethics aside, it’s a pretty cool idea. I mean, IE6 costs businesses millions of dollars in wasted hours in order to support a crappy, insecure browser.
Allowing people to use IE6 to visit your site is like allowing people to have sex with hookers, it’s just not a good idea. Right? Unless you’re into that of course, and I won’t blame you because I really want you to like me.
Kidding aside, install IE6 Update on your site and let’s stop this plague otherwise known as IE6.
Thanks!
I still see on a lot of sites the copyright date being outdated. Shoot, it was even outdated on mine. How embarrassing. Easy fix though. Something I do at work all the time, but since I’m not getting paid for this site, it wasn’t done.
Now, let’s forget the past and move onto the future.
The solution (in PHP):
1 2 3 4 | function copyright_year($year = '2009', $sep = '-') { $current_year = date('Y'); return ($year == $current_year) ? $year : $year . $sep . $current_year; } |
OR, for those that need more lines (I do too. I like to be able to READ my code):
[cc lang="php"]
function copyright_year($year = ’2009′, $sep = ‘-’) {
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So I just finished reading a Web 2.0 book on security. I didn’t really like the book but it did have some things in there that were good, and that’s what this post is about. But don’t buy the book and I’m not going to name the book. You might be wondering why I hated the book (and yet I’m blogging about something good that came from the book), well, the reason I hated the book was because when it mentioned browsers that were unsecure, it mentioned Firefox and Opera. Now, I don’t know much about Opera, so I could care less that Opera was mentioned. But what really drove me nuts was that it mentioned Firefox. It’s like the book hasn’t heard of IE6, the shittiest of shit browsers still available on the market.
But anyway, one plug for Firefox 3.0 – it renders JavaScript faster than the other browsers. I think the only browser that may or may not be faster, is Chrome from Google. Which shouldn’t be a surprise because someday Google is going to own the air we breathe.
I digress. The whole point of this post was to list some security sites for the people out there that want to keep up2date on things. So here’s the list, in no particular order:
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