Archive for May, 2008

Weekend Link Roundup: Week 10

The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet - Pretty much all the major SEO topics combined in one sheet.

How to build a maintainable site using Cushy CMS and Twitter - This is a great tutorial that builds a personal bio page from scratch that can be updated with twitter and Cushy CMS. Read more »

Validating Telephone Numbers With PHP

There are many different ways a user might input a phone number. Sometimes they may choose to input it as, (555) 555-5555. Other times they will use 555-555-5555. As a developer we never really know how they might input the number. Often times we can give our users an example and they will still enter the wrong format. Read more »

“Rick Rolling” Your Hard Drive

If you remember back to my article about dd you will remember that it is a very powerful utility for writing to hard drives. In this post we are going to use it to “rick roll” the hard drive. I will show you two different “rick rolling” methods as well as describe what a “rick roll” is. Read more »

Using wget to Download Youtube Videos

Today I am going to show you a neat way of downloading Youtube videos using wget. Most Linux distros will come with wget. If you don’t have it, check with your distro for instructions on how to install it. Windows users can get wget here. Read more »

Weekend Link Roundup: Week 9

Design Pattern Library - Yahoo has made a collection of web design patterns that they see. This is very interesting. Check it out.

New Order - One of my favorite security resources.

Special ALT Characters - Here is a list of ascii characters and how you type one. These are great to add to your passwords to make them more secure. Read more »

Rotate Ads with PHP

There comes a point where a site can have too many advertisements or there simply isn’t enough space for another ad. We also don’t want to distract our users from the content too much. This is where ad rotating can come in handy. With rotating you can have two ads displayed in the same space. Read more »

One-Time Use Credit Cards

A new era of credit card protection is here! Paypal is offering disposable one-time use credit cards free of charge. You don’t even need to even own a credit card to use them. A simple Paypal membership will suffice. Read more »

50 Reasons Why I Love Linux

I love Linux so much I made a list of 50 reasons why I love it so.

1. I can extract something with one command without opening a separate program.

2. I can print a document without opening it.

3. I can update all applications with two magical words, apt-get upgrade.

4. Its free Read more »

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