Check out the cover on the Summer 2010 edition of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly: I saw it at my local Barnes & Noble bookstore and had to buy it for its complete awesomeness. The one thing 2600 has, every issue, is cool cover art. I don’t know the exact system to which these tape cartridges [...]
Killing Tynt’s “Read More:” Clipboard Copy Hijacker With The Adblock Plus Plug-In For Firefox
I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]
How To (Not) Add Numbers In JavaScript, And How To Troll
And now, for some levity, courtesy of Andrew Clover at doxdesk.com: An obvious trolling of Stack Overflow (and one which they have removed), but a funny one, nonetheless. (Click for full-size pic) So full of win, from start to finish. Even the “Related” links are hilarious. FYI, bobince — the straight man in this joke [...]
Dynamically Adding JavaScript To Your ASP.NET Master Page From A Child Page
A common challenge when working with ASP.NET master pages is how to dynamically add JavaScript that is relevant to a specific child page. In other words, maybe your site has 10 child pages that share one master page / template. One of them is, let’s say, a contact us / directions page, and on that [...]
Automatically Wiring Up XHTML Element Events On Page Load With jQuery
Many Web developers find themselves in an environment where the design of a Web page is handled by a graphic designer or junior programmer, either as part of their team or from a subcontractor or the client himself. Unfortunately, traditional HTML / XHTML requires most element events handlers — onmouseover, onclick, onfocus, etc. — to [...]
