We’ve all seen CAPTCHAs. They are those little images that pop-up with some distorted text. You have to type the text to set up a new account, see an e-mail address, etc. They’re designed to differentiate a real human from a computer ‘bot’. Computers can’t interpret the distorted images as well as humans, so they [...]
I ran across a blog entry from Jeff Atwood at Coding Horrors this morning talking about my favorite programming language, javascript. Traditionally, javascript has the reputation of being a ‘toy’ language. But that has changed:
Regardless of your original feelings towards the language, JavaScript has come a long way since the bad old days of 1995. [...]
Have you heard about twitter yet? It is the latest social networking site that lets you send out short messages to anyone who chooses to listen to you. It is a fabulous way of connecting with people, getting news and keeping in touch. Dave Kawalec wrote a blog entry about the power of twitter, to [...]
When you building a web page, it makes sense to think about how the search engines will show it in their listings. A well crafted listing can make a big difference in how many clicks your listing gets. For example, if you were presented with these listings, would you automatically pick the first listing or [...]
If you have a blog or use one of the many social networking sites, you can use Technorati to consolidate links to all of them in one place. When you create a profile in Technorati, it will track all of the services blog-like services linked to it. For example, I’ve linked my Technorati Profile to [...]