Published by Danny February 16th, 2008
in Code.
In the beginning, there was “mailto:” and it was good (or at least functional to a point). Then Matt Wright graced us with the Perl script we all know as Form Mail for collecting and validating the users input.
Initially FormMail was touted to be a feature-rich, fully-functional send-mail script that would (and did) revolutionize the way websites collected form information and transferred it to the website admins without the need to use the all-to-familiar “mailto:” command that requires a user to add the info in an email.
Continue reading ‘Practicing Good Form’
Published by Danny February 13th, 2008
in Featured.
Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting several new or enhanced security features, an improved download manager, one-click bookmarking, offline application support, faster page rendering and new progress on plugging the browser’s noted “memory leaks.” Continue reading ‘Mozilla delivers third beta for Firefox 3 browser.’
Published by Danny February 9th, 2008
in Featured.
According to sources, Yahoo is deciding between just two options. Accept the offer in 
principal, but get Microsoft to fork over some more coin, or attempt to partner with Google and outsource advertising to the Internet giant. Continue reading ‘Yahoo will decide on Microsofts offer this week.’
Published by Danny January 23rd, 2008
in Code.
Today the HTML working group published the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.
Some of the most interesting new features for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and controlling audio and video content, maintaining persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to edit documents and parts of documents interactively.’ An updated draft of HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 has also been published to help guide you through the changes.
Now all we need to do is wait until there is a browser that supports it! 
Published by Danny January 21st, 2008
in Code.
Microsoft has lifted its ban on enabling Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium in virtual machine environments.
The company announced on January 20 its decision to add the two new SKUs and planned to update its end-user license agreement to reflect the change.
(Microsoft was planning on making the announcement at 12:01 a.m. on January 21, but another publication broke the embargo, so the company is going out with the news early.) Continue reading ‘Microsoft relaxes Vista Virtualization Rules’
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