Saturday, November 11. 2006
CSS Resources
Free Development Tools
thefreecountry.com has a bunch of free development tools. It is quite extensive, covering programming, webmaster, and security resources.
favicon.ico
thesitewizard.com has a description of what to do with the favicon.ico and where to put it. It seems there is some sort of link problem with the link ref as it is not showing in my browser. More research is needed. Continue reading "favicon.ico" »
Apache Rewrite
After taking a look at Google's Webmaster Tools over a few days, I have come to the conclusion that Google doesn't crawl cgi-bin type things. So David Wheeler's rewrite page that I had come across a while back finally makes sense. The page url's need to be modifed to turn things into a seemingly standard directory structure. Continue reading "Apache Rewrite" »
Turing Test for Comment Submissions
People have designed various ways to prevent bots from successfully submitting web forms. Perhaps the most common method is by using CAPTCHAs: common ones being those funny images with characters hidden in a disconcerting background. CAPTCHA is an acronym for 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart'. Continue reading "Turing Test for Comment Submissions" »
Career Planning
In talking to a friend today, they were considering a career change. I remember way back when, I was doing career changing, ie, finding myself. I think there were two books that helped me the most. Both are by Richard Nelson Bolles: 'What Color is Your Parachute' and 'Three Boxes of Life'. The first one is re-written yearly. The second is a bit harder to come by. Both helped me figure out where I was, where I wanted to go, and helped plan how to get there. I recommend them both.
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