Archive for February, 2006


Keep your paws off of my mail()!

Here I have a prime example of a situation in which, although my application may function just fine on its own, for security reasons, it needs some extra support. /* Note: this example taken directly from securephp.damonkohler.com * in Feb, 2006 (AKA – the SecurePHP Wiki) * Update: Nov, 2007 – the URL has changed [...]

Quick-start rules of thumb: the Steps of Development

(developing the idea here) Need is determined Functions Researched Application Development Process Begins More Research More Development (repeat #4 and #5 as necessary) Test “First Working Version” of an App now, the critical steps that follow are those which i must begin to focus on with more concern so as to develop a better method, [...]

W3C Specification: CSS 2.1 | Anonymous inline boxes

In a document with HTML markup like this: <p>Some <em>emphasized</em> text</p> The <p> generates a block box, with several inline boxes inside it. The box for “emphasized” is an inline box generated by an inline element (<em>), but the other boxes (“Some” and “text”) are inline boxes generated by a block-level element (<p>). The latter [...]

W3C Specification: CSS 2.1 | Inline-level elements and inline boxes

Inline-level elements are those elements of the source document that do not form new blocks of content; the content is distributed in lines (e.g., emphasized pieces of text within a paragraph, inline images, etc.). Several values of the ‘display’ property make an element inline: ‘inline’, ‘inline-table’, and ‘run-in’ (part of the time; see run-in boxes). [...]

Display legible e-mail address while remaining secure from SPAM!

Commonly known as “spam bots” or “e-mail harvesters”, a technology used by those people who wish to scan your source-code for any unsuspecting owner’s e-mail address, their harvesting method can be avoided ef we don’t actually type the address into the code in the form it would take if we were typing it into the [...]