Posts Tagged web
Super Useful Web Dev Tools
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox, PHP, Productivity, Programs, javascript on March 17th, 2010
OMG, it’s been a whole month since my last update.
I have draft posts about all kinds of Good Stuff™, but none are quite publishable yet. So today I’m just going to point you at a few great resources I use all the time while doing my web development magic:
Break out of infinite alert() popups!
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox, javascript on February 17th, 2010
How many times have you been developing in javascript and said “I’ll just pop it in an alert”, alt-tab, refresh and then the sudden sinking feeling as you realise that you’re about to get 300 alert popups?
Damn! Now you have to sit there and press OK a bajillion times, or restart the browser – which is a pain because you’ll lose all your tabs, and more importantly you’ll lose your concentration while you load everything up again.
We’ve all been there. But recently I found a neat little trick to break out of infinite javascript alert loops in firefox:
Top 2009 Facebook Status Trends
Posted by Howard Yeend in web on December 22nd, 2009
As google release their annual zeitgeist, and many other sites prepare interesting stats on web usage, facebook have today done the same and released an fascinating insight into the top facebook status update topics of 2009:
Wordpress Security Flaw – Admin Password Reset
Posted by Howard Yeend in Wordpress, hacking on August 11th, 2009
It is possible to reset the admin password in all versions of wordpress up to and including the most recent version 2.8.3.
This information comes from a milw0rm exploit.
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GIFexplode – community powered web development
Posted by Howard Yeend in PHP, web on August 2nd, 2009
Let me share with you a very cool story about strangers coming together and building something.
I was browsing reddit yesterday, and I saw a thread entitled “Someone needs to make a Firefox add-on that lets you step through animated gifs frame by frame“. I thought “hey that’s a nice well defined simple idea” – just the kind of thing I love, so I registered a nice-sounding domain name and started looking at how to use PHP to split an animated gif into its component frames – I figured it couldn’t be too hard. Read the rest of this entry »
Adaptive Web Sites
Posted by Howard Yeend in Adaptive Web Sites, web on June 14th, 2009
(this is a slightly expanded transcript of a talk I gave at Oxford in June 2009 about my work there)
Hi! I’m Howard Yeend, my supervisor is Vasile Palade, and the title of my project is:
“Implementing Adaptive Web Sites using Machine Learning and Ajax“.
But before I talk about what all those buzzwords mean, I’d like to give a little background information about why this is an important research area, and why I feel it’s the right project for me.
When I was trying to think of a project title, I had a question in mind:
How can we improve the web?
And I think that’s a hugely important question for us to ask.
Backup your files in the cloud with Dropbox
Posted by Howard Yeend in Productivity, Programs, web on May 29th, 2009
How does 2 gig of free online storage sound? Well you can with this really sweet application! I’ve been using it for 6 months and it’s just great to be able to “set it and forget”; once a file is in my dropbox I know I can blow up my PC and still have full backups. That’s a good feelin’ :0)
Firefox Extensions
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox on March 13th, 2009
Firefox has been a massively innovative browser; bringing tabbed browsing and plugins to the masses. Here I list what I consider to be essential firefox plugins (aka extensions). This list is quite old now and some of these have been incorporated into firefox. I’ll be writing an updated list soon, in the meantime, let me know in the comments what extensions/plugins/tweaks and hacks you love!
Firefox/IE Bookmarklets / Favelets
Posted by Howard Yeend in Firefox on March 13th, 2009
A few javascript bookmarklets I’ve written which will enhance your browser; eg enable right click, edit cookie, hide/show images etc. Neat little browser hacks / tweaks!
They work with both firefox and MSIE. Read the rest of this entry »
Free PHP Scripts / Web Projects
Posted by Howard Yeend in CAPTCHA, Firefox, Other Code, PHP, Programs on January 13th, 2005
Various PHP projects of mine, with free GPL source code.
Mostly, these are small PHP/mySQL applications that provide an equally small piece of functionality. Source code is available under the GPL in most cases. Read the rest of this entry »