Windows Script Decoder.

  • 17 Jul 2004

Windows Script Encoder from Redmond is distributed as an IP-protection tool. Yet, even on the MS site, it is clearly noted that the tool can only obfuscate a script from a “casual viewer”, not from a hacker. I would wonder - why create a tool like that, at all, then? But the Redmond-based company has...

Obscure but useful

  • 09 Jul 2004

I, personally, liked the PDF manipulation project: \ http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=27192

Permission to Fly.

  • 07 Jul 2004

  “Aircraft in position. Requesting permission to fly” from the radio transmission of a flight captain with an air traffic controller.   Software projects are like the airplane flights. What users see is just the end-result of the work done by a group of professionals. Users may have a clue but do not really care...

Protection from Mailinator.

  • 21 Jun 2004

I have been a big fan of Mailinator. Not only it helped me with the annoying sites that beg for registration and then bomb with spam but it was invaluable in the debugging of our system when I needed new email accounts to test functionality on production. \r \r From the news on their site...

XML Button with CSS

  • 06 Jun 2004

If you want to style a button link to look like XML icon, you can use the following stylesheet <-- from style.css --> a.button:link { font-weight: bold; color: white; font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana; background-color: #FF6600; border-left: 1px solid #FF9A57; border-top: 1px solid #FFC8A4; border-right: 1px solid #7D3302; border-bottom: 1px solid #3F1A01; padding: 2px 5px 1px...