Programming & Coding

Mozilla Collusion Could Be A Godsend For Privacy Advocates – Is Google Adwords-Adsense In Jeopardy?

Mozilla unveiled a new privacy add-on called Collusion last Wednesday (February 29). Developed by Mozilla’s in-house programmers, and backed by the Ford Foundation, Collusion enables you to se a visual relationship map of all the advertisers and entities who are tracking your online activity, in real-time. Gary Kovacs, (CEO of Mozilla), had this to say […]

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Q & A: How To Make Div’s With Rounded Corners In CSS?

Question: How can I make boxes and div’s with rounded corners? Answer: CSS3 is the first version to have built-in rounded rectangle commands. The css property that addresses is this: border-radius It’s usage is: border-radius: 15px; Fairly simple and straight-forward; the higher the number the deeper the corner rounding. If you have an older browser

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Lynda.com PHP MySQL WAMP Project: Widget Corp – Progress Update – 2012.02.07

Hello folks.  I’ve been doing a Lynda.com tutorial called PHP With MySQL Essential Training.  I’ve actually been doing aboutg 2-8 hours per week of the multiple, sequential lessons that are involved in this excellent hands-on tutorial for about a month now. At this point, I have completed all the basic PHP and MySQL material, and

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Testing WordPress’s Code Syntax Highlighting

(12/04/11) TEST 1: This example introduces a bit of test code we are calling ‘CODE SNIPPET A’. It uses the ‘sourcecode’ tag and has no language attributes or parameters. Code Snippet A [sourcecode] <form id="form1"> <div> <input id="btnShowMessage" type="button" value="show message" /> <div id="divMessage" style="background-color: yellow;">THIS IS THE MESSAGE</div> </div> </form> [/sourcecode] NOTE: When you

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In Praise Of Jeff Duntemann … An Ode To Fun, Easy-To-Read Programming Books

02/19/11 Around 1998 I was working as an Electronics Engineer at a local slaughterhouse called IBP (now owned by Tyson Chicken) and it was there in the meager collection of reference books available that I discovered the book “Assembly Language Step-By-Step“, by Jeff Duntemann.  I was blown away.  Though it has been over 10 years

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Good Applications Installed on XP PC Right Now (10/08/09)

Date: 2009.10.08 A.F.S Rename AC3Filter Adobe Media Player AutoGK AviSynth 2.5 Batch File Renamer BatchPhoto COMODO DIVX 7.2 EASUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6 Free Internet Eraser Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Peer Guardian 2 IrfanView PTDD Partition Table Doctor 3.5 Qunitessential Media Player Real Alternative Sonic MyDVD Plus VideoLAN (VLC) Vistanita Duplicate Finder VobSub (part of codec

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Why I Won’t Install Most Facebook Games or Applications

[Thought I’d post this, as many in my family don’t realize the insidious nature of FACEBOOK GAMES:] Several people have asked me to join there “Mafia Wars” game play. I’ve signed up for mafia wars for people in the past without actually playing. The problem as I see it is that I would have to

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