Worth checking-out: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haefel-oracle-ruby.html Article/tutorial works better on Windows machine. What else is VMware for? 😉
Category: Web
Tips, tricks and explanations for web tools, standards and emerging technologies.
Javascript Toolkit – The X Library
A large library of Javascripts (a Toolkit). The X Library is worth demoing. The X Library
Google Analytics
Get rid of the cheesy website-counter, stop relying on a 90’s free statistical web-apps and sign-up for Google Analytics. It’s FREE, easy to set-up and extremely useful. Google Analytics
Listing your business with Yellow Pages will help show your business online!
Location, location, location! Most important part of business. Google maps and other locational business finding online tools are becoming the norm when searching for stores or services near ones current location. A lot of those online mapping systems rely on other databases with business listings. For example, Google maps relays on Yellow Pages. So having… Continue reading Listing your business with Yellow Pages will help show your business online!
Increasing MySQL data limit past 4GB
By default MySQL has a data limit of 4.2GB for a MyISAM table. To increase the size use the following SQL statment: alter table `table_name` max_rows = 200000000000 avg_row_length = 50; *Notice the orange text indicating where you would enter the table of which the increase is required for. Now simply type the following SQL… Continue reading Increasing MySQL data limit past 4GB
Flash Decompilers, turn a swf to fla for Mac OS X
Flash Gordon – The best by far. Flare – Free, just extracts the actionscript from the swf. SWF to FLA Converter – Not that great at extracting Actionscript, but good for extracting elements.
MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’
Microsoft decided to release a critical update several months back that modified Internet Explorer so users cannot directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. Users can interact with such controls after activating their user interfaces. Basically, IE blocked flash from running right-away. A dot-border box with the phrase… Continue reading MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’
Top-level domain root servers
Root Server Domain’s Root Servers IP’s Location A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 198.41.0.4 – VeriSign, VA, USA B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.228.79.201 – Information Sciences Institue, CA, USA C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.33.4.12 – Performance Systems International Inc., DC, USA D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 128.8.10.90 – Optional Design Group, CA, USA E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.203.230.10 – NASA, AL, USA F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.5.5.241 – Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., CA, USA G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.112.36.4… Continue reading Top-level domain root servers
URL basics
The URL (universe resource locator) makes a request: http://user:password@www.thedomain.org:8080/folder/file.html?var=value#anchor http – protocol (http, https, ftp, usenet, etc…) user – user name for server (useful for viewing files via FTP in a browser window) password – password for server www – subdomain thedomain – domain org – top-level domain 8080 – port (default for http is… Continue reading URL basics
Is your site indexed on search-engines?
Google sometimes has problems indexing a site correctly. Or they may not be indexing your site at all. How do you know if your site is indexed? MarketLeap has a wicked tool to help show how many pages have been indexed by what search engines: MarketLeap.com index tool. If HotBot has 100 and Google has… Continue reading Is your site indexed on search-engines?