Posts in the category “technology”
JavaScript Trick
Want to spice up your web site with some easy JavaScript tricks? I’m going to show you how to make your buttons, text boxes, and textareas change their colors. All you need are four attributes and some additional functions in your javascript file. (If you want to learn about adding a javascript file to your
htaccess Files
The Scriptygoddess wrote a terrific little tutorial on protecting your bandwidth from image-link theft by modifying your .htaccess files.
Tag&Rename
Beer-Opening Robot
Just when you thought beer-drinking couldn’t get any better, along comes the Autonomous Beer-Opening Robot, or ABOR. It was built by Jean-Phillipe Clerc, a mechanical engineering master’s student at the University of Florida, as part of the school’s Intelligent Machine Design Laboratory class. link via Visual Distortion
Wrist PDA
Before the Apple Watch
Oqo
A little tiny computer running Windows XP
XMLHTTP
I found a nifty tutorial on Using Microsoft’s XMLHTTP Object to Get Data From Other Web Pages at 4GuysFromRolla.com that might interest some readers. And over at ASP101.com there is a lesson on creating a shopping cart in ASP for your small business web site.
Quick Search
Wow! I am going to have to check out Dave’s Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar. It looks ultra-groovy. link via BrainLog
OOP Myths
Ironically, [Object-Oriented Programming] is sometimes billed as “better fitting the way people think”. Years of meditation and study to learn how to “think naturally”? I am thinking of setting up a $60-per-hour consultancy to teach sports fans to drink beer and belch in order to “optimize their recreational satisfaction”. link via webword