Category Archives: Misc
- June 13, 2008
- WebDU over for another year :(
Unfortunately WebDU has been and gone, all the good things go by so quickly It was a fantastic event yet again and a HUGE thank you to Geoff, Julie, Vanessa and all the Daemonites for putting on a spectacular couple of days. I don’t know what the highlight was, the great speakers/topics or the night [...]
- June 11, 2008
- WebDU starts tomorrow!!!
Looking forward to another WebDU starting tomorrow in beautiful Sydney. Geoff, Julie and the rest of the Daemon gang have brought us yet another stella cast of speakers. Judging from the agenda I’m going to have trouble knowing which session to attend, but that’s always a good thing. Also can’t wait for the first evening [...]
- June 9, 2008
- Looking for the source code of open source software? Use koders
I came across a cool search engine the other day called Koders which is “a free on-line search engine for open source software and other web-downloadable code.” The cool thing about this is you can search for just about any and every language you can think of, and quickly browse the source code of open [...]
- May 30, 2008
- Password strength checker
We all know passwords are the bane of any internet users online experience. So many sites, each with their own authentication requirements. I came across this handy site called passwordmeter to help test the strength of your passwords. It’s cool because it gives you an instant visual response for your passwords based upon things like; [...]
- April 16, 2008
- I hate spam: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA
Apparently the CAPTCHA for Windows Live Mail can be cracked in as little as 60 seconds and Gmail’s CAPTCHA has also been cracked. Does this mean the beginning of the end for CAPTCHA? There are some other interesting solutions to spambots out there, it’ll be interesting to see the future landscape of this infestation and [...]