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Thursday, February 26, 2004

This DB is fantastic!

Deutsche Bahn's timetable service has a fantastic option that allows you to create a personal timetable in .PDB format so that it can easily be read on a Palm device.
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Thursday, February 12, 2004

What a load of c2p!

From ColdFusion Journal:

Welcome to another installment of Extending ColdFusion. In this edition, we are going to look at one of the ways you can add localization to your Web site. What do we mean by localization? Localization or L10N (L10N is an abbreviation for the 10 letters between the "L" and "N" in localization) describes the process of adapting an application to a specific locale.

You can think of L10N as the process of applying a locale or language "skin" to an application. That can mean many things like date, currency, and number formatting; calendars; text direction, and so on. Typically localization is done after a process called internationalization. Internationalization or I18N (I18N is an abbreviation for the 18 letters between the "I" and "N" in internationalization) is the design and development of an application so that it functions in at least two locales. You can think of I18N as making an application language or locale neutral.

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Tuesday, February 03, 2004

If you want safe surfing learn javascript

So say Miscrosoft. This is from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 833786. Really.

Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks

To try to identify the URL of the current Web site, use the following methods.

Use Jscript commands to try to identify the actual URL for the current Web site

Use a JScript command in Internet Explorer. In the Address bar, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

javascript:alert("Actual URL address: " + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/");

To properly close the loop hole where a link incorrectly displays the address of another site in the address bar, Microsoft has removed support for username and passwords in the URL.
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