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The New Web2Generators: Improved Tools and a New Home for WebAndSay
Meet the new Web2Generators: six free browser tools, a refreshed interface, practical guides, and the English WebAndSay archive together on one website.
Htpasswd Generator Update: bcrypt, Adjustable Cost and Apache MD5
Create Apache password entries with bcrypt and adjustable cost, or APR1 for legacy compatibility. Learn which format to choose and how to use the updated tool.
Lorem Ipsum Generator Update: HTML Markup, Lists and Flexible Openings
Generate Lorem Ipsum as plain text or HTML, create ordered and unordered lists, and choose your opening phrase. Try the improved free generator.
cURL Command Guide: Basic and Advanced Options with Examples
Learn cURL commands for GET, POST, JSON, headers, uploads and retries. Avoid quoting mistakes and build requests with our free online cURL command builder.
How to Check Website Network Requests in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari
Learn how to inspect website network requests in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, see what data is sent, and check whether an online tool runs locally.
The answer as to why Firefox's release cycle is shortened: Mozilla love cakes
Firefox 4 has finally been released after an amazing number of Beta versions and 2 Release Candidates. It's about time! And while everyone has its idea on…
Introducing web2generators.com for your web development needs
We are glad to announce the release of Web And Say's sister web-site named Web 2.0 Generators. Web 2.0 generators' aim is to provide free tools, helpers and…
Windows 3.11 for the Web 2.0
A few web based operating systems have emerged the last few years including Jolicloud and EyeOS with many more to come such as Google's own Chrome OS but…
Microsoft is not ready to let Silverlight loose against Canvas
Microsoft is honest in the recent blog post about using one platform to build another by saying that "some people have gone as far as to suggest HTML 5…
Google is actively pushing Chrome by providing a download link from the home page
Up until now, the Google home page was meant to be as lite as possible. It only contained one image with the Google logo, some links to other Google tools,…
Monster: Javascript 3D Engine
Chrome Experiments is "Not your mother's JavaScript" as it was "created to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers". And Dean McNamee…
Useful JavaScript Tools
Starting a blog post with a number seems to be today's obligation and after posting 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques, 80+ AJAX-Solutions For…
Google: This site may harm your computer
If you were using Google this past Saturday between 6:27 a.m. and 7:25 a.m. PST, chances are that you have been warned by the search engine that your search…
The Shortest Way to Detect Internet Explorer in Javascript
Through Ajaxian, the following 12 characters code seems to be the shortest way to detect any version of Internet Explorer, including IE 8. This is the…
Online Demoscene with the 25-Line ActionScript Contest
What can you do in 25 lines of ActionScript ? How about participating to the The 25-Line ActionScript Contest! January finalists include amazing entries,…
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1
Even though Microsoft promised the final version of Internet Explorer 8 for last year, it is only today that the first release candidate of Internet…
Biggest 10 Browser-Based Game Sites Ranked
Gamasutra is running and interesting story about the biggest browser-based game sites where we can learn some pretty amazing numbers measured by ComScore…
Google cuts out print ads
After shutting down six of its projects and letting go some of its employees, Google is now Turning the page on Print Ads. "In the last few months, we've…
TV and Flash animated cartoons about to be replaced by Javascript animation ?
That's what I thought when I saw Anthony Calzadilla's article "Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery" article through WebAppers. Just check the…
Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
A little more than a year after its first release, Microsoft today announces the immediate availability of the second version of its Silverlight plugin.…
Congratulation WebKit for being the first to pass the Acid3 Test
Not happy to have the fastest JavaScript engine of any web browser thanks to SquirrelFish Extreme, Safari just hit the 100/100 bar of the Acid3 test. "Acid3…
The (very funny) history of the browser user-agent string
If you haven't read it yet, here is the very funny history of browser user-agent string as narrated by Aaron Andersen of WebAIM. "In the beginning there was…
Google Chrome browser: a step further to the Google Operating System ?
Google just cleverly announced the imminent release of their first web browser named Google Chrome through a very well done comic book presenting its…
Sensational story or threatening Vista security hole ?
In what seems to be a sensational / tabloid article inspirationally named Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit, Neowin reports that…
Design Showcase Of Creative Online-Shops
So you are building an online shop, and you'd like your visitors to find the ordering process as enjoyable as possible. Smashing Magazine is helping you…
The survery for people who make websites
As they did last year, the popular A List Apart publishes a survey for people who make websites. "Calling all designers, developers, information architects,…
Rails-like ActiveRecord in Aptana Jaxer to come
We can read some interesting things about the future of Aptana Jaxer in a blog post from Paul Colton (CEO of Aptana) announcing the hiring of Ajax gurus…
Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year
According to ZDNet, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows (what a mouthful), Bill Veghte, just told attendees of the Microsoft's…
Best CSS based Navigation Menus and Techniques
Back on the 2nd of July, Social CMS Buzz posted a list of 20 Of The Best CSS Navigation Menu Techniques, which contained an extensive list of CSS Menus.…
Please wait till I finish my Favicon game
The web is an immense source of information. You can learn, read, listen or watch just about anything. But let's not forget what we, humans, tend to do on…
Integrate your PHP application with Google Calendar
Vikram Vaswani writes a very nice article on how to use PHP to process and integrate data from Google Calendar into a custom application. "This article will…
Google Code Jam 08 starts in a Week with $80,000 Prizes !
7 Days and 11 Hours is all that remains before the start of Google Code Jam 2008. Code Jam is a competition with a fair amount of money: $10,000 for the…
Rails-Doc.org - A First Look
Fabio Cevasco is taking us on a tour of Rails-Doc.org which focuses on providing a better interface to Rails documentation by offering two key features : a…
Add some DHTML to your OpenLaszlo exports
Ajaxian, Antun Karlovac and Raju Bitter report that the 4.1 version of OpenLaszlo has finally been released and can now generate DHTML in addition to the…
55 Free high quality Icon Sets
Nine illustrated highlights from a 2008 roundup of free icon sets for desktops, blogs, and web projects.
Top 10 apps worth installing Adobe AIR for
A selection of Adobe AIR applications for auctions, Twitter, time tracking, and Google Analytics, from a 2008 roundup.
JSON Diff Released
A look at JSON Diff, a visual JSON comparison tool with highlighted changes and a collapsible data viewer.
Adobe teams up with Google and Yahoo to index more flash content for search
A 2008 report on Adobe working with Google and Yahoo to make Flash content more accessible to search engines.
JavaScript language advanced tips and tricks
Five JavaScript examples from the jslibs wiki, covering objects, arguments, singletons, defaults, and arrays.
75 Insane High Res Photoshop Brushes
A collection of high-resolution Photoshop brushes, with twelve previews from the original roundup.
How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time
A 2008 cross-browser compatibility checklist from Anthony Short, discovered through WebAppers.
Give little names to your pet SQL queries with Rails 2.1
A look at named_scope in Rails 2.1 and how named queries improve readability and maintainability.
Code documentation is all there is to happiness
Why documenting web code pays off, with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS comment examples.
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