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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Tips to migrate from HTML to xHTML

5 simple steps to migrate from HTML to XHTML .

Open with the proper DOCTYPE & Namespace
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd “>
Write all tags in lowercase
<title>XHTML Rules</title>
Quote all attribute values
src=”xyz.png” and not src=xyz.png
Close all tags
<p>Some Text</p>
Close “empty” tags, too
<img src=”xyz.png” />

Microsoft preps Yahoo! proxy attack

According to The New York Times‘ DealBook blog, Microsoft will soon spark a Yahoo! proxy fight rather than up its $44.6bn bid for the beleaguered Web portal.
document.write(\\’\x3Cscript src=”http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/reg.channel.4159/marketnews;\\’+RegExCats+GetVCs()+\\’pid=\\’+RegId+\\’;\\’+RegKW+\\’maid=\\’+maid+\\’;test=\\’+test+\\’;pf=\\’+RegPF+\\’;dcove=d;sz=336×280;tile=3;ord=\\’ + rand + \\’?” type=”text/javascript”>\x3C\/script>\\’);
An increased bid would cost the company billions more, but sources tell DealBook that Microsoft could launch a […]

Indian IT Industry losses Rs 1.6 lakh per staff on net surfing

NEW DELHI: India Inc may soon have to check internet usage during working hours, with an average five hours a week spent on personal web surfing, causing companies an annual loss of about Rs 1.6 lakh per employee.
These are the findings of a survey of IT managers in 450 organisations across five cities […]

Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats

Three-step guide
Fundamentally, there’s nothing terribly new about the problems posed by Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) when it comes to security, we just need to apply some good old security principles to this new technology.
The problems occur because, unfortunately, there are an awful lot of devils hidden inside the details.
document.write(\\’\x3Cscript […]

Former contractor sues Google for $25m

A former Google contract worker is claiming $25m damages from the search monolith for allegedly stealing his idea for Google Sky - the heavenly Google Earth feature that allows users to navigate the universe.
In the lawsuit filed last Wednesday in Atlanta’s Northern District Court of Georgia, plaintiff Jonathan Cobb claims that in 2006, when working […]

Gmail vs Windows Live Mail vs Yahoo Mail betas

As Researched by www.theinquirer.net :
WE HAVE BEEN trialling the various beta programmes from the main online mail-behemoths since their respective inceptions. In fact, we have been unfortunate enough to have to use each one daily and today we’re going to take a quick look at each service, comparing and contrasting each product’s offerings.Yahoo! Mail beta
The […]

Java and PHP moves towards interoperability!

SugarCRM, one of the open source community’s darlings, is taking steps towards improve interoperability between its PHP architecture and Java.
The next version of SugarCRM’s customer relationship management (CRM) suite, version 6.0 due in the fourth quarter of 2008 or first quarter of 2009, will feature a “Java layer” to enable PHP to talk to Java […]

Murphy’s laws :: Best ones : )

Murphy’s computers laws

Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.

The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.

A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.

Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.

When you finally […]

Tattoo your name online !

Instructions:

Enter your First Name
Enter your Last Name
Email (Optional)
Press Visualizer

Show Tattoo […]

Is Rapidshare shutting down ?

The popular file-sharing service may be forced to shut down if it can not control the uploading of pirated music to its service after a German court ruling.
The German equivalent of the RIAA, GEMA, won a legal battle in district court in Düsseldorf last week which found that Rapidshare should be held responsible for the […]