Saturday, March 23, 2002

Joel's "programmers bookshelf" listing the books that he thinks every software developer should read - 19 must-read books (plus 2 books if you want to become a programmer). Visit the new Book Reviews page. [Joel on Software] 7:57:21 PM     Comments

Gaming and Signs of the Times IMHO these anti-virtues (Relentless, uncontrolled, feirce and lovers of vain amusements)are behaviours that are very closely associated with violent computer gaming. You have to admit games like q3a, hl, CS and DoD are nothing more than vain amusements." [JesusGeeks: Articles] 7:21:24 PM     Comments

PayPal Takes Aim at Developers. Hoping to make its eCommerce solutions more developer-friendly, PayPal teams with Macromedia and launches a developer portal. [internetnews: Web Developer] 6:48:37 PM     Comments

Social Hacking Hits IM. Public instant-messaging networks and Internet Relay Chat users are being urged not to run software offered to them via the popular communications channels. The programs could help run a denial-of-service attack [internetnews: Web Developer] 6:47:48 PM     Comments

Wouldn't it be cool to become a creature developer entirely from within Radio? 6:06:10 PM     Comments

ZDNN: Images may replace your lousy passwords. The key--images, which tend to make more of an impression on people than strings of text characters. Darko Kirovski, a cryptography and anti-piracy researcher at Microsoft, demonstrated a prototype password system at Microsoft offices in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:15:04 PM     Comments

Jesus is with you always. 2:54:02 PM     Comments

Displaying An Hourglass Cursor While Waiting (3/23/2002). I have the hardest time getting my users to wait until my page downloads. Every gimmic I try doesn't work. Do you know how to ask the user to wait patiently until a task is done? Supposedly this tip shows you how to convert the mouse shape to an hourglass, and then back to normal. [JavaScript Tip of the Day] 2:52:01 PM     Comments

Your voice, O God, thunders in marvelous ways; You do great things that we cannot comprehend. (Job 37:5) 5:08:13 AM     Comments