HowSecureIsMyPassword.net is a site for checking the strength of passwords in a simple and fun way. The strength is not shown in the conventional progress bar, but in very descriptive sentences. Read more…
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CodeHave Version 2.0 Released
We are happy to announce that CodeHave version 2.0 is finally released. In this version we had some minor bugs fixed and added a few features like social bookmarking submission, a contact form and an admin panel to modify the website’s title, meta tags and menus. A list of the features can be found in the Tour page.
Please try the Demo and let us know what you think.
Quotations from Fortune the UNIX Program
fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudo-random message from a database of quotations. It is predominantly found in UNIX-like systems, but clients for other platforms exist as well. Quotations are from famous people, jokes, poetry, science fiction movies and a few other sources. Below are a few of them: Read more…
Creating a New Page Template for a WordPress Theme
Page templates in a WordPress theme define how the page using it is displayed. Nowadays most themes provide more than one page template. As an example the Twenty Ten theme that comes with WordPress 3.0 has Page Template and One Column, no Sidebar Page Template. They are listed in the Page Attributes box in the Template drop-down list when you create or edit a page. Read more…
Displaying an Image Without Locking its File
The PictureBox control is one of the most used controls in Windows Forms applications. And sometimes you might want to delete the image file that is displayed on it. Doing so with an image displayed using the Image.FromFile function will result in a file locked exception. And file will stay locked until the program exits, even if you set the variable to null. Read more…
Opening a File With its Default Program
When developing a Windows Forms application you sometimes need to open a file using the default program associated with it automatically for the user view or edit it. This could be done by just calling the System.Diagnostics.Process.Start function and passing the file name and path as a string. It works with any file type as long as a default program is assigned to the file extension. Read more…
Creating Your Own URL Shortening Service With YOURLS
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YOURLS (stands for Your Own URL Shortener) is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to create your own URL shortening service. Like most scripts its requirements Apache with Mod_Rewrite, PHP and MySQL which makes it easy to install in virtually any hosting account.
