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Archive for May, 2006

Typography links

Here are a couple of useful typography links:

Typography for Headlines (the post | the examples)
25 Best Free Quality Fonts

I find it interesting that we went through a design trend a couple of years ago that utilized especially small fonts (pixel fonts), but today it's BIG typography that rules all those web 2.0-ish and Rails inspired […]

Introducing Spry: Adobe's AJAX framework

On May 10, Adobe announced the prerelease of Spry, their new AJAX framework. Spry is a product-independent, easy to use, and lightweight yet powerful model for adding data, interactivity, and rich UI widgets into your web pages. Learn more about Spry, view some examples of it in use and sample source code, or download it […]

Prosecuting white hat hackers

Should people who break into Web sites and then report the vulnerability to the site owners be prosecuted?
In June of 2005, Eric McCarty discovered a vulnerability on the University of Southern California's online application system. He reported this vulnerability to Security Focus intending for Security Focus to act as a neutral third party to […]

Firefox Google search plugin and locale redirection

Because the work that I produce is more often than not created primarily for a U.S. audience, I find it distinctly annoying that google.com redirects my searches via the Firefox Google search plugin to google.ca. While this redirection is intended to be helpful, it often slips my mind that the SERPs are being generated from […]

Favourite Firefox extensions

Web Development 

View Source Chart
HTML Validator
DOM Inspector
Screen Grab!
LoremIpsum Content Generator
WordCount 
ColorZilla 
Live HTTP Headers 
Web Developer
IE View

Browser Enhancements

Mass Installer 
Bookmark Backup 
Popup ALT Attribute 
Copy Plain Text
TinyUrl Creator
Mozilla Calendar 
Search Status 
Resize Search Box
Sort Bookmarks 
del.icio.us 

DreamHost dumps osCommerce, Miva for Zen Cart

According to the latest newsletter from DreamHost, the popular web host has dumped 1-click installs of osCommerce and Miva Merchant in favor of the popular open source shopping cart app, Zen Cart. DreamHost cited Zen Cart's security, MySQL 5 compatibility, user support and "open sourceness" as the reasons for the switch. I've used Zen Cart […]