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Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it.
The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount of [...]

Java code practice on JavaBat

Looking for a place to polish up your Java skills?  Try JavaBat.  It’s a library of short Java projects that you fill in the code and it’ll check if for you.

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Dice Sprites in GIF format

After spending about 20 minutes trying to find a good set of graphics for a dice rolling script I was working on I decided it was faster to just create my own. 5 minutes in Photoshop and I was done. There are individual files for each of the 6 die faces, an animated [...]

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Phishing with CareerBuilder.com

Just a warning for those that may not be well versed in how to tell if an email is a phishing attempt. I’ve noticed over the past day or so that there have been a lot of emails coming in that appear to be coming from CareerBuilder.com asking me to update my account information. [...]