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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.

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. [...]

Using $_GET and $_POST together

I find myself writing PHP scripts to do backend Ajax work.  One of the problems I often come up against is that I need to be able to call the same script either using a query string and pulling the variables from $_GET or via a form and calling the variables from $_POST.  I usually [...]