Connecting the dots…

Thoughts on Web Development, Scalability and Application Architecture

Month: February, 2008

Gmail Signup Form.

Saw this today while signing up for an account for Orkut. That’s a rather strange way of checking password complexity. Google probably goes the extra mile to rate password at server side instead of client side. Also the audio captcha was really horrible, it sounded more like two voices at the same time.

Writing an IRC Bot

I had always been intrigued about IRC Bots and always thought it was quite cool to be able to write one, esp when i would see loads of script kiddies downloading stuff and setting it up on free shell accounts. recently at work it was suddenly a season for writing bots, it seemed like everyone [...]

yui – custom event

Note to self on how to setup custom even. Step 1: Define a custom event var onCustomEvent1 = new YAHOO.util.CustomEvent(‘onCustomEvent’); Step 2: Make methods subscribe to the event onCustomEvent1.subscribe(method1); onCustomEvent1.subscribe(method2); etc.You can also pass arguments to the subscribe method, which can be accessed by the subscribed method, as explained below. Step 3: Whenever that event [...]

Though i am not a believer of non standard stuff, but recently was asked this question on IRC on how to launch applications via a hyperlink, it was probably alright to do that in the users case, since this was for an Intranet and everyone had that software installed and were running windows.  The call:// [...]

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