Lately, discussions seem to rage about whether to lay out your web pages using tables or divs. One side of the coin suggests all HTML related to laying out a page should use CSS, and thus the use of divs and spans to achieve this. It’s reported to be faster to render divs […]
At home, I run Windows XP x64, and I’ve had a tough time finding an antivirus program that will work on this operating system. I waited a year for McAfee or Symantec to come out with a version for this OS, but as of yet, neither of them had one that I could […]
For web developers interested in making sure their HTML is valid, an excellent tool is the Html Validator. This is a FireFox extension available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
It adds a little icon to the bottom right of your status bar that indicates whether or not a page is using valid html markup. If it finds […]
Over the past week, there have been 10 separate attempts to do a brute force attack on my server. Each day, I’d check my logs and manually ban the IP address responsible for the attempted crack. They’ve been attempting to break in through SSH and FTP.
While they didn’t succeed in breaking in, they did […]