How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google
Wednesday 27, 2007

How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google

Password strength meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. One can argue how useful these meters really are, but non-the-less they are fairly cool for users. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Well it’s fairly straight forward.
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Tuesday 26, 2007

Free Stock Icons for Your Next Application

There are plenty of stock icons out there that one can buy, and for your purchase you will get a very large set of stock icons in many different sizes and formats. However, if you need to do icons on the cheap there are a good amount of free icon sets out there that you [...]

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Friday 22, 2007

How to Setup a Subversion Server on Linux

With my recent move over to Linux. over this last week I have been resetting up my file server and getting everything setup that way it was back when it ran that other operating system. On of the functionalities my file server has, is running a subversion server. There are many ways to setup subversion, [...]

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Wednesday 20, 2007

Implementing a Captcha with Ruby on Rails in 10 Minutes or Less

I needed to put together a captcha fifteen minutes before a demo the other day, so I scrambled a researched for five minutes and settled on Simple Captcha. It had the features I needed, and looked like it could be implemented fast. So how did I accomplish this, well simple:
Install ImageMagick:
You can get your hands [...]

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Monday 18, 2007

Firefox Plugin of the Day: Pearl Crescent Page Saver

Pearl Crescent Page Saver makes taking screenshots of websites a breeze, and is how I take all of my screenshots for blog articles. The Firefox extensions gives you the ability to take a screenshot of the entire page or a certain portion of it. The free version has the basic options to change the output [...]

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