Mozilla have set up Download Day 2008 where they want to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. All they want us to do is download Firefox 3 the day it comes out. If you go to the site you can pledge your download and they will email you a reminder to download it (the date is still to be set). So why not help out the guys at Mozilla and pledge your download today. To be fair, they do make the best piece of software out there.

I found this article today and was very intrigued. I would consider myself to be a competent php coder but some of the stuff in the article 50+ PHP Optimisation Tips is totally new to me. For instance “echo is faster than print” and “Use sprintf instead of variables contained in double quotes, it’s about 10x faster“.

Well worth a look if your serious about php. [via phpro]

Nick from Web Designer Wall has done it again. He’s just written a great tutorial on how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. There are some great effects in there and I will definitely be using them. Thanks again Nick.

Since I have been writing about AJAX recently I thought I would post some of the links I found today. The first is a great tutorial from NETTUTS on How To Load and Animate Content with jQuery. The second is a great website I found called AjaxDaddy which is basically a collection of pre-built AJAX applets for use on your website. Enjoy.

Download the latest verions of Firefox 3 from:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Type into the address bar about:robots. I thought it was quite funny. Enjoy.

Quite a simple thing to do with javascript is show and hide elements in the DOM. Again I will use the prototype javascript library in this tutorial because it makes accessing the DOM so much easier, but many other libraries will have the same basic functionality as prototype. We will then use AJAX to save the changes to the database.
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After being hacked yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to write a tutorial on how to make a secure login page in php.
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Last night my webserver was hacked. No real damage was done but all of my websites data was compromised and a lot of passwords needed changed. I even had to take GCMS down as it was a security flaw in the GCMS login page that lead to the hack.

It has taught my some very important lessons in website security and input sanitization. However being hacked is never a nice thing. I believe the culprit was iLLuz1on (sorry iLLuz1on). Hopefully I have learned my lesson and things like this won’t happen again.

I thought it was about time I started contributing properly to the community so I have decided to start writing some proper tutorials. In this tutorial I will be using the prototype javascript library to create a simple AJAX form. Prototype is by no means the only way to create a form like this and there are many javascript libraries out there that will do the same thing, such as JQuery.
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Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.

Google Doctype is 100% open. Open source, open content and open to contributions from anyone. Well worth a look.