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Archive for February, 2010

Security by Obscurity is Weak

You should be able to publicly announce how your system is secured without compromising the security of your system.

Discuss.

New Pricing Scheme and Competition on MakeSomeTime

Today on MakeSomeTime I released a totally new pricing scheme where you pay $1/invoice. I felt that the old pricing scheme just wasn’t working for the site and I decided to go with something that fits more with the “keep it simple” ethic of MakeSomeTime. And to celebrate I am giving away $100 worth of MakeSomeTime credit. So head on over and check out what’s happening on MakeSomeTime.

Uptime – Website Uptime Monitoring

The guys over at CodeCanyon have a competition on just now where you can win up $6000+ worth of stuff. So I thought I would have a pop and today my entry was approved. Uptime is a website uptime monitoring tool that can be used to monitor any number of sites or individual pages. If one of your sites goes down you can check it manually on the Uptime site or get alerted by email so you can check your “downed” site out.

So head on over and check out the demo. It only costs $5.

URL: http://codecanyon.net/item/uptime-website-uptime-monitoring/86651

A Pratical Guide to Using AJAX in Web Apps


I have been doing a lot of work recently on MakeSomeTime and my final year Uni project (which is a web app) and both use a substancial amount of AJAX to power them. So what I want to do here is build on a previous article and outline a practical solution to using AJAX in your web apps using, in this case, jQuery and PHP.

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