Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

one of the very earliest of spring flowers, its cheery, ... lighting up our hedges even before winter is quite spent

Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable. --Dwight
Eisenhower

How does StumbleUpon figure out what topic a website is ... automatically categorizes pages into over 500 different ... the words present on the pages. This system is approxima... effective, when it is not we rely on stumblers to correc... made by the

This tutorial is aimed at users and programmers who have
begun to work with tools that use regular expression ...
who are not quite comfortable with the intricacies o ...
Even users who may have used regular expressions in ...
... as

The illusions selected for this collection generally sha...
properties. First, they illustrate phenomena that h ...
implications for the study and practice of Computer ...
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Second, they have ...
...

Welcome to Illusionworks.com
Great optical illusion sites:
%u2022 Al Seckel - Homepage of illusions, perception and ...
%u2022 Eyetricks.com - Tons of optical illusion gallerie ...

See
how your eyes are unreliable.

What you hear is NOT what you receive.

Alexa Web Search Platform - Beta
NEWS: Released December 13, 2005 - The Alexa Web Search ...
The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to ...

Alexa Web Information Service
Alexa's vast database of information about the Web is av ...
The Alexa Web Information Service offers a platform for ...

Ultrawideband (UWB) technology offers great opportunitie... wireless multimedia networking. The WiMedia Alliance is ... open industry association that promotes and enables the ... regulation, standardization and multi-vendor interoperab... wideband (U

The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies worki...
to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-powe ...
monitoring and control products based on an ...

This class can be used to edit and save a paragraph of t... page.
It associates the necessary Javascript event handling co ...
When the user finishes editing the generated Javascript ...

What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the ... web content accessible to more people and more kinds of ... Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models... Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on t... the not so

Usability News is a free web
newsletter that is produced by the
Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL).
The SURL team specializes in software/website us ...
... and research. 

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-... applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
From the Ajax in the view, to the request and resp ...
To go live, all you need to add is a database and ...

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generat ...
by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005
The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 m ...

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* title  : Enchancing dd/mm/yyyy forms with unobtrusive ...
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* story  : Two javascript functions to enchance interact ...
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If you site needs pop-ups to work properly, this little ...
var popWin = window.open("","ptest","width=1,height=1,le ...
if (popWin) {
  popWin.blur();
... }

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease de... dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-us... class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library aro... quickly becoming the codebase of choice for Web 2.0 deve...

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

Mozilla Developer Documentation
Documentation: Mozilla developer |
Web developer
| End user
... ides information about the mozilla documentation effort.

Mozilla provides a mechanism which can be used to packag... scripts,
skins and other files into single file installers. You c ...
file somewhere for users to download. A simple script ca ...
downloaded and installed. This mechanism is called XPIns ...

Chapter 34. HTTP authentication with PHP
The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only availab ...
running as an Apache module and is hence not availabl ...
In an Apache module PHP script, it is possible to use the
... header() function fo

Colour blindness is caused because one of the three type...
totally or partially absent. The most common for ...
blindness which means that red and green colours ...
are about 20 times lower for females as most for ...
...

Java Sketchbook: Getting Started with Java Web Start Jav... Getting Started with Java Web Start
by Joshua Marinacci
08/11/2005

The new report, Inclusion Through Innovation: Tackling S... Through New Technologies, explores the potential that In... Communication Technologies (ICT) have to improve service... quality of life for the most excluded groups, and argues... use of ICT

Statistics is the science and practice of developing hum... through the use of empirical data. It is based soundly o... theory which is a branch of applied mathematics. Within ... theory, randomness and uncertainty are modelled by proba... Statistical

ISI - International Statistical Institute
Free Statistical Tools on
the WEB

General FAQ #25: Handling missing or incomplete data
Question:
I have a database that contains records with incom ...
participants did not complete all of the availab ...
How should I handle this problem?