ASP: Reading and Writing Cookies

Cookies are powerful things. Not only are they sweet and tasty, but they store useful information on your visitors’ computers as well! You can use them to check if a user has visited your site before, or store their login information, preferences, favorites, and other stats.

But how do you use them in ASP? This tutorial shows you just that.

JS: 10 (or so) Functions I Can’t Live Without

Below are ten JavaScript functions that, over the course of several years, I have found to be indispensable, awesome, and at times life-saving.

JS: WYSISYG Rich Text Box

Many sites are starting to add rich text boxes, which are text fields that let you create text and alter formatting in a WYSIWYG environment: “What You See Is What You Get”. This basically means a text box that is like a word processor; if you select text and click on the “Bold” button (such as a bold letter B), the text will actually show up in bold.

If such a concept has eluded you, look no further for a detailed tutorial on how to create one.

PHP: 10 Security Mistakes & Oversights

In my years as a web developer, there are many security issues with which I have had to become familiar. There are a lot of people out their with malicious intent. One of them could come across your site and expose a flaw that allows them access to crucial information, or the entire site itself. Don’t let this happen! Below are the 10 most common errors programmers make that could prove fatal.

AJAX: A Primer

First off, what is AJAX? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. What does that mean? Basically, it means that you can call up other scripts and retrieve dynamically generated content (or perform simple actions) without ever leaving the current page. It’s how a large number of sites let you log in nowadays, and on what Yahoo! Mail Beta is based. It became popular through Google Suggest, where AJAX is the framework behind that little list that pops up below the search bar while you type in your query.

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The purpose of this blog is to share code snippets, functions, programming methods, design ideas, and other innovations with the world. We’ll be posting informational and extremely useful pieces of code. Just wait until we show you what we have in store for you!