Monthly Archives: August 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on Windows XP

Posted on 8/31/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

This week I decided to be daring and install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on my Windows XP computer at home. I especially like the Developer Tools which are similar to Firebug and Firefox’s Web Developer toolbar. The ruler is … Continue reading →

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PHP Encryption And CakePHP On The iBook

Posted on 8/22/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I continued my intensive work on PHP web development. I spent about 3 hours studying PHP’s many methods of encrypting data. There are a variety of encryption algorithms that you can use including MD5, SHA-1, DES etc so it … Continue reading →

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PHP Web Applications

Posted on 8/20/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I figured out how to add a custom property to one of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit’s controls, the Calendar control. I added  a property so I could set its initial mode to years. You can read all about … Continue reading →

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The Improved YouTube Tag Cloud

Posted on 8/2/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I have made an improvement to my YouTube Tag Cloud page. While browsing some web design sites I came across a blog post about Beautiful Word Clouds which showed some images of fancy word clouds. They used a fancy font … Continue reading →

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