Archive for December, 2009
Add “did you mean” function to website, mySQL
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
did you mean?
Say what?
Like Google you might want to offer “did you mean” functionality to your site visitors, not sure where to start? or just looking for a quick fix! then you’r in the right place…
To kick off with it’s worth noting that we are going to be using mySQL Stored procedures, along with the various mySQL built in functions, such as: SOUNDEX() et al.
Lets start by building some key parts of our database, begining with the “tbl_dictionary”, we are going to need a dictionary to compare our users input against, below I show you the table structure. (more…)
Tags: did you mean, google style, improve search, mySQL, usability
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Adobe Spry Tooltip Flicker FIX
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009We recently had an oportunity to use the Tooltip widget from the Adobe Spry Framework that ships with Dreamweaver CS4, it worked great until the toolip reached the boundaries of the browser window, at which point it would flicker like mad! Ugly, YES! (more…)
Tags: ad, adobe, adobe spry, bug, CS3, CS4, Dreamweaver, fix, flicker, spry
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Phishtank Get it Wrong
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
phish? no its a crock!
On Nov 18th 2009 at 3:08 PM our site was submitted to phistank.com by some anonymous urk called PhishReporter, he/she got it wrong! We have emailed them directly asking to be removed from their now somewhat dubious list. We have never received a response.
The story goes like this, we were testing some functionality for a client using the MS XML Object, the client had requested a degree of automation. Our developers had placed a file on the server to test the XML object was fetching urls correctly ( commonly known as debugging ). The url happened to be homepage of eBay, once loaded by the XML object, the response was written to the client. That’s it, the long and the short of it!
Let’s look at the definition of Phishing,
Wikipedia says:
“In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames “
Looking at that deffinition it’s quite clear that our site should not have been and should not be listed on that wesbite.
If anyone at Phishtank.com would like to comment or even respond to our email I welcome your communication.
That’s all folks 
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