Fathom this! In: Duly noted

File upload security concerns for PHP (PDF)

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:01:30 +0200

File upload security concerns for PHP (PDF).

Designing for touch

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:46:05 +0200

Designing for touch. Considerations for designing interfaces for the touchscreen devices.

How I Explained REST to My Wife

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:40:15 +0200

How I Explained REST to My Wife.

The Atlantic: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:37:26 +0200

The Atlantic: How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy. A fascinating if spooky look at how Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that reproduces in the gut of a cat, alters your brains and may be the cause of the rise schizophrenia.

The unknown science of itching

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:59 +0200

The Itch. A mesmerizing, horrific tale of an itch that wouldn’t stop.

Ever wonder where all those clip-art logos come from?

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:25:24 +0200

Experiences using a dirt cheap logo design service. Interesting experiment, and in the end, not entirely a bust. But you do get what you pay for.

11 ways to trim Javascript

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:50:36 +0200

Looking for trim in Javascript? Here’s plenty, with some very interesting performance analysis.

Good PHP CAPTCHA script

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:22:56 +0200

Securimage is a good-looking and accessible CAPTCHA built in PHP.

Moscow's Banksy

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:39:25 +0200

The Guardian: Moscow’s Banksy: the street art of P183. My favorites are the glasses and the “plate of spaghetti”, which cleverly reimagine real world objects as parts of other, gigantic objects.

The mystery of Kaspar Hauser

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:10:37 +0200

The mystery of Kaspar Hauser. An intriguing tale, found via a Quora thread on the most gripping tales of human history.

23 years of the Bold and the Beautiful summarized in 6 minutes.

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:41:15 +0200

23 years of the Bold and the Beautiful summarized in 6 minutes.

Hello, the montage

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:19:47 +0200

Hello. A very nice montage of movie clips recreating the song.

Mobile design trends of 2011

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:44:26 +0200

Mobile design trends of 2011. A good collection and breakdown of different layouts and styles used in mobile sites.

Traffic in Frenetic Ho Chi Minh City

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:36:07 +0200

Traffic in Frenetic Ho Chi Minh City. A very nice time lapse video.

Which HTML5 video player sucks the least?

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:17:12 +0200

HTML5 video player comparison. A very handy chart of what player supports what. While I appreciate native video support, I’d say JWPlayer is still the way to go. It’s mature and has a common Javascript API for both Flash and HTML5 players.

The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:38:08 +0200

The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London. Crazy stuff!

Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:18:35 +0200

Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant. By A List Apart.

FitVids.JS

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:07:07 +0200

FitVids.JS. A jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

How to add Google Analytics to mobile websites

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:08:23 +0200

How to add Google Analytics to mobile websites.

Twitter feed helpers

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:48:03 +0200

A few Twitter feed helpers: Seaofclouds jQuery plugin and a PHP Twitter Search API. Haven’t used either, just thought I’d note for later.

Overview of Google Search

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:42:22 +0200

A nice history of Google’s search in a six-minute video.

The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:26:48 +0200

The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art. I've seen some of these before, but it still boggles the mind that some of these are done in Illustrator.

Using P3P headers to solve cross-domain cookie issues in IE

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:53:42 +0200

Using P3P headers to solve cross-domain cookie issues in IE. This addresses issues such as cookies not being set in iframes or Google Analytics not registering correctly for Internet Explorer. Contrary to what some advice, just slapping a header in your index file isn’t enough, every static file also needs to have this header. A .htaccess may be of assistance in this task.

Quora: Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system?

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:00:04 +0200

Quora: Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system?

The man who forges to donate

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:24:56 +0200

The story of an odd con man who has been donating forged paintings to museums for 30 years. Via Kottke.