Google has quietly launched a new website today, What Do You Love – or WDYL.com for short. The concept is rather simple, you answer the question of “What Do You Love?” and the new portal will quickly show you images of your search, patents, trend statistics, books, videos, translations, blog posts, news, and events. Really […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
SQL Injections – A Powerpoint Presentation
If you haven’t noticed more and more web-related services have been getting hacked lately – and these aren’t small websites either. Infragard – an FBI affiliate, the CIA website and the FBI’s Detroit phone network, the threats and attacks on Unveillance, and ofcourse who can forget the Sony hacking that has went on. What the […]
Easyspace .CO.UK Sale – £5.98 for 2 Years
Here’s a great price promotion on .co.uk domains – Easyspace is discounting their .CO.UK domain names from the usual £9.50 for a 2 year domain registration to just £5.98 ! Promocode is: COUK598
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Easyspace Gains Accreditation For .XXX Domains
Easyspace, the leading UK domain name and web hosting provider, is happy announce the recent accreditation for the .xxx domain name, prior to the official release in September 2011. Joining recent accreditations for .eu, .me and .tel domain extensions, this latest ICM accreditation will complement Easyspace’s domain portfolio quiet well. Sarah Haran, managing director of Easyspace, […]
Embrace Non Traditional Marketing
A UK ad agency is paying students to advertise on their foreheads. Audi stole an A3 from a Manhattan dealership and recorded this on video – which quickly turned into a viral campaign as it spread across Facebook, Twitter, and hundreds of blogs and news sites. These are examples of what is known as ‘non-traditional […]
12 Free CSS Layout Generators
As a web developer you eventually get to a point when you notice every single website you work on starts off with the same basic concept. A template if you will. Of-course since you are a good web developer you are always looking to be able to do more in less time – and with […]
Google, Will Showing Recent Posts On My Homepage Cause A Duplicate Content Issue?
Google tweeted today about a new video/question they made live on their Youtube account. Will showing recent posts on my homepage cause a duplicate content issue? In short the answer is no, provided you do it correctly. Displaying the full blog post on your websites homepage AND on your blog may result in duplicate content. Google […]
Programming In C: Character Type Library Functions
Character Type Header File If you need to check what type of character the viewer typed, use ctype.h which is the character type header file. We write it like this: #include<ctype.h> Here is a list of character type library functions: isalpha checks if the input is an alphabetical letter isdigit checks if the input is a number […]
Programming In C: More Library Functions – strcmp, stricmp, strcat, strstr
strcmp: compare two strings You can compare the characters and spaces in a string using the strcmp function. For example, is “William Lambton” the same as “William Lamberton”? Using strcmp, the computer will compare each character and space, to see if they are identical. If the names are the same, the computer will return a value of […]
Programming In C: Library Functions for Strings – strcpy, strlen
C Library Functions for Strings C comes with libraries of special functions, that we can use in our programs. These functions are stored in the string header file, <string.h>, which we include at the beginning of our program: #include<string.h> Here is a list of string library functions: strcpy copies a string strlen calculates the length […]
Programming In C: Declaring Strings & Gets and Puts Functions
Declaring (Initializing) Strings As we learned in the lesson on Characters and Strings, a string is a character variable with more than one character. Strings can be abbreviations, words, phrases, sentences, or even paragraphs. To declare a string, use the char variable type, then specify how many characters are in the string. Add one to this number, because […]
Programming In C: Using a Pointer to Change the Value of a Variable
Declaring (Initializing) Pointers As we learned in the previous lesson, a pointer contains the address of a variable. Different types of variables have different types of pointers. For example, an integer variable will have an integer pointer; a float variable will have a float pointer. Pointers can be variables too. You can declare a pointer at […]
ICANN Unleashes the Global Human Imagination
“ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all of mankind,” said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN. So, get ready […]
Programming in C: Information Storage, Variable Addresses and Viewer Input
Information Storage We know that computers store information in memory. Each byte of information has a specific location in the memory area. This location is called the address. Whenever you use a variable, the value of the variable is stored in a specific address. This is why we used the ampersand & with the scanf […]
Computer Number Systems
Bits and Bytes Computers store information in bits, which are labeled 0 (empty) or 1 (full). A set of 8 bits is called a byte, like this: 1010 0010 Each byte has an address, which is labeled with a hexadecimal number, like this: C7.
SEO or SEM?
To be highly effective, a company needs to employ multi-marketing strategies, using a variety of approaches to reach their intended audience. An increasingly popular approach due to its low costs and large rewards is search engine marketing (SEM). With any other form of advertising, whether it is on a billboard, TV ad, or ad copy […]
Network Solutions is offering 3 Domains for $23!
Starting tomorrow (6/17/11) Network Solutions will be offering 3 domains names on sale for a total of $23, that’s roughly $7.66 per domain! This sale will run from 6/17/11 till 7/1/11. To take advantage of this offer click the link below and use coupon code: DOMAINS2AF during checkout. 3 Domains for $23 at Network Solutions! […]
Google +1 Snippet Doesn’t Work in IE7
Remember that Google+1 button we got so excited about earlier on? Well while doing some work on a client’s PC which happened to be running a pre-SP1 Windows Vista OS with IE7 installed and decided to head over to the blog and check how it loaded out. Everything worked great, except for the Google +1 […]
Just Host Review
I have been with Just Host for a little bit over 9 months now and it seemed about time to write up a decent review of their services. My hosting experience originally started on a 2.8ghz Pentium 3 server many many years back with Server Matrix (now simply The Planet). Yes, unlike most people I jumped […]