Update the hacker map 05/03/2008 When I created the “Hackers in Your Neighborhood” map last December, I wasn’t sure what the response would be. I...
HOWTO – embed fonts from a SWF into a Flex app 05/02/2008 I haven’t done any coding in Flex yet, but I came across this howto today that illustrates how simple it...
Server-side Google Analytics 05/01/2008 Peter van der Graaf did a little analysis of the URLs that are generated by the Google Analytics Javascript API...
Remember before you forget, but no sooner. 04/30/2008 There’s a fascinating article by Gary Wolf in this month’s Wired titled “Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender...
Stop XSS attacks with SafeHTML 04/29/2008 If you allow user-contributed content in your site, you run into the problem of dealing with user supplied HTML in...
Improving astronomical video using VirtualDub 04/28/2008 YouTube user kwakhed23 pushed out this video showing before and after imagery of the Moon. In the “before” part of...
DIY 7×5 LED scroller 04/27/2008 Kalanda sent in this 7×5 dot matrix LED scroller based on the Attiny2313 AVR microcontroller. It looks like a fun...
iPhone LoJack – location tracking for your iPhone 04/26/2008 Erica Sadun put together a great tool for iPhone users who’d like to keep tabs on their iPhone’s location. Instead...
Simple bike computer from scratch 04/25/2008 Here’s an excellent tutorial that’ll show you how to build and program a bike computer using a PIC and a...
Open GPS Tracker 04/24/2008 Now this looks like fun: The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile...