December 2011
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Yahoo’s Open Data Tables and the YQL Console – An Overview
I’ve been looking into the Yahoo Query Language (YQL) specification available on the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN). The scope of the functionality exposed is quite impressive and I would certainly suggest checking this out to anyone serious about Web-based programming. What is YQL? Yahoo has allied itself with a number of websites and online services,…
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URL Shortening is a Growing Security Risk
URL shortening services are ubiquitous nowadays, and I agree that there are many benefits to having a short link rather than a long and sometimes meaningless URL. However the fact that links to potentially dangerous sites can now easily be obfusticated makes URL shortening a very dangerous thing when put into the hands of the…
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showModalDialog Opens a New Window on Submit or location.href
The ShowModalDialog function has been in use for a long time and is now part of the emerging HTML5 specification. Although there are many pro and con arguments for using using this function, the fact remains that it has been extensively used in past and it continues to serve a useful function under specific conditions.…