New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth - A
arstechnica.com — Two researchers have found that a pair of antifraud methods intended to increase the chances of detecting bogus social security numbers has actually allowed the statistical reconstruction of the number using information that many people place on social networking sites. More…
HTML 5 Drops Open-Source Video Codec
news.zdnet.com — Great, now we've gotta stick with Flash... | HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec. One of the key features of HTML 5 is its native handling of rich media such as video and audio through the and tags. However, "there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship." More…
10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug
sixrevisions.com — Though Firebug is already fully packed with features out of the box, several extensions out there can enhance its utility. In this article, you will find the 10 best Firefox extensions for Firebug that will make your life, as a developer or designer, easier. More…
How to Debug PHP Using Firefox with FirePHP
sixrevisions.com — This article shares an elegant, simple, and more maintainable way of debugging Ajax apps via the web browser (more specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser). You'll learn the basics of leveraging Firefox in conjunction with Firebug and FirePHP to implement FirePHP libraries on web apps and logging messages in the Firebug console. More…
20 Promising Open Source PHP Content Management Systems(CMS)
webdesignbooth.com — Content Management System, or CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system. HTML and other scripting language are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages. More…
Coding a Clean & Illustrative Web Design from Scratch
sixrevisions.com — In this comprehensive and step-by-step web development tutorial, you will learn how to convert a Photoshop mockup of a professional web layout design that features an illustrative landscape header into a standards-compliant XHTML/CSS template. More…
What do Programmers Feel About their Software?
natpryce.com — Are they happy with their system? Disgusted? Saddened? A little program was written to extract the comments from the source code and feed them into Synesketch, a textual emotion recognition and visualization engine. The program ignores documentation comments, while comments used for private communication between team members were considered. More…
20+ Ready to Use Auto Completion Scripts
dzineblog.com — Auto Completion has become one of the coolest user interaction element in websites lately and most of the famous sites from google, youtube to msn have auto completion based search boxes.so this time i’ve Collected 20+ Ready to Use Auto Completion Scripts vary from CSS,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . More…

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