webddr

It used to be easy for Web server administrators. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS), if you didn’t, you used Apache. Now, though, you have more Web server choices and one of the leading alternatives, the open-source NGINX Web server, is gaining fast. (more)

Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy ’80s rock ballad coming from the speaker phone, interrupted by “Thank you for holding. You are now caller number 126 in the queue.” That’s your boss calling the hosting company’s 24 hour “technical support” line. (more)

Google Hacking

This is by far the easiest hack of all. It really is extraordinary what you can find in Google’s index. And here’s Newsflash #1: you can find a wealth of actual usernames and passwords using search strings.

Copy and paste these into Google:

inurl:passlist.txt
inurl:passwd.txt

…and this one is just priceless… (more)

But what if you like the jQuery syntax? One way to illustrate the power of MooTools is to show you how easy it is to change it to suit your tastes. If we wanted to implement the hover method from jQuery in MooTools, we could easily do so: (more)

If you look at the things jQuery can do, there’s often a counterpart in MooTools. If you look at the things MooTools can do, there is often no way to emulate it using jQuery code because of jQuery’s focus on the DOM. MooTools has a broader functionality than jQuery, but there’s nothing about jQuery that prevents you from doing those things. For example, jQuery does not come with any sort of inheritance system, but that’s ok. You could, if you want, use the MooTools Class in conjunction with jQuery if you wanted to (or write your own). (more)

And this is why jQuery is more accessible. It doesn’t ask that you learn JavaScript inside and out. It doesn’t throw you into the deep end with prototypal inheritance, binding, “this”, and native prototypes. When you get started with jQuery in its official tutorial, this is the first jQuery code example you find: (more)

Because MooTools focuses on making the JavaScript API itself more stable and coherent, it is focused less on giving you an interface that “changes the way you write JavaScript” and more on making JavaScript as a whole less frustrating; MooTools is an extension to the JavaScript language. MooTools tries to make JavaScript the way it is meant to be. A significant portion of the core library is spent on augmenting Function, String, Array, Number, Element and other prototypes. The other big thing it offers is a function called Class. (more)