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Thin borders fade automatically in Firefox

First time I noticed this: The div with the logo and the language selection div below have a 10px solid left border in blue (matching the background color) and a 1px white bottom border, which leads to a nice gradient in Firefox 3:

Nice, though I wonder if this behaviour can be influenced. In IE, Firefox [...]

SQL Injections – why companies should care (and users, too)

While I had read reports about successful mass SQL attacks on hundreds of thousands – by some estimates even millions – of websites months ago, I didn’t really care much, assuming that this issue would only concern outdated, irrelevant and poorly coded websites.
I realized I was wrong (partially wrong) about a week ago when I [...]

Expression web span lang tags

Does Expression Web (version 1 or 2) add tags (“lang spans”) to everything you type in design view? It nearly drove me crazy with this behavior and the many language-related options in different menus, but after I figured out what was going on I actually came to appreciate this feature (when working on multilingual sites).

Best of SQL injection attacks*

Best of SQL injection attacks (no, it wasn’t me)…

Expression Web UI language settings

After installing Expression Web (version 1) and the German language pack on my new PC running the German version of Windows Vista (Home Premium x64), my previously English Expression Web suddenly displayed the user interface (UI) in – you guessed it – German. I’m not sure if the language pack or the operating system is [...]

Luxembourg: Referral recruitment on the web

Do your friends like to complain about their jobs? Do you sometimes think they should pay you just for listening to them? Well, x-change.lu can’t do that, but if you use this new recruiting website to find a job for someone else you can earn between 250 and 5000 €! (Yes, we’re [...]

Luxembourg’s new airport (terminal)

Some pictures from last weekend. The new terminal A goes into operation on May 21st.
Links: Wort.lu has pictures of the construction and a “special report” (PDF, in German).

Sharing session data across domains with PHP

The problem: Multiple domains hosted on one server needed access to the user’s session data. In my case, various shopping domains were sharing one (SSL-enabled) domain where the users could place their orders.
The solution I found was surprisingly simple: Since these domains were hosted on the same server and used the same session [...]

LEO spricht jetzt auch Chinesisch

Auf der ursprünglich für ihr Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch bekannten Seite LEO ist seit kurzem auch ein Deutsch-Chinesisches Wörterbuch verfügbar. Unterstützt werden sowohl traditionelle als auch vereinfachte Schriftzeichen sowie Pīnyīn. Die Pīnyīn-Eingabe kann praktischerweise auch mit Ziffern für die Töne erfolgen, so z.B. yan2lun4 zi4you2 statt yánlùn zìyóu (weitere Suchtipps hier).

Delete line numbers from program code listings

Many of the books available on O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online come in HTML format, which I like because it makes it easy to copy code straight out of the book (no need to search for the “companion files”). However, program listings in books often use line numbers, which prevent the code from running if it’s [...]