There are many instances when user input is needed. But allowing just any code to be passed can cause severe problems and lead to even the most annoying 10 year old script kiddie writing “PWND” all over website!

There a are some simple steps which you can take to prevent most of these.
This article will go over some of the fundamental XSS attacks and how to stop them.

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Google’s search engine is used everyday by many people. But a high percentage of those people use it ineffectively!

The geeks at Google have included some great search operators to make the immense task of searching every site in their cache a little easier.

In this tutorial I hope to teach some quick techniques to make searching Google a breeze.
Put the most powerful software ever made to use!

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This is a great performance by Tim Minchin singing: If I Didn’t Have You.
This video was recorded live for the Secret Policeman’s Ball.
The music is hosted by Tim Minchin’s blog page HERE

A great musical comic.

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A DHTML calculator with error checking. Definitely more stylish than the traditional JavaScript calculator, if nothing else!

Very easy to customize and would fit well into a website providing a variable rate service and suchlike.

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Web developers loathe the task of building forms almost as much as users loathe having to fill them in. These are both unfortunate facts of the Web, but some smart JavaScript and intelligent CSS can go a long way to remedying the situation. In this article, I’ll introduce a number of simple tricks for improving the usability of forms, and hopefully inspire you to improve on them and create your own.

I’m going to start off with some simple tricks, before introducing the interesting stuff later on. If the material seems too simple for you, feel free to skip ahead.
It’s the Little Things that Count.

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