Create strong passwords that you can remember

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Create strong passwords that you can remember

By jeffreydavidsz on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment

The key is to find a formula which you always remember. I found this a couple of years ago, it might be useful for someone. Lets use the domain name of a site (because you alway’s have that when logging in), in this case blog.davidsz.nl and translate it into a password like; $%d@v1Dsz&* Seems difficult? [...]

KeePass and Dropbox on Iphone or Ipad

By jeffreydavidsz on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 | No Comments

While surfing on the net, you probably have many passwords. For security reasons, it’s good not to use the same password for all of the websites. But how do you remember all of them? I use a simple free program that is called KeePass (http://keepass.info/). It created a small encrypted database where you can store [...]

Using Captcha on your website

By jeffreydavidsz on Sunday, July 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Once you start creating forms for users to fill in. You might cross a problem; a spam bot. These bot scan you website and fill for example your guestbook. Using Captcha to check if the form fields are beeing filled by I human user is a good way to prevent this. You have probably seen [...]

Export your Linkedin contact’s

By jeffreydavidsz on Sunday, July 24th, 2011 | No Comments

When you build up a great network on linkedin, sometimes you want to do something with that data. Lucky for us, they build in a standard feature to export your complete contact list to a comma separated file. When you are logged in into Linkedin follow this link: http://www.linkedin.com/addressBookExport The link will get you to [...]

Hash passwords for you website

By jeffreydavidsz on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

When you are writing an aplication and you store passwords, You don’t want to store them as plain text, like; Login: Jeffrey Password: SomeThingNice What you extualy would like to store is something like this; Login: Jeffrey Password: $LMAYBZcwt7cql80KFF9uSeGlkdqnYdMM.o0veWQALw7 The advantage of a password is that you only need to check if your user filled [...]

Auto SyntaxHighlighter

By jeffreydavidsz on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | No Comments

I’m gonna post allot of code here. Developers would like to read (and copy and pate of course) the code they need. There is a good plugin for that which I’m using: Auto SystaxtHighlighter. Just go to the plugin part of your dashboard and install it. Then when activated, there is a extra button on [...]

What is Ping Back on WordPress?

By jeffreydavidsz on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | No Comments

A pingback is a special type of WordPress comment that is automatically created whenever somebody links to one of your posts from their own blog. These comments include a short excerpt of the post that linked to yours as well as a direct link to it; what you do with the pingback depends on where [...]

installing WYSIWYG editor with image upload function in ASP.net

By jeffreydavidsz on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | 1 Comment

While creating my own CMS (content management system) for my clients, I was searching for a good WYSIWYG editor. Although many editors are availible. There aren’t many editors that support uploading images the way CKEditor does. How do you install this on an ASP.net driven website? Step 1) Download the package from: http://download.cksource.com/CKEditor/CKEditor.NET/CKEditor.NET%203.6.1/ckeditor_aspnet_3.6.1.zip Step 2) Unzip [...]

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