Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Erro... most widespread and critical programming errors that can... software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, a... exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently...
The Top 25

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents... helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3... web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern ... tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining pow... components

unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOf... It uses OpenOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive co... documents.
Supported document formats include Open Document Format ...

You would need a strong head for heights and nerves of s... live in this vacation home built on the side of a cliff ...

"An exhaustive - if bonkers - work of genius!" Mike Tucker
In the spring of 2002, before most of the world had hear ...

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

DataDryad.org is a curated general-purpose repository th... underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely ... citable. Dryad has integrated data submission for a grow... journals; submission of data from other publications is ...

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source refe... anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in Lon ...

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

DataSift is the real time social media filtering engine ... which builds upon the success of TweetMeme, the consumer... MediaSift Ltd.
DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting†...
The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consu

Bunny’s Technorati Tags provides you with template fun... display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are sto... Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications... structure. The plugin adds a text input for that custom ... appropriate

What can I do with the AIM SDK?
This code allows you to add AIM functionality into the p ...
What does that mean?
You can integrate the full power of the AIM service into ...

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e

Apple’s File System Events API gives applications the ... changes to paths containing relevant files recursively w... directory tree, both during execution and between launch... System Events API tackles the problem of detecting chang... chunk of th

Getting Geographic Locations
iPhone OS Note: Geographic location classes are availabl ...
Use the JavaScript classes described in this chapter to ...

Beginning in Safari 3.1 and iPhone OS 2.0, Safari suppor... JavaScript database class. The JavaScript database class... provides a very basic relational database intended for l... content that is too large to conveniently store in cooki...
Because it

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up... of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant ... impressive portfolio of real-world applications already ...
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored ...
This articl

This article guides you through the AJAX basics and give...
Contents [hide]
1 What's AJAX?
2 Step 1 – say "Please!" or How to Make an HTTP Request
... tep 4 – "The X-Files" or Working with the XML Response

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

This tutorial will take you through the steps required t... basic extension - one which adds a status bar panel to t... containing the text "Hello, World!"

Code snippets:File I/O
From MDC
This article describes local file input/output in chrome ...
You access the file system using Mozilla XPCOM component ...

Code snippets:Running applications
From MDC
This page describes how to run other programs from your ...

OpenSearch
Firefox 2 supports the OpenSearch description format for ...

The class of the object returned by window.getSelection(... methods.

MMgc
From MDC
MMgc is the Tamarin (née Macromedia) garbage collector, ...

XUL:browser
From MDC
« XUL Reference home [ Examples | Attributes | Prope ...
A frame which is expected to contain a view of a Web doc ...