Archive for the “web and tech” category

Securing passwords in your database

by Luke Rodgers on February 19, 2009

Add salt to your encrypted passwords for extra tastiness

How to email a CEO

by Luke Rodgers on February 18, 2009

Basically: first a letter, then email

The Napoleon Dynamite problem

by Luke Rodgers on February 18, 2009

This is an old (If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That, Nov ‘08) but good article from the New York Times that I read parts of online, but just read in its entirety in the NYT print version. (…)

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Inconsolata: a nice, new (free!) monospace font

by Luke Rodgers on February 16, 2009

Proving that monospace fonts don’t have to suck

To LibraryThing widget users:

by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009

Librarything.com went down, leading to issues for users of my LibraryThing widget.

Improve your pagination’s usability

by Luke Rodgers on February 15, 2009

In short: pad your a elements liberally

IE6 CSS hacks with Wordpress.com

by Luke Rodgers on February 12, 2009

A trick for tweaking the CSS of your Wordpress.com blog for IE6.

No video in email for 2009

by Luke Rodgers on February 4, 2009

So sayeth Campaign Monitor