Recent content by marquist

Huge thanks for sharing your strategy meathead. It just shows how many approaches there are to creating sites that people want to buy.

Maybe there are just a lot of poorly informed buyers on Flippa.

I wonder how long it'll be before the nannies ban this in the UK (for our own safety of course).

Interesting that this can be used to win clients for a whole offline business based around maintaining the sites, not just affiliated hosting etc. Been thinking about this for a while.

Seems unlikely that copies from China are anything but preactivated pirated copies. Don't know whether you are the OP principe, but legitimate OEM licenses might be fine, I have seen them for sale on ebay before.

Thanks so much for compiling this, there are places here I would never have found otherwise.

I really like the site and the name made me laugh :) Since you asked for constructive criticism, the first thing that popped into my head was that the wide news boxes seem a bit visually muddled, it's not obvious that the dark blue bars are actually part of the enclosing box, they look more like...

I would suggest actually trying to write programs instead of reading a book cover to cover. The first 7 chapters of every programming book are the same tedious regurgitation of exactly how a 'for' loop works, that will just not sink in unless they're seen and used in context. Get your hands...

Apart from sandboxed languages like Javascript, general purpose languages seldom impose any serious restrictions on the programmer that are inherent to the language itself. When it comes down to it, a language is just a grammar. If the most powerful language is the one that's used to build the...

I've read this 4 times and don't understand what you want to do :) If you want a link or button on your website that causes the user to log into another website with particular credentials, it's pretty tricky because forms in a page on one domain will not post to a URL under another domain (for...

It's easy to say you don't care about money when all it means to you is whether or not you can have a watch or a plasma TV. Not so easy when it means whether or not you can eat or buy medicine.

What that site is doing is using a flash movie that contains the source image. The image is inside the movie, not anywhere in the page itself. The javascript code you quoted replaces the flash with a fallback image if the user has an old flash version, but that's not what you see normally.

Are you sure it's not just an ordinary HTTP cookie? Did you clear them out?

Google Reader does something similar to this when you subscribe to a site that doesn't have an RSS feed, although obviously it's generic. The general approach would be to periodically fetch the target page, parse it, regenerate the RSS feed for the [n] most recent items. It's not too hard, RSS...

For me there's not much to recommend Windows 7 over XP -- more nanny dialog boxes, a slower shell, and shiny see-through windows that nobody cares about.