Mainfram Reality

Jeremiah Grossman wrote an article I know where you’ve been.The article states:

I updated the blog template to display some proof-of-concept browser history stealing JavaScript code.

Reading the post I realized I wrote an exact same script last year and I have managed to get it working in IE.The concept is simple, add the link to the DOM and compare the color of the text to the body vLink color value, if the colors are the same, then the browser has been to the URL.I’ve used the technique to monitor how many visitors coming to one of my client’s websites were also visiting the websites of the competitors. I’ve also used it to monitor potential websites on which my client was considering advertising their site on. It is not 100% accurate, but its a great way to get a general idea about the habits of visitors coming to a site.Download the script: hasURLBeenVisited.zip 2.13Kb

Guys at webfx.eae.net have released yet another great library, the Chart library.The Chart library works with Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Opera 9 and Internet Explorer 6 by utilizing the Canvas wikipedia. Internet Explorer does not support the Canvas natively, so an emulation layer IECanvas is used.

Microsoft has announced a release of XNA Game Studio Express. The release will be available to the public around 30th of August 2006 for $99USD annual subscription free.The XNA Game Studio Express is the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console. The idea is to create a community of game developers that can create their own games and post/share the games on the Microsoft’s Xbox Live online service.What I am really interested in is the ability to write software other them games for the Xbox, and if this will be possible with the XNA Game Studio Express.If nothing else at least it should be fun creating games.

I thought I’d post this JavaScript wikipedia Browser Detect script. The script was developed by Eric Krok, Andy King and Michel Plung, and was sourced from http://www.webreference.com/.Download Browser Detect Script browserdetect.zip

Harish Ranganathan has written a post titled ASP.NET 2.0 Performance Tuning Considerations. The article is a great summary of several important issues to consider when performance tuning an ASP.NET application. The main considerations are:

• Paging through Records
• Turn off Session State
• Turn off View State
• Use Caching
• Use IsPostBack
• Use DataSources