Michael S. Clark

Today’s the day! Click here to watch for progress. Update: Those of you that want to get Firefox 3.0 right now can use this FTP link, everyone else that wants to help try to set a world record will have to wait until 10am PDT and hit up the official site.

The VeriSign timestamping service is being upgraded to provide a higher-level of security. The timestamping service currently uses the hash algorithm called MD5 to create the timestamp. Although no actual incidents of breaking MD5 have been reported, modern computing power is making it easier to mount attacks against MD5.

I’ve been waiting a while for The Courier (my local paper) to provide an RSS feed for their news stories. Anyway, I decided to do one myself. I’ve zipped up the code here and I’ve hosted it on my employer’s server here. Give me a shout if you find an errors or improvements.

There it was. A quiet, thoughtful moment, right in the midst of our rat-a-tat assault. There’s not much room for unnecessary thought during a drive-by shooting — aim and pull the trigger, aim and pull the trigger — but this one provided an odd moment of stillness and clarity. As time slowed to a crawl [...]

Here’s a crossover that I didn’t expect -  Ricky Gervais in GTA IV: One of the most anticipated games of the year has to be GTA IV, and will be a huge hit once it is released. The game has been written about to death now and we all assume we know all there is [...]

Matthew Dent who won the open competition to design the new coins, launched by the Royal Mint, in August 2005, was born the year before the 20 pence coin entered circulation. A graphic designer, originally from north Wales, with a nice sense of humour, Dent has shown that it is possible, even in 2008, to [...]

While reading the latest installment of the CodeProject newsletter, I thought I’d highlight some of the useful topics: AJAX-style Asynchronous Progress Dialog for WinForms – A base class for adding a rich asynchronous progress animation to any Form xml to json – convert xml to json – faster, stronger and more comfortable Running a Web [...]

One of the clients of the company I work for required a client that was predominantly keyboard based to enable them to perform batch processing. This wasn’t a problem as netBake has similar functionality to enable fast entry of Orders, etc. Whilst the client was evaluating the latest build of the client, she noticed that [...]

For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. For the first time ever, we have compiled most of the Star Wars-themed Holiday Cards on one page. [Via: Slashfilm]

Further to the previous post, I am using javascript to parse times in the form “09:00″ selected from a drop down list. To get the hours and minutes, I was using the following code: … var theHours = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(0,2)); var theMinutes = parseInt(theTimeDDL.options[theTimeDDL.selectedIndex].value.substring(3,5)); … Unfortunately, the above will return 0 for the values of 08 [...]