Author Archive for Alix

CSS Multibrowser Tool

So, you want to make your CSS look and work great in both Firefox and IE?

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Ask A Ninja, Question 45 “Omnitrois”

Check out the 45th episode of Ask a Ninja videos, this last one is called “Omnitrois”: http://www.askaninja.com/omnitrois?video=flash.

Why is Jimbo Wales smiling?

I’ve scanned this nice article about Jimbo Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) I read on ExecutiveDigest today (sorry, only Portuguese).

Jimbo Wales Smiling

Jimbo Wales Smiling

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Peter Norvig builds Palindrome

Peter Norvig, the director of search quality at Google wrote a program to generate the World’s Longest Palindrome that has about 17,259 words.

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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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PHP CAPTCHA Decoder

I’ve developed a simple OCR CAPTCHA decoder in PHP, it’s pretty fast and breaks with a 100% success rate all CAPTCHAs that meet some requirements.

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Two very useful programs…

I was searching for software that could display a visual representation of database relationships and I came across these two gems on Open Source Windows.

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PHP Friendly Password Generator

Today I’ll be sharing an algorithm that I use quite a lot, for generating passwords that are easily memorable and spelled - one may also call this type of passwords mnemonic passwords.

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Next

I just saw Next, a movie with Nicolas Cage role playing as Cris Johnson, a illusionist who can see the future 2 minutes ahead and whose artistic name is “Frank Cadillac”.

Next

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Your money or your life!

Very nice comic on codecomics.com:

Your money or your life!

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