qHighlight! – The First Project Out of Dave’s Lab.com
Mar 24 2009
(You can skip all this emotional gobbledy-gook below by going below the fold)
Starting from when I first started playing around with making websites, I had dreams of owning my own dot com website. Initially, I was just using Front Page to place some files onto a free web account, which I believe was on Lycos’ Tripod, now out of business. Later a friend of mine who owned a dedicated server was nice enough to give me a little space, and I continued to play with these emerging technologies. Only this time, I didn’t have ads on my page!
While I was excited by the prospect of having my own websites, the strongest description I could give to these efforts is “dabbling.” In college, however, I returned to my old curiosity and started to code HTML by hand. Unlike before, I now had access to awesome computers all over my campus and a smokin’ broadband internet connection, as well as one tiny programming course under my belt. I dove right on in and became immersed. Armed with 100 MB on my college’s web server and the kind help of my college webmaster, I had free reign to learn HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, etc etc.
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Tags: bookmarklets, javascript, projects, sourcecode, utilities
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For the first few years of my life on a computer, I knew almost nothing about security. I built my first desktop PC at age 15 and I loved it. I was cheap, so I put Windows XP Home on it, ignoring the warnings of my older and wiser geek friend about XP Professional vs Home. I turned it on, happily clicked the seemingly-smiling blue E icon on my desktop, and blazed about the interweb on my 56K connection. I paid no intention to passwords, firewalls, antivirus software (I knew about it, but remember, I was cheap), or anything resembling safe browsing habits. Several nasty trojans and something called the “Zlob worm” later, I started to take what you might call a mild interest in security.
