Web Services

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  • Socially engineering the web

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    Outfoxed is a Firefox plugin that relies on a database built by other trusted Outfoxed users to tell you whether sites are good, bad, or dangerous. From the Outfoxed website: There are over 8 billion web pages. Most of them suck. Outfoxed uses your network of trusted friends and experts to help you find the…

  • Adblock list

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    The adblock extension for Firefox allows users to block unwanted advertisements from webpages. This provides for a much faster, cleaner, and enjoyable browsing experience. However, to block those unwanted ads, you have to add filters to your adblock plugin. One could either go through all of the websites that one visits and add filters for…

  • New Web Coordinator

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    We are very excited to announce that we have recently added a brand new Web Coordinator to our team. His name is Jerry Nowell and we are anxious to see what the future holds for us. Jerry previously served as the E-Commerce Coordinator for the Department of Tourism and State Development in Pierre, South Dakota.…

  • Japan golf blog

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    The Gustavus Men’s Golf coach, Scott Moe, is in Toyota City, Japan right now. He was selected as the coach for the U.S. Junior Boys’ National Team at the Toyota World Junior Cup. From the athletics site: The 2005 World Junior Golf Cup is being played at the Chukyo Golf Club Ishino Course in Toyota…

  • CF docs lookup

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    If you have never used it, you’ll be sorry that you didn’t know about it sooner. There is a brilliant tool for looking up anything in the ColdFusion documentation. It’s called CFDocs.org and it’s a definite time-saver. How it works: you set a cookie on your computer that tells CFDocs.org what version of ColdFusion you…

  • Firefox extensions that I use

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    I am about to switch to a new machine and am working on consolidating all of my data that I need to move. So I got to thinking that it would be nice to have a list of all the Firefox extensions that I use to help me with the switch. Then I was thinking…

  • HTML tag regular expression

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    We found this regular expression online at haacked.com for finding html tags in a string. I used this in the new Gustavus eCard program that I have been working on (stay tuned) as a way to get the text of captions which contain hyperlinks. This regular expression was written by Phil Haack. </?w+(((s|n)+w+((s|n)*=(s|n)*(?:”.*?”|’.*?’|[^'”>s]+))?)+(s|n)*|(s|n)*)/?> This expression…

  • Regular expression for e-mail

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    Regular expressions can be very useful and efficient if used properly. For a while now in some of our applications we have been using the following regular expression to check e-mail addresses for proper formatting. ^[_a-z0-9-]+(.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(.[a-z0-9-]+)*.(([a-z]{2,3})|(aero|coop|info|museum|name))$ This will ensure that the user has entered a properly formatted e-mail address such as user@domain.com.

  • Gustavus search plugins

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    Update (October 25, 2006) — These plugins have been updated and are compatible with Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. If you have recently converted to the new and increasingly popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox, you may have noticed that there is a built-in search box that can search different sites such as Google, Yahoo!,…

  • The Legacy of the Nobel Conference website

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    Each year Web Services is handed the task of creating a website for the Nobel Conference. This site is intended to provide accessible information to be used in the publicizing of the Nobel Conference. Designs for this site in the past have maintained the look-and-feel of the poster and other promotional materials for that year’s…