Directory listing allows a person to see list of files and folders of a targeted directory on your website. This is something not serious itself but may help someone to launch attack on your site. So it is good practice to turn-off or prevent directory listing by default and then, if needed, Continue reading

This article is for web designers here. I recommend this articles to all bloggers as well. Many bloggers go for free third-party themes which may not follow standards all the time, so you can check if theme you are using is working fine in all major browsers. Reason for highlighting major in Continue reading

If you have visited Devils Workshop from your web browser in last 18 hours, you may have noticed new theme by now. As expected, I received mix response for theme. But before analyzing them, I would like to highlight some points which were on my mind while working on new theme. First thing, I was Continue reading

This is for all Greasemonkey developers who also use Firebug. Firebug is one of the best Firefox extension for developers. To start with, almost every Greasemonkey developer uses built-in API method “GM_log()” to log debugging messages to Firefox’s javascript console. While Continue reading

There are many websites which prefer to disable right-clicking on web-pages specially images. To do this they normally use one of JavaScript ways. The most popular way is to add following code to element tag on which you want to disable right-clicking. oncontextmenu="return false;" For example, Continue reading

If you are a programmer, then you must have encountered regular expressions sometime back in your carrier. If you are good at regular expressions, then hats off to you. Otherwise there are some tools which can make your life easy. There is one online and one offline tool  that I often use Continue reading

Recently Darnell and Gaurav posted about Orkuts limit of 25 Orkut Apps. Many users who always want unlimited things might be surprised to know this limit. But if you look carefully this approach have a good side and for the first time I feel this limit is something, Facebook should have copied Continue reading

Rolling out first in Estonia, then in India, Orkut Apps finally became available worldwide. Orkut Developer Blog announced yesterday that they have finished rollout of OpenSocial apps to all orkut users. This means you no longer need to change your country to enjoy Orkut apps. I have noticed Continue reading

This is for all php programmers using Windows. If you are planning to use CURL library on PHP then you may encounter an error like below. Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in F:\proj\orkutfeeds\trunk\index.php on line 15 I encountered above while developing orkutfeeds. Curl is Continue reading

This article is intended for all geeks who are working on firefox extension development! If you are new to this then you may want to start with shortest tutorial for firefox extension development! This is small but important tutorial for those who seriously want to develop firefox extensions. As Continue reading