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SQL Injection Scanner

Posted by: adnanrashid on: August 13, 2008

Being a web developer, its important we realize the threat and severity of SQL Injection. Unfortunately detecting such vulnerabilities is time-consuming and eventually we might not even be able to identify all the loop holes.
HP Security Labs provides a free tool called Scrawlr that scan your site and patches up the exploits. This great tool [...]

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CSS Compressor

Posted by: adnanrashid on: July 16, 2008

As a web designer, we use resources like CSS and javascript. These files should be optimized using compression for reducing the file size and hence the load time.
To decrease the file size web designers can follow 3 guidelines:

Remove whitespace like tabs, spaces, blank lines, etc.
Remove unused CSS classes and ID’s.
Use shorthand wherever applicable. For example [...]

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Compare Fonts

Posted by: adnanrashid on: July 8, 2008

I was designing a template for a web application and i wanted to try out something new. The user interface revolves around a compatible set of layout, colors, images and fonts. So i was Googling for a tool to help me compare Fonts and thier web compatibility. I came across a great tool called Typetester. [...]

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Picnik Online Image Editing

Posted by: adnanrashid on: July 7, 2008

Although we cant all be photo image editing experts, tools like this can definitely help you come very close. Picknik provides a clean and easy user interface that will get you started on tweaking your favorite images in no time. With an abundant set of Fonts, special effects and other advanced settings, this tool is [...]

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