These free polls from Lucky Polls can easily be dropped in a webpage or blog, even on blogs that don’t let you use JavaScript, I-frames, or forms. They consist simply of a list of regular anchor-links which connect to the Lucky Polls website and record your vote according to which link you click. This also makes them easy to style and to make unobtrusive in a sidebar. For an example, see the sidebar on this blog.
There are efforts about to collaborate on an application and method to allow not only the closed-captioning/text-captioning of audio and video by the community but to do so in multiple languages. The effort is mainly aimed at education, as current captioning activities are disjointed and poor countries try to access a wealth of higher-education knowledge.
Programmer Micheal Sutton designs a test approach and uses an application written in C# to find vulnerable websites and check them for certain tell-tale SQL error messages
Terrific articles and research on website accessibility and usability from a professional usability evaluation firm. Strongly recommended for everyone, absolutely required reading if you do professional website design
Classic article about what can go wrong when you do not design websites with accessibility and usability in mind. This article is must reading for everyone, not just those who have international readers.
Internationalization means presenting website content in multiple languages and/or properly identifying the language and character set of a document so that content is served correctly regardless of a user’s installed fonts. (Related issues include making your websites generally usable, like coding HTML forms that allow international users to enter their correct information without validation errors.)
Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software, discusses interviewing methodology and principles and what works for him. Progammers who are job-seeking will find this very insightful.
