Archive for March, 2008

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

CICS commands

One of the main ways that mainframe computers provide for interactive programs is via CICS (pronounced “kicks”). This reference page lists all of the common commands that you are likely to need to use in writing a CICS program including all of the parameters that can be specified with these commands.
CICS commands

Friday, March 14th, 2008

JavaScript Math Methods and Properties

This page lists all of the properties and methods of the JavaScript Math static object. The methods allow you to round numbers in the desired direction as well as providing a selection of trigonometric functions. The properties allow you to reference such numbers as pi and e to the best precision that JavaScript supports without [...]

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Common Linux Commands

Different Linux versions implement a slightly different set of commands but there is a significant group of commands that almost all versions understand. This reference page lists all of the most commonly supported commands along with a brief description of what each is for.
Common Linux Commands

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Hacking - The Art of Exploitation

When reviewing books on security is always interesting to see both where the author claims to stand with regards to the ethics of white hat / black hat techniques as well as whether or not the information presented in the book reflects that stance. This book provides a lot of practical information that will definitely [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Image Gallery

This unobtrusive JavaScript demonstrates how you can add image gallery rollover effects to your web page and still keep all of the JavaScript in a completely separate file.
Image Gallery

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Easter Calculator

With Easter now not all that far away it seems appropriate that the latest addition to my site be a new unobtrusive version of my Easter Calculator script. This version not only uses unobtrusive techniques to keep the JavaScript completely out of the HTML but it also includes a corresponding PHP Easter calculator that will, [...]

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Manipulating Your Background Image

Back when I wrote this article it was still fairly common to pollute your HTML with deprecated attributes to define your page appearance such as the background attribute on the body tag. Even back then the better way to specify your page background was to use stylesheets since there are many things that can be [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

IMS Calls

Whether you are using Cobol or PL/1 the calls that you make from a batch program to an IMS database will be almost the same. This reference page lists all of the parameters you need to pass to the call along with the values that can be used for many of those parameters and what [...]