http://www.beneskew.com Just another web developer weblog. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (DISCLAIMER: The software attached is NOT legal to use but is legal to view and has educational value to those who would like to learn how to connect to remote servers using the HTTP protocol (and Winsock) through their Visual Basic applications for PC. During development stages of this application ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/11/hitman-visual-basic-source-code-aol-pwc/ I've recently decided to let the world gasp in horror and amazement at all of my old source projects which I made using Visual Basic way back in the day when I was learning how to program on PC's. This all includes my old AOL & AIM related projects (yep, including ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/11/to-be-releasing-all-my-old-vb-projects-soon/ For those of you who do not know me personally or formally, here goes a bit of helpful information. I'm currently 30 years old and I've been learning and programming with PHP for a bit over 6 years. In these past six years I've basically taught myself the language using books, ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/11/php-tips-and-help/ Today, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced the discovery of the largest known ring system around Saturn, the second largest planet in our Solar System, and it's quite intriguing. This new belt lies extremely far from the gas giant, beginning around 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers) away from the planet and ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/10/jpl-announces-discovery-of-largest-saturnian-ring/ When you first decide to create a website you're obviously hit with a first question... "Should I use a pre-made content management system or does this website and/or concept need its own custom content management system?" Depending on the type of website this question could be easily answered. "Does this website need any ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/10/so-youre-developing-a-web-application-aye/ The evolution of the HyperText Markup Language has definitely been a long one and now is finally coming to a crossroads where it will be putting out of business many other technologies developed in the past to handle HTML's inadequacies. The new version of HTML is almost ready for professional ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/09/html-5-the-end-all-be-all-almost/ I've been asked time and time again by acquaintances and some friends even "what do you do for a living? Every time I see you, you're wearing casual clothing (shorts & sandals) even when you say you just got done working." Well, as I've told many the same thing I ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/09/who-am-i-and-what-do-i-do/ Ever since Ext JS has become so popular amongst other web developers there has been a huge influx of interested developers. One of these such interests has evolved into a huge help to the Ext JS community as a whole. On November 18, 2008 Abraham Elias of Ext success posted ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/09/use-ext-js-without-paying-for-the-bandwidth/ Ever since man has discovered its place within the Universe we've been energized by the thoughts of colonizing other bodies other than the Earth. When we landed on the Moon we were at the pinnacle of our goal which was to place a man on the Moon. After which we ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/09/lcross-first-steps-to-colonizing-space/ Since its placement in near-Earth orbit on the 24th of April, 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has been taking amazing images of interstellar space like none have before. Recently the telescope has undergone an upgrade, or more known throughout the NASA community as a "surgery" of sorts and is back ... http://www.beneskew.com/2009/09/hubble-space-telescope-better-than-ever/