Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Incorporating Captcha on Oracle Apex site

Check out this fantastic article by Patric on integrating Captcha on Oracle Apex. It works beautifully.

http://www.inside-oracle-apex.com/2007/09/adding-captcha-to-your-oracle-apex.html

Friday, January 9, 2009

Cool JavaScript Thumbnail viewer

http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/thumbnail.htm

OpenId

Check out this handy reference to enable openId on your website. OpenId enables your clients to login to your website using one single userid/password, taking the hassle out of remembering multiple userids/passwords for each site. If you are using yahoo, gmail, blogger, wordpress etc. you already have openid, you just need to enable them and use it.

Check this handy reference:
http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe

To learn more about openId, check out the official website at:
http://www.openid.net

Yahoo Maps API

You can use Yahoo Maps API to integrate Yahoo maps within your application, it's pretty simple and neat. You can even display traffic information. Check out:

https://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Google Chart API

Google Chart API allows you to dynamically create charts by just passing parameters to an URL, it's pretty amazing. You can generate all kinds of charts, check it out...

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html

Check this simple example:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World