onfocus

nice instructions for calculating proximity with SQL Server.

Ze Frank on creativity, etc. [via MeFi]

A single script for hosting your own single OpenID identity. Easy to set up with Apache. (IIS with ISAPI_rewrite, hard.) Supports the sreg extension.

Here's the "sreg stuff" for OpenID. Avatars aren't mentioned in the spec.

Avatar auto-discovery standard. Seems like a natural fit with OpenID. This should be added to the optional sreg stuff.

Cal on caching, chunking, compression, and integrating all of the above with a workflow.

Firefox Add-on lets you click and drag any form field to resize. (Unfortunately, it doesn't remember your field size preference.)

Open source remote desktop client for Windows RDC on Mac OS X. Handy if you need to manage Windows servers from Mac. I hear it's more stable than the official Microsoft RDC client for Macs.

PHP code for validating/filtering HTML input.

this site maintains a database of md5 hashes and the original text. This is a good starting point for decrypting these supposedly one-way hashes. If you're storing passwords as md5 hashes, don't forget the salt.

Tired: focus groups. Wired: immersion research. Ugh, when will people stop agreeing to be guinea pigs for marketers? If a marketer asks to live with you, say no. [via SOTD]

If you do any ColdFusion development (shut up!), you should check out this CF Textmate add-on. With this + Transmit, I prefer TextMate to HomeSite now for writing CF.

hooray! Click this link to set a cookie (with cookie technology) to disable those annoying Snap site previews that are popping up everywhere. [thanks torrez]

Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby are writing a book about designing REST web services.

handy guide for installing/integrating subversion with the Mac Finder, and the svnX GUI.

Nice! This new feature at Flickr shows you which cameras are most used across Flickr photos. (Featured Model is a sponsored placement.)

Flash upload progress thingy for web apps. [via mathowie]

a bunch of useful web services, and some wacky services like detecting nudity in a photo. (via waxy)