[thelist] Re: Design/Development Goes Third World?

Please excuse my spelling error, I stand humbly corrected. The Czech
Republic is a proud and beautiful nation, and I apologise profusely to any
and all Czechs who may be on the list.

Lauran, I congratulate you on your success, which I guess is whatever brings
fulfilment to the individual in question. I know and am close to people who
get this mixed up with money, though.

One or two of the other posts on this apparently emotive thread were quite
lengthy too, but that's no excuse, so here's some varied bits and bobs:

<tip type="Australian Internet Access">
If you're based in Melbourne or Sydney (possibly Brisbane) you're lucky
enough to have the option of cable Internet from Telstra or Optus - may not
be industrial strength, but will certainly serve low volume sites and
applications at a fairly nifty pace. If you're in Adelaide, check out
Airnet - cheapest bandwidth around, using microwaves, beats price on
physical lines (ISDN, T1 etc) by an order of magnitude.
</tip>

<tip type="Linux Firewalling">
Adding the following to your ipchains array will block and log source routed
packets:-
ipchains -A input -i **YOUR_INTERNET_INTERFACE** -s
**YOUR_IP_ADDRESS** -l -j DENY
</tip>

<tip type="Object Oriented Programming">
Instead of adding public properties to your class, keep them private, and
use accessor methods. This means you can incorporate validation and
complementary processing at a later date whilst preserving your object's
interface. </tip>

<tip type="Browser Plugin Detection">
Checking for Netscape plugins can be done as follows:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if ! navigator.mimeTypes('**Insert plugin name here**') {
   alert('You're lacking the necessary plugin');}
//-->
</script>
A couple of popular plugin names to insert might be:
'application/pdf'   Adobe Acrobat Plugin
'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin'  RealAudio Player
</tip>

Tim Stewart
tstewart@gisca.adelaide.edu.au