Prevent site from getting loaded on iframe

What if somebody loads your obfuscated fancy javascript or AJAX methods to drive traffic to their site utilising your bandwidth? Here is a simple solution in javascript.

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    if (window.top !== window.self) {
        document.write = "";
        window.top.location = window.self.location;
        setTimeout(function () {
            document.body.innerHTML = '';
        }, 1);
        window.self.onload = function (evt) {
            document.body.innerHTML = '';
        }; 
    }
//]]>
</script>

Paste that javascript snippet inside your head tag of your html.
Twitter(Dustin Diaz) uses that at the Twitter Profile Widget Page. :(
I found it the hard way (lol). Way to go Dustin!
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HTML Encode Decode in Javascript/jQuery

Last day, I had a resolute and unyielding need to HTML Decode a string.
I saw many solutions but was not satisfied.
Then I found the StackOverFlow reference which is the most optimal solution I have seen till date. Just pasting it here for easy reference.

function htmlEncode(value){ 
  return $('<div/>').text(value).html(); 
} 

function htmlDecode(value){ 
  return $('<div/>').html(value).text(); 
}

Did I say jQuery? I sure did say optimal :P
Happy Coding!

Dependency: jQuery
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Different ways to create a DataTable and set Schema

Was hanging out StackOverflow and I saw Marc Gravell initializing the DataTable in a simpler and cleaner way. Here goes

DataTable dataTable = new DataTable
{
    Columns = {
        {"ID", typeof(int)},
        {"Name", typeof(string)},
        "Location"
    },
    TableName="NaveenTest"
};
dataTable.Rows.Add(1, "Naveen", "Coder");

Please note that if you don't specify the type it will automatically be converted to string. See how "Location" is initialised

And my old method

DataTable dtOld = new DataTable("NaveenTest");
dtOld.Columns.Add("MyID", typeof(int));
dtOld.Columns.Add("Name");
dtOld.Columns.Add("Location");
DataRow drOld = new DataRow();
drOld[0] = 1;
drOld[1] = "Naveen";
drOld[2] = "Coder";
dtOld.Rows.Add(drOld);

Aaarghhh...

A lot cleaner!
What do you say?
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