Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
Snoopy is a PHP class that automates many common web browsing functions making it easier to fetch and navigate the web using PHP. It’s pretty handy. I found an interesting bug recently and diagnosed it this afternoon.
If you navigate to a 301 or 302 redirect in a subdirectory you can get [...]
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 Posted in Open Source, Web Development | 3 Comments »
One of the greatest things about Parallels is Coherence. The integration between the virtual machine and the host OS makes virtualized applications feel almost native. It’s a major win for users who don’t want to be locked into a mini-desktop.
I wonder if this concept could be brought to the web in [...]
Thursday, July 26th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 8 Comments »
Here’s my take on WWDC happenings for this year. These must be fun to be at. Especially in recent years with all the buzz about Apple. Yes this is a long post, but this is one of the big events of the year for developers and Mac users. Being a web [...]
Monday, June 11th, 2007 Posted in Apple, Google, Hardware, Mozilla, Web Development | 9 Comments »
In case you were wondering what Google Gears meant to the planned support for Offline Web Applications in Firefox 3.0, here’s an article you may be interested in. No definitive answers, but does mention the possibility of combining ideas.
Google Gears is pretty cool, but I’d be much more comfortable if Google submitted the API [...]
Friday, June 1st, 2007 Posted in Google, Mozilla, Web Development | 2 Comments »
Here’s a great read on Wikipedia’s Infrastructure. Two excellent sets of slides. A lot can be done with a LAMP stack. The common theme: caching and careful optimization. There are some really impressive stats in there.
Sunday, April 29th, 2007 Posted in Internet, Open Source, Programming, Web Development | No Comments »
So I downloaded and tested out Coda a little bit today. My initial impression is that I’m very impressed. It could be the new standard. A few like Alex King point out that it uses Safari as the default engine. I don’t think that’s so bad. Nothing stops you from [...]
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 Posted in Programming, Software, Web Development | No Comments »
As some have noticed, Windows Media doesn’t really work in Firefox when using Windows Vista. I’ve been to busy to try it just yet, but Microsoft has released a plugin. While disappointed at the lag, I’m thrilled to see support added. I wonder if they would be able to deploy with Microsoft [...]
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | No Comments »
I encountered this the other day. Firefox, Safari and Opera do what I expected and believe to be correct. I’m curious if anyone can explain this, or knows of a workaround that “doesn’t suck”. Take the following testcase:
HTML [Show Styled Code]:
< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML lang="en">
<head>
<title>IE Table Border [...]
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 9 Comments »
After reading about Myk’s use of Komodo, I decided to give it a try. I’ve yet to find the truly perfect IDE, so I’m always open to good alternatives.
For years I used BBEdit Lite, which was good enough for my somewhat basic needs, TextWrangler came and I moved over. On the Windows side [...]
Thursday, February 15th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Programming, Web Development | 3 Comments »
Jeremy Zawodny has a great post about common JavaScript usage where he concludes it’s harmful. Whether you agree or not, you have to admit it’s a great blog post. Here comes another long blog post.
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Around The Web, Internet, Mozilla, Web Development | 1 Comment »