Category Archives: web
Amazon Associates has a sense of humor
Why are you signing up for Amazon Associates?
Math is hard, Mint edition
The case of the dirty validator (why web filters suck)
Web developers, be warned! Your secret page-validating habit has been found out: This nonsense proudly brought to you by PurePages, providers of nonsense filters use by mmmuffins wifi at Toronto Union Station.
Fixing the mysterious “Element script is missing required attribute src” error
Suppose you're using the W3C validator to validate HTML5. Here's a sample document: <!doctype html> <html lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Hello</title> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> //<![CDATA[ var foo = 1; //]]> </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> Everything looks right, but you get this mysterious error: Line 6, Column 48: Element script is missing required …
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Tighten up those keys, team
MediaTemple is bad at security
Speed matters
Performance is huge. We think of it as a feature. Speed is the best feature your product can have. Last year Google introduced these performance enhancements to Picasa to make flipping through photos faster, and the usage more than doubled. When a site gets twice as fast, it often gets more than twice as much …
Why I don’t like Salsa labs, reason #1
They don’t support Safari or Chrome: Here’s what goes wrong:
Handling Rails errors: custom error pages, logging, notification
I wanted to improve error handling In my Rails applications. Specifically, I wanted three things: a custom error page that matched the site's design the errors to appear in the error log (production.log) email notification of server errors Note: these steps are for Rails 2.3.2–2.3.8. Other versions may require different instructions. Custom error page Normally, …
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