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The following is a list of all entries from the Technical category.
An Approach to Exception Handling
Filed in Technical, 5th October, 2008, 18:42 CET[In response to this post, also posted here, asking about guidelines different developers have come up with.... I actually started a response on the site, then realized I was typing an entire essay into a little comment box.]
Guideline #1: Never discard exception information.
You might either wrap the exception and throw the wrapper, or log it [...]
Support Firefox, through Internet Explorer
Filed in Technical, 2nd October, 2008, 1:35 CETIf you’re a web developer (or if you have to use websites that are still IE-only) you might spend time browsing in both Firefox and IE.
You may also have noticed that when you use the toolbar search box in either one, the browser tacks a few extra parameters onto the Google search URL… so they [...]
Avoiding getting flashed by Dilbert
Filed in Technical, 25th April, 2008, 0:34 CETI’ve been reading the Dilbert comics online for years, always from the archive page – the home page was just overwhelmingly cluttered by ads, and it required extra clicks to see previous comics when I’d missed a few days.
So when the central Dilbert site switched to a super Flash-heavy format for their homepage (including the [...]
Disconnected ShareThis plugin for Wordpress
Filed in Technical, 17th February, 2008, 1:41 CETI see the ShareThis plugin on tons of Wordpress blogs — and with reason, because the presentation is quite nice. You don’t have to take up a chunk of the screen listing all of the different social networks (and they keep multiplying…) or offering the option to email this post to a friend; instead [...]
404 pages on 1&1 webhosting: complaint and solution
Filed in Technical, 16th February, 2008, 1:03 CETI had an unpleasant surprise today when I was testing a new site I’m setting up using 1&1 web hosting… I mistyped the URL, and lo and behold, instead of showing any kind of useful error page for the 404, the server neatly redirected my browser to a completely different URL, “domparking.php” at the “sedoparking.com” [...]
The data (u|dys)topia
Filed in General, Technical, 9th February, 2008, 23:54 CETTake one simple conversation with a neighbor, add a few late night walks in the dark, and it develops into a complete utopian/dystopian vision of the not-so-distant future.
First, the conversation: we were talking about everyday marital strife, and she mentioned how her husband wants to redo the roof himself — it’s a relatively straightforward project, [...]
Database Naming: A response
Filed in Technical, 25th January, 2008, 18:31 CET[Note to non-technical types: skip this one. It contains no entertainment value whatsoever.]
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