How long has it been since I’ve written CSS? Quite the stroll down memory lane today as I prettified some XSL transformed XML reports. Relatedly, I’d forgotten just how short browser implementation has come on the promise of serving XML and letting the client render things prettily. I’m all for stopping XSS attacks but good…
Awesome is the pregnant Possum.
Seems simple in that “WTF is up with me not doing that until now” kind of way but setting up all of your web content in SVN and then using svn export to deploy to your production server just plain rocks. Version control–which is desirable on its face The model enforces backing up–your deployment is…
Looks like the migration is mostly complete. A little less painful than anticipated all things considered. Not a lot of planning up front and it looks like the main pieces came across with only minor hair pulling. I can’t believe 10 years of accumulated clutter on $OLD_WEB_HOST was this easy to move. Even if things…
Brighton Cambridge Chelsea Essex Geneva Hamburg Holland Holstein Lisbon Luxemburg Macedonia Madrid Manchester Marathon Marne Moravia Moscow Norway Oxford Pella Pomeroy Portsmouth Protivin Rhodes Rome Sheffield Stratford Volga Waterloo Westphalia Now with added map So…what am I missing?
You want a dynamic path to your post-install call to an executable. You can do this based on the info I found here. I loves me some StackOverflow.
Because I can never remember how to sensibly check for arguments in a batch file: validating bat arguments
Listening to various BBC podcasts brought this to my attention a while back and I’ve been following the phone hacking scandal since. Looks like News International might be better named Scandal International. Murdoch is hiding one of his Sith Lords at The Wall Street Journal. Joy!
I know it’s a topic I come back to now and again, but only because it is one of the most useful “technologies” to come out of my WorldWideWeb experience. The ability to essentially bookmark something of interest and then have that thing tell you when something happens to it is a remarkable way to…
While composing a detailed “you broke the build and here’s how, but you’re not here so you’ll see this in the morning and have to answer the gnashing and wailing from the angry horde of testers” email, I was chatted up by hotandhorny13. I did not blur the URL to the probable malware site linked.…