Today we started hacking some Apache rewrite rules to make some URLs a little more friendly. All of the URLs we are rewriting are entry points for our application, which in the WO world means direct actions. All of them contain queries parts. These are the arguments in a URL, like http://domain.com/something?arg=value&anotherArg=anotherValue. Well, everything was […]
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There are not many things I miss from Mac OS 9. But there’s one that was really useful: the ability to test a hard drive surface. OS 9 disk formatter (I don’t even recall it’s name) had a “Test Disk” option that would perform a surface scan of the selected hard drive. That was awsome
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(nice title, isn’t it?) 😉 Although AJAX techniques are now widespread among the web-developers community, there’s still something that can’t be done using pure AJAX techiques (whatever that means): file uploads. There’s no way to grab a file using JavaScript and send it to the server using an asynchronous request. I guess the main reason
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I finally moved to an Intel machine. Despite the dramatic speed improvement in everything Java-related, namely Eclipse, there’s another big advantage: being able to run IE on Windows using a virtual machine. Unfortunately, that’s something every web developer must do to ensure his or her application will work on the most used (and crappy) browser
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