January 3, 2009
Once upon a time there was a small web hosting company called Lagomorphics LLC. They ran a blogging service called JournalSpace. It was hosted on Mac OS X servers. By way of backup, they had a second hard drive mirroring their main database.
At some point, they caught their IT guy stealing from the company. They [...]
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January 1, 2009
Looks like it’s finally possible to use Google Docs as a word processor. Until very recently, it was pretty much unusable for any serious editing task because there was no way to make linebreaks and paragraph breaks appear different.
However, you can now edit the CSS of your document, which means you can add
p { margin-top: [...]
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December 16, 2008
I just noticed this:
A number of things are wrong here. The first is that Adobe Updater apparently didn’t realize that Adobe Help Viewer 1.1 could replace Adobe Help Viewer 1.0. Why do I assume that it can? Because if you open the package for an Adobe application and root around, you’ll find that the help [...]
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December 1, 2008
Australian crime database based on Microsoft products is so awful that police would rather release the criminals.
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November 11, 2008
What is the shortest regular expression that matches only itself, including the / delimiters?
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November 4, 2008
Getting your SSL code to work on both Sun and IBM JVMs.
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November 3, 2008
What are the mysterious unnamed packages on a RedHat Enterprise Linux system?
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October 26, 2008
RFC 3986 is in error regarding HTTP query parameters. Avoid using HTTP POST with body data to URLs including query parameters.
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October 2, 2008
The best way to lay out forms on the web.
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September 19, 2008
Nobody likes the new Facebook. Here’s why.
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