Web Development
Find the right IIS process with IISAPP
Windows Server has a nice little CScript application called IISAPP that makes it nice and easy to differentiate w3wp.exe processes that are running. By calling this script in the command line you can get an output that shows the process id and the app pool. So if, by chance, you need to attach to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Wisdom of Debugging
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Internet Explorer 8 Passes ACID2 Test
Internet Explorer 8 is supposed to be even more standards compliant than IE7 and the IE development team just passed the ACID2 test. Pretty cool.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx
There’s a nice video interview with two of the dev team here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=367207
My Retro Flash Site from 2003
I was checking out some of my old work the other day and found my old flash site I did in 2003. For being so old it’s still kind of cool. I posted it here: dirq.net/retro. It was last updated almost exactly 4 years ago on 8/20/2007.
I had a nice nostalgic walk around [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PHP on XP Pro (IIS 5.1)
So it took me a while but I finally installed PHP on my XP Pro machine.
Follow the below post but omit step 4a to install PHP 5.2.1 on Windows XP Pro IIS 5.1:
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Salary Resources on the Web
There is a nice article from the New York Times called Using the Web to Get the Boss to Pay More that will give you a good summary for salary research on the web. The article gives some good background information on where a lot of the top job sites get their salary information from. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sued for Website Inaccessibility
There is a lawsuit making it’s way through federal court in California targeting Target for website inaccessibility. The National Federation for the Blind is suing Target Stores for not having alt-text available on their images on the grounds that Target’s site is not accessible to blind users. Target had argued only its physical [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )IE7 Beta 3 CSS Support Still Lacking
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3’s CSS support has been locked down and will only be a stepping stone towards being actually CSS compliant. I really didn’t believe that they’d have a lot of fixes for their poor rendering of CSS but I was really hoping that they would. They have given allusions in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )AOL Loves Privacy
On Monday a worker bee at AOL released data on 658,000 peoples search queries within a research section of their site. This is just one reason I don’t use AOL’s search.
Although the data doesn’t show screen names it still marks queries to a particular user via a random ID. Unfortunately, even with my [...]
De-Motivate
Here is a nice concise list of the top 10 ways to de-motivate creative workers. It’s funny yet painful.
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