Verbose Logging

software development with some really amazing hair

20 Feb 10

06:00 PM MDT

Posted in Programming

Hijack AJAX requests like a terrorist

AJAX requests are a grand thing. They let you request things from your server without refreshing the page. Now, if you are trying to proxy a page, you can rewrite all the links in the page to point back through your proxy, but AJAX requests are another thing. Oh wait no they’re not! You can’t rewrite them when you proxy the page (by proxy, I mean you request my page with a URL param to another page, and I pull in that page, do some stuff, and ...


Read the full article

Comments

23 Sep 09

08:00 AM MDT

Posted in Software

Web Syntax Highlighters

Anybody who blogs about programming related topics needs to post code at times. When I was on Wordpress, I used the WP-CodeBox plugin. It worked quite well, but it was server side. This is fine if you intend to stay with your software forever, but when I moved off Wordpress to my custom solution, it became a problem. syntaxhighlighter syntaxhighlighter is a fairly popular solution, and for good reason. It is entirely javascript based so there ...


Read the full article

Comments

12 May 09

10:10 PM MDT

Posted in Design

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

I guess I should probably read this again, since my web development world is expanding immensely. 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make


Read the full article

Comments