Archive for the ‘software’ Category
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Just a quickie - I spotted a recurring comment on the web, usually shortly after someone expressed upset at some past event (I think the recent examples were outrage that Mitt Romney lost the US presidential election and / or that Obama won). Readers were apparently convinced that sufficient time ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
I made a multi-language page for Lolyco.com recently that switches between language based on the Accept-Language header sent by the User-Agent or by setting a session variable. There's an English version (the default), a Malay version and a Chinese version. I've had sites online before that are aggressively crawled by ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (skype) isn't associated with any program
I added some skype buttons to lolyco.com recently and seemed to hit a brick wall. While there seemed to be plenty of others running up against the same problem, I couldn't find a working ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
A quick note, because this stole several hours of my life. I knocked up a little web application with a trivial web form which was CSS, cookie and javascript-free in the expectation that it would work even on elderly mobile phones, so long as they had a browser. It was ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Originally posted at JavaProgrammingForums.com
Where can I store my application data?
I see a lot of people starting threads because they're struggling to persist (often) a little bit of data from one run of their Java application to the next. The offered solutions are often some kind of jiggery-pokery involving java.io.File. Not ...
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