Archive for the ‘Spinneret’ Category

Wossis? Flashcards, that’s what!

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="241" caption="Wossis? Flashcards!"][/caption] I turned the flashcard page I wrote at poditronic.com a while ago into a site that allows its users to add their own sets of flashcards. It's at http://wossis.com/ if you'd like to see it. It's still very early days, but things are now stable ...

Correct response for wrong Host: field in HTTP request header

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Still frantically trying to get Spinneret into shape for a first open-source release. I'm also working on a new project that I'm quite excited about, which is providing plenty of examples of where Spinneret could be improved! The new project is hosted on a VPS at VPSLink (recommended, so far!). Today's ...

Chinese character flash cards

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_460" align="alignright" width="256" caption="What's this?"][/caption] Emily (my 3 year-old daughter) has a few sets of Chinese character flash cards from her kindergarten. We were using them one night recently when I thought they'd make a good test page for Spinneret. I've been wondering about javascript (never used it before) and ...

Clues to the TBH ‘black blog’ author

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_439" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hex dump of image file"][/caption] I was reading Lim Kit Siang's blog recently and saw the article about the Teoh Beng Hock 'black blog'. LKS is calling it a 'black blog' because it makes some serious allegations about wrong-doing in Selangor. The blog author has posted some ...

File contents hex dump at poditronic.com

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_439" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hex dump of image file"][/caption] Just added a hex dump page at poditronic.com - very similar code to the "View Server HTTP headers" page, but could be useful to some. The page currently loads just the first 512 bytes of the content at some URL, and present ...