Category Archives: Web Development

Unable to Register .CN Domains

Our co-op registers domain names for others. Like most registrars, we now cannot register Chinese (.cn) domains. There’s a bit of background discussion on WebmasterWorld. While it’s always disappointing to offer fewer services, I don’t think we’ve ever registered a … Continue reading

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Moved Home

My personal site’s copy of this blog and some of my other sites moved servers last week. A few differences in Apache configuration between 1.3 on the old server and 2.2 on the new server tripped me up and it … Continue reading

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Similarities between the co-op and Google

This is a bit of a silly note for a Saturday while I’m currently working on translating the co-op’s web pages into Esperanto. The old site was translated, but the new site launched as English-only. I’d like to have other … Continue reading

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Widgets, W3C and Wallies

Widgets are little web applications run on the client side. They’re not particularly new and there are a lot of them about, but there’s little consistency between them, so they’re a bit of a pain to use in practice still. … Continue reading

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Cookies: Ask Me Every Time – by law?

SME Web – Internet advertisers: New cookie laws approved: reports that: “internet users will have to provide consent to cookies being stored on their computers. This could result in them being bombarded with pop-ups seeking their permission to accept the … Continue reading

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A browser tip I should have known before…

I knew that / (slash) activated the Quick Find in Firefox and its close relations, but I didn’t know that ‘ (apostrophe) activated a Quick Find (in links). That’s quite helpful when jumping through web admin interfaces where I know … Continue reading

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PHP mime_content_type Alternatives In Debian 5.0

We were called in to help someone with a failing file upload feature on a PHP website. It turned out that we’d recently upgraded their server to debian 5.0 and the mime_content_type() PHP function was no longer available. This isn’t … Continue reading

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Python 3 and Backwards Compatibility?

A while ago, we had a big discussion in the software.coop about what programming language we should prefer when we have a completely free choice. Ultimately, while all the workers have our own favourites (like my Lisp and Perl bias), … Continue reading

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Oh no! Ex-MP Richard Allan hired to make the EU more Facebook-friendly

As you may remember from my Google-WEF rant a few years ago, I strongly believe that governments should regulate private corporations and not the other way round. It is part of our job as business owners to try to stay … Continue reading

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Results of Which Social Bookmarking?

I asked Which Social Bookmarking? almost a month ago. I was looking for a service which:- is run on free software provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK) provides all my bookmarks for download/backup … Continue reading

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