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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
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
Posted in Web Development
Tagged apache, configuration, greener, migration, move, power, server
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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
Posted in Web Development
Tagged esperanto, i18n, internationalisation, localisation, translation, web
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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
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
Posted in Web Development
Tagged content, file, fileinfo, finfo_file, mime, mime_content_type, php, type, uploads
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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
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
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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Tagged bookmarks, connotea, free software, magnolia, rubric, social bookmarking
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