Category Archives: web

Google Chrome: Two Things I Like

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Josh Peters

Yesterday Google’s browser Chrome hit the ‘net (at least, the Windows, x86-based ‘net). Initially I’m very happy with it. The UI is a joy to use. It accomplishes everything that the IE team seemed to try with IE7, only without … Continue reading →

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13949712720901ForOSX

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Josh Peters

Count me in! OSX needs better Java support. First class citizenship for everyone! see here for details

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Better Living Through URL Rewriting

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Josh Peters

I’ve mentioned URL Rewriting twice before (here and here if you’re curious). URL Rewriting is a great technology that makes Cool URIs much easier to obtain and manage.  Essentially you run a filter on your web server that listens to … Continue reading →

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Better Form Validation Through Clever Javascript

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Josh Peters

Client-side form validation is a pretty regular thing nowadays.  Every site you visit most likely does things slightly differently from adding a red star to providing a cryptic summary box at the top of the screen to simply sending the … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer’s Version Kerfuffle

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Josh Peters

Via A List Apart, Microsoft made an announcement regarding Internet Explorer 8′s new meta element support.  In a nutshell, a properly defined meta element in the document’s head now tells IE (or any browser foolish enough to implement it) to … Continue reading →

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House Meets Google

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Josh Peters

One of my favorite televisions shows is House. One of its running gags involves the auto-immune disease Lupus (which my grandmother has). Well, Google has brought back its Zeitgeist for 2007 and guess what: Lupus is a frequently asked question. … Continue reading →

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Lazyweb Request

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Josh Peters

Dear Internet, I would like a way to use a TCP service through my user account. I don’t wanna bind to localhost:nnnn I want localUser:nnnn that is only accessible by the user that opened the port. Thank you. Josh Peters

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Co.mments rocks!

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Josh Peters

Last week I discovered a great site dedicated to keeping track of your comments, appropriately named co.mments. It allows you to track a given page and co.mments will periodically re-fetch the page and compare it to the previous version. It … Continue reading →

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Automated Reputation Discernment

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Josh Peters

Spencer Critchley proposes a method for tracking the reputation of a politician over at O’Reilly’s blogs. This could very well be called the Age of Recursion. Starting with Google’s original PageRank idea the power of applied recursion is really starting … Continue reading →

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I wish CSS was smarter…

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Josh Peters

There’s a wonderful technology for XML called XPath. XML as you may know is a structured markup language that represents a document as a tree. XPath allows you to find parts of that tree (called nodes, actually there are several … Continue reading →

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