trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
Two things I’ve learned recently: Don’t use “icons” as a folder name in a website directory if you’re on Apache. Everything inside will 404. Apparently Apache aliases any directory named icons to its own icons directory by default with no .htaccess override allowed. This falls into the “but why did it work on my computer?” […]
The alpha version of a program I’m writing uploaded with whackadoodle file permissions, and after that experience and considering security for database connection information, I became curious about the minimum permission level for various kinds of files that would still allow the page to load and operate. I wrote a test page that has a […]
Miscellaneous little things that came up while I was working on the Flickety/MLA filterable gallery. The plurality are about jQuery’s AJAX command $.load().
I am not sure how someone with my background got to this point in life without learning regular expressions. I minored in computer science in college and took a few more classes in graduate school. I took a class on models of computation that included regular languages. I ended up in the area of mathematics […]
Joomla’s editor will strip out any HTML attributes it doesn’t know, which includes usemap. To add that or another unknown image attribute to the allowed list, open /plugins/editors/tinymce/tinymce.php and find if ($advimg) Add |usemap to the collection of |-separated attributes after $elements We also set the editor on Joomla to “extended” functionality, but I don’t […]
This spring I started a new venture: professional web development. It is currently far more learning than doing, and I anticipate that being the case for a while. For my own future reference and perhaps to help others I’m going to publicly log the bits and pieces of information I’ve had to track down to […]