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Internet Explorer, HTTPS and file downloads: “The file could not be written to the cache” 17 Aug 2011 | 10:53 pm
[Please see update below for a proper fix] Today I received an email from a client that had just moved their site over to SSL (i.e. HTTPS) — they were no longer able to download files in Internet Exp...
Using .htaccess to suspend an entire site while still working on it 4 Mar 2011 | 12:02 am
Sometimes, when you’re working on a web site, you need to make some changes that could cause problems if there is someone else using the site at the time. The obvious solution is to suspend the site —...
FireQuery: a Firebug add-on for jQuery 4 Feb 2011 | 10:49 pm
If you work with jQuery, then I don’t think I need to explain why a plugin that shows you any jQuery-related properties of a DOM element would be useful — so go on and get it here. Of course you’ll ne...
Generating PDFs in PHP 3 Dec 2010 | 01:25 am
For several recent projects I’ve been called upon to produce output in PDF format. For a PHP coder the difficulty lies not in the task itself, but in choosing which of the numerous PDF generation libr...
On redirects, spiders and security 14 Jul 2010 | 02:07 am
Recently I’ve been working with an agency that has its own simple PHP web site framework. During the course of working with them, a problem arose: pages were disappearing, apparently without human inv...
Web fonts: the time has come 28 May 2010 | 08:48 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I spotted a post on Slashdot about a company – fonts.com – that was opening up its font library for use by web developers. I thought it was a pretty neat idea: it uses the new-...
PayPal Error: Sorry, an Error Occurred After You Clicked the Last Link 11 Mar 2010 | 04:09 am
I’m just coming to the end of a project that required checkout via PayPal. The system is to be hosted in an iframe embedded in a third party site’s page, but when redirecting to PayPal the iframe ‘pop...
CSS: Removing that dotted line around a link 4 Dec 2009 | 10:44 pm
Just a quick note to myself… I’m working on a navigation system that uses CSS image replacement. To hide the text, CSS shifts it out of view by using the text-indent property and a big negative value...
Converting latitude and longitude coordinates to map x and y values 19 May 2009 | 08:37 pm
I’m currently working on a project to convert an existing Flash map, which uses location data that’s been manually entered and maintained, to use data that comes from a database and uses latitude and ...
Installing Ubuntu on Eee PC 1000 27 Apr 2009 | 08:39 pm
I decided the other day that I wanted to try to install Ubuntu on my Eee PC 1000. I’d already replaced the default Xandros Linux that comes pre-installed with Windows XP (because my other half needed ...
