Tag: Web
Overlooked Resources: A Really GOOD Favicon Generator and Checker
There are a number of slightly conflicting favicon standards and each system works a slightly different way. Having done searches at various times for reliable generators, I never found a good one until I accidentally saw an excellent one linked from an SO answer. It handles all the formats, and can check which systems will […]
Using Unmanaged Django Models of Postgres Views in a Pre-existing Schema
This discussion covers the way Django 1.4 and Postgres 9.1 work as of mid 2012. If you have trouble with this or very similar code let me know and we can post your examples. Some of us like Python. Some of us are subjected to working with the Web, at least from time to time. […]
A Note on “Web Applications”
This is a subject worthy of a series of its own, but a short scolding will have to do for now… The “Web” is not an applications environment. At all. Web security is a joke. The whole idea is a joke. That’s like trying to have “newspaper security” because the whole point of HTTP is […]
A Note to a Web Retailer about JavaScript-or-Else Pages
I was cruising computer hardware retailers on the web today because I’ve got to make a few orders. Not so many that I need to pester the manufacturers directly, but a large order compared to what most folks buy online with a credit card. Specifically, I need to replace one motherboard and build six new […]
tl;dr Instructions for Drupal7 on rpm-based Systems
I threw a few sites up for folks in need the other day, one of them being myself (lots of folks’ businesses were wrecked during the tsunami two months ago). From doing that I realized the Drupal 7 documentation on rpm-based systems is a bit lacking (especially in Japanese). There are a few reasons for […]