Archive for May, 2008

May 23rd, 2008

rude captchas

I had this funny kind of subversive idea. I think captchas should, randomly, every million times or so, say something really rude. Recaptcha could put together a couple of words like "Buck Futter" or "Suck Horses" or "Eat Miballs" Those random character captchas could inject a little "urawhore" or "i8urmom" I think it would ...
May 14th, 2008

Confessions of a Web Developer

This is a response to David Walsh's article from yesterday. Confessions of a 30-something web developer I still sometimes use <table>s as a layout tool to create columns, not as markup for tabular data. I took longer than most people to embrace CSS Absolute Positioning, because I didn't think it was well ...
May 13th, 2008

I’ve become a mod

we are the Mods, we are the Mods, we are we are we are the Mods No, I don't mean one of those. I've been crowned moderator of the XML forum at WebmasterWorld.com. Timbits are in the kitchen, go help yourself.
May 10th, 2008

htaccess rewriting for an “under construction” page.

Quick post. Sorry for the terseness. You're running a site on Apache, and while you're working on it you want the public to see an "under construction" page. The site is visible at a subdomain of your root host, (a typical scenario on Apache, with CPANEL and add-on domains) Your normal redirection ...