Tag Archives: web

delegating focus

So here’s the problem — you have a web based application that uses multiple forms, often on the same page. Any arbitrary combination or number of forms may appear on the same page at the same time. For example, you may have a small login box as well as a form to subscribe […]

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Setting up a web development environment

At any given time, there are about a dozen or so websites that I help develop in some form or another. The easiest way to work on a site is to maintain a copy of it on my local machine… nothing special there. However, what if you want to view the development version of the site? […]

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Open links in a new window

In the transistion to XHTML, many webmasters are shocked to discover that links with target=”_blank” (which would typically cause the link to open in a new window) prevent their page from validating. This is actually part of the behavior of the link, and (to use proper MVC seperation) therefore should be handled by a scripting language instead of […]

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Fix old broken URLs with mod_rewrite

“Despite the tons of examples and docs, mod_rewrite is voodoo. Damned cool voodoo, but still voodoo.” — Brian Moore

I’ve been using mod_rewrite for some time now for various things, but just recently I’ve really started diving into it in order to make cool URIs for skillet.com. The document root is presently a mess, […]

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