http://chris.weekly.org/blog My writings, photos, music and links Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:11:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been posting on twitter and ignoring my blog for some time now. In the meantime Disqus-generated comment spam has been annoying me. So, I'm disabling comments for now. If and when I start to really manage this blog properly I'll probably turn them back on. Till then I'm easy ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/10/28/comments-disabled-find-me-on-twitter A useful web-tier debugging technique is to take a snapshot of a given page (i.e., saving the HTML and Javascript and CSS and images locally, serving them up w/ your local webserver) as this facilitates very rapid test and iterate cycles. However, properly saving the full set of files is ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/10/21/firefox-add-on-recommendation-for-save-complete-page-as This happens to me all the time; I accidentally enter the wrong username into a form field, and then every time I come back to that site my browser suggests this wrong value in the autocomplete dropdown list. To delete a given entry from the autocomplete dropdown, simply: - Type in ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/10/21/how-to-remove-bad-autocomplete-options-from-forms-in-ff-and-ie I share a monitor between a Mac Pro tower and a Dell PC laptop, using a KVM switch. A couple days ago, toggling to the Mac resulted in a totally blank screen. Thinking it was a problem w/ the KVM switch itself (as I'd run into this trouble w/ a ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/05/29/mac-problem-with-no-monitor-display-reset-pram This will only interest web developers. Using Firefox 3.0.10 on XP, with the firebug console open, I kept noticing seemingly arbitrary errors like this: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIRequest.name]" nsresult: "0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js :: anonymous :: line 282" data: no] file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js Line 282 I finally ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/05/11/firefox-and-ns_error_not_implemented Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee for dreaming up the web 20 years ago. I've been making a living on it for more than half of its existence so I've got a lot to thank him for. =) cnet.com article http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/03/13/happy-20th-birthday-web Hi It's more convenient for me to post to twitter sometimes, and though I may integrate those posts into this website at some point, for now there's quite a bit that doesn't make it here. So, if you have any interest in twitter and/or my random writings on technology, culture, interesting ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/03/13/follow-me-on-twitter This is really awesome; this guy takes random youtube videos and mixes them -- both the audio and video -- to make something infinitely better: http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/03/12/thru-you-youtube-remixed I've been helping Mike Rivard -- amazing bass player and composer and leader of the Cambridge-based band "Club d'Elf" -- turn his emails into a blog proper. It's live at http://blog.clubdelf.com/ and Mike's begun posting there. Great stuff, check it out! http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/03/12/check-out-club-delfs-new-blog Here are just a few of the things I've done to my Firefox client to make it more useful. Install Add-ons: Firebug Yslow LiveHTTPHeaders ieTab Clear cache button Web developer Configure UI: View > Add Ons > LiveHTTPHeaders > Options > Config > 'Add ... to sidebar' checkbox View > Sidebar > LiveHTTPHeaders View > Toolbars > Customize: drag icons to ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2009/03/10/firefox-add-ons-for-web-developers