http://chris.weekly.org/blog My writings, photos, music and links Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:46:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a whirlwind first month-plus in my new job at Yottaa as I've had (and still have) so much to learn, but it's all very good. The people are fantastic, the technology is amazing, and I'm really fired up about the whole thing. Yottaa is all about web performance ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2011/03/23/blogging-for-real-over-at-yottaa Today was my last day at Upromise, after more than a decade working there in various roles. I wrote this to those I'm leaving behind, but I thought I'd share it with a broader audience: So long, everyone. Today is the end of my time at Upromise. It's been a long, strange ... http://chris.weekly.org/blog/2011/01/21/farewell-upromise 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