Entries posted in April, 2007

Lame corporate proxies exposed

A few weeks ago I wrote about lame corporate proxy servers which mangle the HTTP request headers on behalf of their employees and customers and therefore cause them to be denied access to websites such as this one.  More »

Testing browser compatibility

Unless our clients can give us a compelling reason to do otherwise, this is our preferred methodology for testing browser compatibility with CSS: Test everything using the standards compliant Firefox browser. Validate the generated markup for accessibility. Repeat (1) and (2) until it looks and behaves as it should.  More »

More spam than legit email? You betcha!

Nate Anderson over at Ars Technica quotes an IDC report that predicts this is the year where spam will for the first time outnumber real email.  More »

Email subject lines are important

It’s not that I’m the only person in the world who is busy. We’re all busy. But far too often, I get an email which struggles to get my attention due to the subject line being either a single short word, too ambiguous, irrelevant or simply missing.  More »

MySQL database housekeeping

As part of regular ongoing database housekeeping, you should repair and optimise your MySQL tables on a regular basis.  More »

CSS selector order

Given the stylesheet declaration outlined below: .  More »

Social engineering victims or just a crap bank?

In the past few weeks, I’ve had three cold calls from three different people, all from blocked numbers, and all claiming to be from the National Australia Bank. While I never got to find out what they wanted, the conversations went loosely something like this: Me: Yeah.  More »