Analog Point Solutions [Weblog]

I’ll let the screen cap speak for itself.

If you’re getting hit with digg/slashdot/reddit traffic, you can easily forward you site to Coral Cache to relieve the strain.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^192.168.1.2$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?digg.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?slashdot.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?slashdot.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?fark.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?somethingawful.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?engadget.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?boingboing.net [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www.)?del.icio.us
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.analogpoint.com.nyud.net/$1 [R,L]

There’s an interesting story on reddit today that talks about the rotund ninja star character that does cool stuff like reverse text direction. The reddit story links to this post, where an enlightened commenter points us to Wikipedia. I still feel all but enlightened. Can anyone comment on this?

I’d also like to know who that character shows up in reddit after the URL. Reddit is busted.

Here’s the test ‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮ Here’s the test. ҉

I appreciate the security enhancements that NoScript offers for Firefox, but with the tight update schedule (an update is pushed through often several times a week), the “update” page that is shown every time gets kind of tiresome. I did some quick googling, and couldn’t find a solution. I finally did find the answer buried in the NoScript FAQ. Just type about:config in the location bar, then type noscript.first in the filter to bring up the noscript.firstRunRedirection preference. Double-click it to change it to false. I hope it helps someone.

Q: I don’t like NoScript redirecting the browser on its welcome page every time I upgrade it. Is there any way to prevent this?
A: First time you install NoScript and every time you upgrade it to a newer major version, Firefox opens an additional tab containing the NoScript welcome page, where you can read the release notes, announcements and an explanation of the most important NoScript features. If you’re a power user and you feel you don’t need such heads up, you can disable this feature by opening about:config (just like it was a normal web address) and toggling off the noscript.firstRunRedirection preference.

There are still a few folks out there with old 800 x 600 pixel monitors, and if you want to take that into account when designing your website, you can use this handy trick to quickly see what any site looks like at different resolutions. Simply copy and paste the following Javascript into the Location bar of your browser and hit enter while viewing the site in question. The following bit will resize your browser to 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels high. You can change the width and height to any other resolution you’d like to test as well.

javascript: self.resizeTo(800, 600);


I’ve also created a quick bookmarklet. Take this link: 800×600, and drag it to your bookmarks/links toolbar and then click it to resize your window to 800 x 600 pixels.

Microsoft must really have some nerve to run this ad. Or it was a disgruntled employee trying to get back at his employer. I especially like the “Bulletproof reliability”.

I often have the problem that a client wants their customers to login on a secure site. The following .htaccess files are a simple way of accomplishing this by redirecting the the sercure version.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

If that doesn’t work, try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]

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There are many dollar sign functions out there, especially in the Javascript packages such as Prototype or MooFX. Peter-Paul Koch over at Quirksmode offers a cross-browser version of document.getElementById. Let’s combine all the goodness from each of these to make a souped-up $() dollar sign function that works in most browsers, and is not dependant on the DOM implementation of just one. It’s actually 2 functions, the $() and then a helper function.

function $() {
	var elements = new Array();
	for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
		var element = arguments[i];
		if (typeof element == 'string')
			element = getElementByIdCompat(element);
		if (arguments.length == 1)
			return element;
		elements.push(element);
	}
	return elements;
}
function getElementByIdCompat(name) {
	if (document.getElementById) {
		return document.getElementById(name);
	} else if (document.all) {
		return document.all[name];
	} else if (document.layers) {
		var theobj = {};
		theobj = document.layers[name];
		theobj.style = document.layers[name];
		return theobj;
	}
}

I’ve just written and released a Random Post plugin for Wordpress. Read more about it (and download it) on the download page. If you have any issues, suggestions, compaints or feature requests, post in the comments here. Test it out by clicking “random post” to the left.