http://blog.analogpoint.com Rants on Php, MySQL, JS, Ajax, Web Standards and anything else I find interesting Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:40:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll let the screen cap speak for itself. http://blog.analogpoint.com/ebay-is-a-couple-of-years-late/ 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/forward-your-site-to-coral-cache/ 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 ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/the-character-that-broke-reddit/ 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. ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/stop-noscript-from-opening-the-updatewelcome-page-every-time-its-updated/ 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 ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/the-easiest-way-to-check-your-site-at-different-screen-resolutions/ 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". http://blog.analogpoint.com/microsoft-makes-fun-of-itself/ 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} ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/redirect-to-the-https-version-of-a-page/ c++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */ -- Unknown http://blog.analogpoint.com/c-quote/ 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 ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/the-dollar-sign-function/ 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 ... http://blog.analogpoint.com/random-post-wordpress-plugin/