A swag of ways to block the DiggBar have been posted up at Daring Fireball over the last couple of days, and there are “fixes” for most of the widely used blog CMSs. There’s also some PHP you can add directly to your files should you feel so inclined.
But unlike normal URL shortening services, when [...]
Plugins and code to block the Diggbar
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 13 April, 2009 to the comment subset
PHP’s white screen of death
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 28 July, 2008 to the technology subset
An explanation of the so-called “white screen of death”, something I see a bit of while logged in to Facebook, to name one example. Especially common to websites, or applications, that are PHP powered… which, hmm, includes disassociated.
A web application powered by the scripting language PHP will display an empty white page in the browser [...]
Meanwhile at the backend of the Microsoft Yahoo! merger
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 February, 2008 to the technology subset
John Gruber takes a look at some of the technical issues that the possible Microsoft Yahoo! merger could present.
Engineering-wise, it’s interesting. Yahoo’s stuff is almost all written in PHP, and runs on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux servers. I don’t think Microsoft has ever bought – and maintained – a significant software product that wasn’t [...]
Links for 18 October 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset
Web Directions North is on from 30 to 31 January 2008 in Vancouver, Canada, and Jeffrey Zeldman will deliver the opening key note speech. The WD team have also compiled an executive summary of the conference, should your boss need to be “convinced” your attendance is worthwhile!
Why Accessibility? Because It’s Our Job! “We should make [...]
