Greg Hewgill published a bunch Stack Overflow ebooks and StackExchange stats.
His readme explains a bit more on the books.
The blog he maintains makes up for some nice reading too.
Be sure to read the blog entry on the ebooks.
–jeroen
Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
The hilarious answer on Stack Overflow in why not to parse html with RegEx
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/09
Quite a while ago, user bobince wrote great answer on why not to parse html with RegEx.
Somehow people fail to recognize the brilliance of the answer, and try to simplify it into something like “don’t, use an XML or HTML parser in stead”.
bobince even posted some nice contra-examples that are impossible to parse in RegEx (heck, even most regular HTML and XML parsers have difficulties with them).
So: enjoy the beauty of the answer while it is still locked for editing.
–jeroen
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Posted in Development, HTML, RegEx, Software Development, Web Development, XML, XML/XSD | 2 Comments »
Formatted sourcecode in WordPress: uses SyntaxHighlighter 3.0; complete list of supported languages
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/18
In the past I wrote a few blog posts on posting sourcecode in WordPress.
Nick Hodges‘ last Flotsam and Jetsam blog post pointed me to the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript that is used by WordPress and many other engines/sites.
Their site contains an even more elaborate list of supported languages.
I had the basic list right in my last post, but was missing all the aliases (which often are easier than the longer proper names).
This is the new table adapted from their list: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, C#, CSS, Database Development, Delphi, Delphi for PHP, Development, HTML, HTML5, Java, PowerShell, RegEx, Scripting, SQL, VBS, Web Development, WordPress, XML, XML/XSD, XSD | 5 Comments »
WordPress Pages and Page Order
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/15
WordPress Page Order is a number increasing from left to right.
You can have holes in the number sequence.
So, back to the BASIC and FORRAN line numbering schemes (increment bij 100, 10, or you name it).
–jeroen
via: Pages « WordPress Codex.
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Dropbox – Why cant I establish a secure connection? –
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/16
Dropbox can show you this message when it can’t update (and the icon in the system tray gets a red cross 
):
can’t establish a secure connection
In my case, it was because I was using the Fiddler2 tool to debug some web-traphic.
Fiddler intercepts the WinInet API layer by putting itself as a proxy in it.
The great thing is that Fiddler2 can hook HTTPS traffic.
The not so cool thing is that I forgot that DropBox routes its’ HTTPS traphic through the WinInet API too :-)
Disabling Fiddler2 enabled DropBox to start connecting 
again and finally making a good connection 
.
As soon as DropBox has a good connection, you can restart Fiddler2 again to debug your internet traffic.
–jeroen
via: Dropbox – Why cant I establish a secure connection? –.
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RT: JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess) – DelphiFeeds.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/12
If you want JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook for free, then hurry :)
–jeroen
via: JQuery: Novice To Ninja ebook free for 24 hours (or less now, I guess) – DelphiFeeds.com.
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Hardening WordPress: when 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks are not enough
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/07
Last week, Jean-Baptiste Jung started a bit of a stir when posting on Smashing Magazine about 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks.
He totally missed the official Hardening WordPress page and generated a lot of comment traffic.
All of his tweaks were rebutted by commenter Vid Luther (Mobile Commerce and Technology Evangelist and ZippyKid owner) in a separate How to Secure a WordPress Site.
This once again shows that for serious work you really need to know what you are doing.
If you don’t, then leave the work to people who do: Vid is one of those guys.
–jeroen
via: 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks – Smashing Magazine.
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Web 2.0 apps throwing away your user input #fail
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/30
It seems quite a few “web 2.0” apps too have the same glitch: they throw away user input when the first page finishes loading.
This is especially noticeable on slow connections (UMTS, DSL that is a long distance from the phone company, EDGE, GPRS, etc): the connection speeds that a lot of developers don’t seem to test on.
So, the sequence of events goes like this:
- The data entry fields (in this case, from and to location) become visible
- You put the focus on the from field
- You type the from address (I do blind typing)
- You press the tab key to go to the to field (more and more Web 2.0 apps get their tab order right nowadays)
- You type the to address
- You wait until the “GO” button becomes visible
- The Web 2.0 app keeps loading
- It erases the “from” and “to” fields that you just typed
Or more general:
when you start typing in a Web 2.0 app which is still loading, almost all the times you loose your input.
And since there is usually no visual clue when the Web 2.0 app has finished loading, you have to wait until you feel comfortable not loosing your input.
Bad!
Examples that get this wrong:
- routes.tomtom.com (throws away all your input)
- wordpress login (throws away your username)
Please add your own in the comments…
–jeroen
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Google Calendar – printing multiple months or weeks to PDF – URL parameter tips and tricks
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/28
Recently, I had to print multiple months or weeks from within Google Calendar.
The default UI does not allow that, but it is in fact pretty easy to do.
These are the steps to get PDF versions of a whole year.
Edit 20100714: thanks to Kilian Croese, I could explain a few more parameters, and cut out the steps for Fiddler, so it now works with most browsers on most platforms.
All text that is not relevant any more is marked deleted, so you can still read it if you want to use Fiddler.
It works from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer on Windows (FireFox works if you install FiddlerHook) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Development, Fiddler, Google, Google Apps, GoogleCalendar, ISO 8601, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | 19 Comments »
Adding wordpress.com blog as connected site in Google Buzz (thanks Pēteris!)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/26
Pēteris wrote about Adding wordpress.com blog as connected site in Google Buzz.
Thanks – that saved me a lot of time!
–jeroen
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