Category Archives: Web

FastCGI issues in Lighttpd 1.4.13

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Sigurd

I ran into a set of problems recently with Lighttpd, which otherwise has been a marvellous piece of software. I use Lighty as a load-balancing proxy front-end for a set of backend request-handling servers written in Python, using the Pylons … Continue reading →

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AJAX debugging in Firefox

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Sigurd

Firebug solves the problem!

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Web Presentations

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sigurd

PowerPoint is a good product, but for the majority of presentations which are really quite simple it is overkill. Enter two webified candidates: S5 from Eric Meyer and AJAX-S(lides) from Robert Nyman.

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Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Sigurd

I just spotted Yahoo! has documented their design patterns! Read more on http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/. Note also that they have released their JavaScript library for user-interface design.

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HTTP header debugging

Posted on February 25, 2006 by Sigurd

For those that use Firefox (who doesn’t??), there’s a very useful tool called LiveHeaders. If you still use IE6, you can try Fiddler instead. If you’re brave you can install the pre-release IE7!

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