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Hey guys this is great, but you are still missing one key, critical need. I need for you to 302 redirect on what would otherwise be 404 errors to a URL of my choosing with the not found URL passed as a query parameter. Doing that could really open up what we could do with this static sites. Please...
Commented Dec 29, 2012 on Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3 at Amazon Web Services Blog
Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3
As you may already know, you can host your static website on Amazon S3, giving you the ability to sustain any conceivable level of traffic, at a very modest cost, without the need to set up, monitor, scale, or manage any web servers. With static hosting, you pay only for the storage and bandwid...
If the ideology of this post and most of the comments are to believed as gospel then the following book will certainly make the baby Jesus cry...
Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL
Commented Oct 23, 2010 on Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way at Coding Horror
Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way
Among programmers of any experience, it is generally regarded as A Bad Ideatm to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions. How bad of an idea? It apparently drove one Stack Overflow user to the brink of madness: You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. ...
I think Apple's Mac OS X UX designers could learn some incredibly valuable lessons by paying attention to Fitt's Law and this post. It's amazing ows such a commonly lauded OS can have so many little design flaws (ones that the "Cult of Apple" so willingly overlooks.)
Commented Mar 25, 2010 on The Opposite of Fitts' Law at Coding Horror
The Opposite of Fitts' Law
If you've ever wrangled a user interface, you've probably heard of Fitts' Law. It's pretty simple -- the larger an item is, and the closer it is to your cursor, the easier it is to click on. Kevin Hale put together a great visual summary of Fitts' Law, so rather than over-explain it, I'll refer...
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