Archive for September, 2008
Bug with Adobe Flash on Mac when uploading files to a redirected URL
Just spent almost the entire day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong when trying out many different flash multi-file uploading widgets. All of them would give me a 302 redirect http error, even when testing locally.
So after much searching and reading and studying… and finally testing this on my Windows machine (which [...]
Launched a site today!
I’ve been developing a site this weekend and decided to go ahead and go live with yipURL.com with basic functionality. It’s yet another URL minimizer, but I do have unique things in the works for it! Try it out and give me your feedback!
Now off to get some sleeeep!
Redirect all but used subdomains to primary domain using mod_rewrite and CodeIgniter
I was recently playing with mod_rewrite and wanting a couple of subdomains to act as subdomains, but all others to redirect back to my site without the leading “www”. For example:
www.example.com => example.com
bad.example.com => example.com
api.example.com => api.example.com
Not being a regular expression or mod_rewrite expert (or any resemblance of such), this was a bit of a [...]
Serving a large file through PHP without hitting memory_limit
Ran into a little problem hitting the memory limit for PHP when serving 100MB+ files through a script like:
$file = @fopen($filename,”r”);
if ($file)
{
while(!feof($file))
{
print(fread($file, 1024*4));
flush();
[...]
Mozilla Labs Ubiquity
Now this looks cool! Ubiquity from Mozilla is looking to connect “the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily”.
Check it out!
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.