November 4, 2011
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I’ll be at Cloud Expo next week for PagerDuty, and I wanted a list of companies there so I could see who were already customers. The closest thing I found was heavily HTML-ized, and I wanted plain text — in … Continue reading
October 27, 2011
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For a API example I’m working on for PagerDuty, I wanted something that would throw off errors regularly — not every single request but say one every 100 request. FEPServer is a quick and dirty project on App Engine that’ll … Continue reading
September 24, 2011
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As a web developer, one of your biggest fears should be your user database leaking for reasons ranging from hackers to someone left it on an FTP server and emailed a link through gmail. There’s no way to guarantee no-one … Continue reading
May 14, 2011
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Here’s the situation I’m in: a SharePoint deployment has a Slideshow Webpart that I want to show the content from elsehwere in the same page I can inject arbitrary javascript into the page, but the webpart is outside my control … Continue reading
April 28, 2011
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As part of my continuing penance for crimes real and imaginary, I’m doing some work in a jury-rigged environment where my Apache server needs to read and write to files off a Window Share. Doing everything that immediately popped into … Continue reading
April 19, 2011
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As part of my ongoing love affair with Google App Engine, I put together a tool to make an RSS feed out of some of the commenters on Hacker News. It’s at http://ultrasaur1.appspot.com (App Engine limits you to 10 applications, … Continue reading
March 31, 2011
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The backstory: a week or two ago, a newspaper based in New York started displaying a subscription dialogue over top of every article past 20 in a four week period. So I wrote 3 lines of javascript to hide that, … Continue reading
March 27, 2011
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I got tricked into liking some goofy video on Facebook, so I researched how to do it. The short version, hidden like buttons:
March 21, 2011
by dave
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August 10th Update: Yup, it’s broken. I’ll look into it as soon as I can.. It’s fixed, thanks Chris. I hadn’t realized that that NYTimes.com is blocking access after 20 articles/month for Canadians. Fortunately, though, they’re just putting some cruft … Continue reading
March 8, 2011
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For urlminder.appspot.com, I want to integrate the ownership information on a particular netblock that ARIN provides through their REST interface but it was returning HTML despite my clever guess that adding “?format=json” would change the format. It turns out that … Continue reading
