HTTP Headers, Web Apps and Mobile Safari

Date Arrow  October 30, 2009

I found today that Mobile Safari, the browser bundled with the iPhone, has a very strange and annoying behaviour when it comes to web apps. In fact, when you “install” web applications with the <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> tag in the “Home Screen”, the USER_AGENT header sent to the server is different to the [...]

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Basic vs. Digest

Date Arrow  July 7, 2008

In the series of highly boring posts ;) here’s another one; in this case, a simple explanation of two different authentication protocols available in the HTTP standard.

HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol
This is the simplest HTTP Authentication protocol available:

The browser sends a request to a protected resource: GET /index.html
The server looks for the “Authenticated” header [...]

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Pourquoi pas?

Date Arrow  May 21, 2008

Pourquoi ne peut-on pas avoir des conférences comme celle-ci, avec des mini-events comme celui-ci en parallèle en Romandie? Ou encore comme celle-ci? Ou bien comme cette autre! Ou celle-là!
Pourquoi pas? Est-ce que le marché est trop petit? Y a-t-il un manque d’intérêt général? Je pense que le problème est important, et qu’une grande partie de [...]

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Symfony con MAMP

Date Arrow  May 14, 2008

estuve jugando un rato con symfony y MAMP, y esta bastante bueno, aunque hay un par de cosas que no me gustaron. aqui van unos comentarios que te podran ser utiles.
me puse a leer las instrucciones de instalacion, y despues encontre el tutorial, de donde saco gran parte de lo que escribire en este articulo.
ahi dice [...]

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Cool Color Tools

Date Arrow  January 16, 2008

Just a few links to work with color; you might know them all, or not, but if you have more, don’t hesitate to post them in the comments!

Name that Color
Color Palette Generator
Adobe Kuler
COLOURlovers
Hex Color Picker for Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (this is bundled with Leopard by default)

 
Finally, a classic – even if it [...]

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A Simple Recipe for Podcast Success

Date Arrow  November 10, 2007

I am subscribed to quite a few podcasts and screencasts here and there. And I’ve come up with a very basic (albeit limited and you could even say irrational) way of determining which to keep listening and which to throw away immediately:
The quality of the material… and the voice of the speaker.
I’m not Pavarotti nor [...]

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Simultaneously

Date Arrow  October 31, 2007

Incredible. I just came accross this blog called “One Month App”. The guys from Clear Function have been working on Pulse, a web-based application, more or less at the same time as I was working on Parking Friend (from the end of September to mid-October)! Their design is nicer than mine, though :)
It [...]

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