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 [...]
HTTP Headers, Web Apps and Mobile Safari
October
30,
2009
How to? · iPhone
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Basic vs. Digest
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 [...]
How to? · Papers · Technology
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Pourquoi pas?
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 [...]
Opinion · Technology
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Symfony con MAMP
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 [...]
Code · Open Source · Technology
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Cool Color Tools
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 [...]
A Simple Recipe for Podcast Success
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 [...]
Opinion · Ruby on Rails
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Simultaneously
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 [...]