Month: October 2013
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Working around the IE9/IE8 XDR Post bug
When creating a REST-API for a client we ran across this really weird problem. IE8/IE9 can’t make XMLHttpRequest to other domains via CORS. Microsoft invented their own solution for this problem, called XDR. The problem with XDR is that it doesn’t send a Content-type when doing POST requests, defaulting this value to “text/plain” instead. PHP…
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Preventing overlapping cron jobs
From time to time, we’re asked to fix broken sites built by other agencies. This can be extremely tricky, but if it’s technologies we know and love (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Memcached, WordPress, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Slim, etc) we usually say yes. If a site keeps falling every n hours/days, I start by checking if there are any…
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More node.js game action
This small game idea felt like fun – there is a man walking at the bottom of your browser window. Adjust the size of the browser window to make the man walk into the green area, i.e. live on. Try the game here: http://nodelab.earthpeople.se:1112 The man walks faster and faster and more green doors appear. To…
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Quiz buttons in node.js
For our recent fall party we made a music quiz, and if you’re quizzin you gotta have some buttonpressin. We looked for quiz buttons at teknikmagasinet, surprisingly we didn’t find anything. So www what do you have to offer? Nothing? Well ok, let’s build some buttons in node.js. Real time web! 5 teams, connected to…