[Please see update below for a proper fix] Today I received an email from a client that had just moved their site over to SSL (i.e. HTTPS) — they were no longer able to download files in Internet Explorer. When they tried to do so, a message would appear: Unable to download…[file name] The file [...]
I’m just coming to the end of a project that required checkout via PayPal. The system is to be hosted in an iframe embedded in a third party site’s page, but when redirecting to PayPal the iframe ‘pops out’ to take over the whole page (PayPal forces this behaviour). All was working smoothly using the [...]
I’m currently working on a project to convert an existing Flash map, which uses location data that’s been manually entered and maintained, to use data that comes from a database and uses latitude and longitude values. The original data is stored in an XML file so updating it dynamically is not a problem but as [...]
I’ve been having a week where there’s a ton of stuff to be done in a short time, yet everything seems to take much longer than it should and every task seems to present multiple unforseen obstacles. Yesterday, for example, I was working on something that had already taken several days of my time when [...]
Here’s a great blog post discussing a technique to simplify and encourage commenting on a blog, in particular by quoting text snippets. I might well try to find the time to implement it here on StickBlog.