A GoDaddy hosted website of mine had the annoying habit until recently of displaying a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error page whenever an invalid, nonexistent URL was specified, rather than the expected HTTP 404 Not Found error. Annoying because I had a custom 404 error page defined and setup for the site, but for whatever [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web’
Blogosphere, Meet Usenet
Being quite familiar with Kathy Sierra through the Head First series of books Head First Java and Head First Design Patterns, it was a bit shocking to read that she’s been the subject of death threats and violence against her on her blog.
Or maybe not. Blogs, it appears, have now become the new Usenet, where [...]
Java and RIAs
I don’t do Rich Internet Applications, but Bruce Eckel, of Thinking In Java fame, explains in an article how Java missed the boat on RIAs and why technologies like Ajax have picked up the pieces. It’s all quite interesting, and he makes a good argument for using Flash-based technologies like Flex for GUI development instead. [...]
michaelzanussi.com 2.0
The last incarnation of these web pages was getting pretty stale, so I thought it was time to redesign the site. I decided to give WordPress a try, as it seemed simple enough to install and maintain, and hack. So far I like what I’ve seen, and it’s been pretty straightforward hacking the site to [...]
