Gregg Hilferding

I've had subdomains on my mind for a couple different projects on my "to do" list. I should remember to read Subdomains + Development = Sucks before I start those.

I can empathize heavily with the concern of setting up subdomains in a dev environment. I've faced that issue, albeit briefly, just with www. vs. non-www. coding.

So, although this post is mostly a reminder to myself, I'll still tag it "signal." :)

At work we just announced some new patrol patches. You've gotta love stuff like this:

That one's for the grownups. ;)

Updated I ran across this old post and wanted to update this to reflect my current knowledge of BSA regulations. :) Adults don't wear patrol emblems except during Wood Badge training. Kind of reduces how popular this item could be, but I can think of a few Scouts I know who might still pick the rocking chair as their symbol. :)

All free blog hosting services are fighting a huge fight against the automated use of their service for a variety of nefarious purposes. The worst offenders use javascript to automatically redirect the user to download pages for spyware.

On Blogger, they provide a "Flag this Blog" button to easily report blogs that violate their Terms of Service or Content Policy. Sadly, this button requires Javascript to be enabled -- making it impossible to quickly report the worst offending blogs.

Please note, the following links to an example of a Blogger blog that is impossible to report because the user is immediately hijacked away from the page:

http://hintai.blogspot.com/

Please fix this Blogger! :(

Congratulations to the Prototype team for rolling out Prototype v1.5.1! :D

Sadly, the current stable version of Scriptaculous (v.1.7.0) is not compatible. In Safari, calling any Effect will fill the Javascript console with an infinite number of "Maximum call stack size exceeded." warnings.

You'll need to run the Scriptaculous v1.7.1 beta 2 to avoid this issue until a new stable version comes out.