Recently, I was forced to challenge a long-held notion about SSL: that the overhead was so significant that it ought to be used sparingly. I had held this belief for a long time, dating back to the preteen years of the web. The idea was that SSL caused a large...
I have been working on licensed PHP/Yii webapp that is highly customizable. Clients can specify all sort of custom views, behaviors, and workflows. We were running into situations where one client wanted a page to look one way, and another wanted it to look another...
Modal dialog windows have become pretty commonplace on the web these days, ranging from simple alerts to confirmation alerts to full embedded forms. There are a myriad of javascript libraries available for generating modal dialogs (jQueryUi, bootstrap, thickbox,...
Let’s face it, those of us who work on computers for living have a lot of data sitting around. In fact, even those of us who don’t work on computers have a lot of data sitting around. We have multiple computers, each with giant hard drives, replicated by...
