August, 2008


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Aug 08

What browsers do when we ../ too much

Part of my thesis work touches on the way web browsers behave and how they process the code that the almighty developers throw at them. Most browsers do not scoff at crappy code, they do try to make sense of it and try to put lipstick on a pig. While testing my code on my own family website, I noticed an interesting behavior: the PHP header file I was including in all pages, had a reference to an image

<img src="../images/imageName.jpg" />

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Aug 08

Deploying a web application to Jetty

The Jetty web application server is great. It is just not very well document and when it is documented it is aimed for the very uninitiated. If you’re using Jetty, it is almost like an old boys club – ‘you made it’.

Still, it appears that Jetty and Tomcat are becoming much more similar in their way of doing things, with both using a somewhat proprietary, if you can say that on an open source project, configuration schemes. So how do you deploy a web application to Jetty?

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Aug 08

Cheap food review: Target’s Ming Tsai Hunan Noodles

I am an unabashed fan of noodle meals that come in boxes. Target is also the place where the vast majority of my grocery and household needs expenditures are made. I gave up on the Simply Asia brand because I am frankly scared of food made in China, however tasty they were (and they indeed were tasty). So I was happy to find semi-superstar Ming Tsai’s own brand of noodles (made in India…) at Target.

Today I finally had a chance to try the Ming Tsai Hunan Noodles, described as ‘delicious wheat noodles tossed with a spicy savory sauce’. Easy to make in 1.5 minutes in the microwave, too.

My thoughts: a fail.
Really lacking any flavor other spicy. Greasy too. Unlike Simply Asia, this dish also lacked anything substantial other than flavorless carrot dust. Stay away.

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