I’d like to show you how to make two great libraries work together: Raphael and Knockout. I’ve built the basics of a purely browser-based application for creating simple graphs (as in “graph theory”). This article was supposed to be a longish explanation of how it all works, but unfortunately I’m really short on time. The working [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Linux server security tips
The obvious Always keep your system up to date with security patches. No amount of configuration can save you if your version of sshd allows anyone born before 1970-01-01 to log in as root. Always employ the Principle of least privilege: give users only the permissions they strictly need. Check that your system doesn’t run [...]
Quick fix: Bring back the scroll buttons to GMail
There’s been some noise on the ‘net about missing scroll up/down buttons in the new Google design. Note that this only affects the browsers based on WebKit (Chrome, Safari and some KDE browsers, to name a few). Here’s a way to fix that. Why are the buttons gone? As IE before, WebKit has introduced styleable scroll-bars. (Whether that’s [...]