Posts by Azuka
Web.config
IIS is a great server — writen especially for Windows, it functions exactly the way it’s meant to, ignoring the security breaches and high response time from the folks at Microsoft. One thing that gets me annoyed about using PHP and IIs is the lack of support for url-rewriting. Except you’ve installed some third-party tool […]
AJAX Conquered
I knew I was going to find a way out of the IE mess. A little skeptical about what I’d be able to find, I Googled reusing xmlhttprequest objects in ie and hit the jackpot on the first try. Here’s the solution, which I got from Pavan Keely’s blog. Currently, my custom AJAX class works […]
Stereotypes
My novel-reading career started with Dickens’ The Great Expectations when I was five. Since then, I’ve read more than 10,000 books. When I penned my first story at the age of eight, I had come to realize that stereotypes exist in the world of fiction — nothing in most fiction is true to life. It […]
AJAX Nuances
I got a book on Ajax (Ajax in Action) some centuries ago (January) and lifted the custom class Eric Pascarello et al used. I discovered I didn’t like their logic very much and decided to write mine to make use of just one XMLHttpRequest object. That was when I ran into a very annoying snag […]
Summer Blues
The semester’s ended, and I’m very bored. I was at the YMCA yesterday and my ping pong has definitely moved up towards my former level — Vito, the tricky Italian had some trouble holding me off my aggression (even with his crazy backhand). I think summer’s going to be very boring. I suddenly discovered I […]
Forum Posting
I exist as two entities — Azuka in real life, and Zahymaka on the net. I like to feel I say only reasonable things in real life but sadly, that doesn’t happen to be what I do in cyberspace. I decided to look at the various forums I’m on and cut down on the useless […]