Varnish Workspace Error
We had been having an issue with losing cookies in Varnish. Because of how Varnish works, the way to work around cookies is to store them in headers inbetween states of the request process. We were fi...
Google is breaking the Web
So, Google announced today that they would start doing a couple of new things. First, they are going to start sending all logged in users to their SSL enabled search page. Secondly, they claimed they ...
Sharing gotchas on Facebook and Twitter
I have been working on adding some sharing features to dealnews.com. Dealing with Facebook and Twitter has been nothing if not frustrating. Neither one seems to understand how to properly deal with es...
ob_start and HTTP headers
I was helping someone in IRC deal with some "headers already sent" issues and told them to use ob_start. Very diligently, the person went looking for why that was the right answer. He did not find a g...
Enhance your 404 Pages with Google
I was just poking around the Google Webmaster Tools and came across a neat idea. Google has a snippet of javascript you can put on your 404 error pages that will give the user more information ...
ForceType for nice URLs with PHP
This has been covered before, but I was just setting up a new force type on our servers and thought I would mention it for the fun of it. You see lots of stuff about using mod_rewrite to make friendly...