iOS6 features something that will feel like a bug to most web developers out there, but in reality is Apple trying to enforce a definition in the HTTP spec that has never been utilized before. See this on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12506897/is-safari-on-ios-6-caching-ajax-results In regards to POST data, the HTTP spec defines this little gem: “Responses to ...

When building web applications, we develop, we test, we release. And when we test, we’re generally designing and verifying test cases that we are expecting our end users to come across, either intentionally or accidentally. We may, if we are diligent, go a step further and attempt to identify holes in the application as well ...

I ran into an issue serving the proper mime type for a cache manifest from grails today, adding a ‘manifest’ key to grails.mime.types failed to register for some reason (if you know why, do tell!). Running on a server this can be addressed by setting the mime type directly in tomcat, but i needed to ...

Here’s a quick and dirty class for converting seconds into the proper hours : minutes : seconds display format, with optional resolution setting (hours/minutes/seconds). Defaults to hours. Sample implementation: trace(TimeFormat.formatTime(200, TimeFormat.SECONDS)); outputs “0:03:20″. Full class after the break.