David’s Web Development Blog

I have never been involved in creating a web crawler, but as a website owner I’m well aware of the behavior of good crawlers versus bad crawlers.  For instance, a good crawler must not only follow the rules set by robots.txt, but it must also not impose an undue load on the server being indexed. Famously, [...]

Maybe this comes as a no-brainer for a lot of you, but I’ve found that unless I’m super-comfortable with writing a bit of code I know will work, I find myself constantly checking it to make sure it’s working properly, each step of its journey to completion. This constant checking of code may in passing resemble [...]

The last entry I made as some really nicely formatted code, if I do say so myself.  It’s because I’ve discovered SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. The general code can be used on any HTML and says it’s 100% JavaScript-based.  The Wordpress plugin version is based on PHP but looks exactly the same. All you do when posting [...]

The conference was definitely interesting and well worth the drive from Southern California!  I finally got to see a lot of familiar names in person.  Douglas Crockford was there of course, and he didn’t have to worry about making people laugh at the right time during his keynote.  When Douglas wants you to laugh, you [...]