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- July 3, 2005
DirectX Programming Prep
July 3, 2005Read moreSome working notes and links for getting into DirectX this weekend. I’m looking primarily for an architectural overview of how everything fits together.
- July 3, 2005
Bowling Weekend
July 3, 2005Read moreI went bowling twice this weekend, once at Lane and Games in Cambridge, and then again at Merrimack Ten Pin here in New Hampshire. And yes, it was the full-sized experience, not that candlepin or duckpin stuff. Here are my notes on the quality of the facilities.
- July 3, 2005
A Detour through St. Francis
July 3, 2005Read moreLast Friday I was catching up with Duncan after lunch, and we got on the subject of music, and how hymns seem to have imprinted my subconscious though a lot of them were kinda dull. Which triggered a Whole Lotta Thoughts.
- July 2, 2005
- July 1, 2005
User Agent Strings and Browser Testing
July 1, 2005Read moreI just discovered the reason why my notebook computer isn’t playing nice with certain ASP applications: I had apparently, in a fit of moral outrage over how Internet Explorer pretends to be Mozilla in its user agent string, changed that string to something else.
A little background: The user-agent string is a bit of info that your browser sends back to a webserver to identify its “model”. Since every browser is a little different, web pages are sometimes coded to detect which “make and model” is being used, adjusting what is displayed accordingly. Internet Explorer did this to be compatible with then-king of the hill Netscape Navigator. After Navigator was firmly crushed, IE continued to masquerade itself using the Mozilla monicker, a grisly trophy of the Great Browser War. The doppleganger prevailed, assuming the identity of the original!
That just didn’t seem right, so I changed the name of the browser from “Mozilla/4.0” to “IE6” in the user-agent string using some arcane methodology I have since forgotten. Another injustice righted! Another ghost laid to rest!
But then the haunting began…
