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Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash

For some reason, I keep forgetting if double slash URLs are supported in older browsers or not. Maybe if I post the answer from this StackOverflow question here, I will remember it myself next time:

This behavior was part of RFC 1808 (Section 4) which is about 16 years old, so every major browser should (and does) support this.

Sadly, there’s a bug with IE7 and -8 that will make them download the resources twice if a protocol-relative URL is used on a link or @import – which shouldn’t be a big problem, but is ugly and should be kept in mind.

So, that might be a problem for the CSS, but the JavaScript and images should work just fine.

GitHub contributions graph

After reading Mark Story‘s “Coding every day” post, I started checking my own GitHub contributions chart once in a while. Until today, I haven’t noticed that the chart has two different modes. One is your public contributions, seen by people who are not part of your organization’s and private projects. Here is how mine looks. (Notice the “Public contributions” title of the graph).

Yeah, I know, pathetic. And here is how the full contributions chart looks like, for me and people who have access to see my private projects activities. The graph is for the same period. (Notice a simpler “Contributions” title of the graph”).

Could be better, but not as bad anymore. Now with that I’ll try to push more stuff to the Open Source side of things again.

CakeFest 2014 at Madrid, Spain during August 21-24

I am seriously considering going to CakeFest this year. Madrid is not too far away to fly to. The event takes place over the weekend, so work stuff can be easily arranged. And it doesn’t cost too much – a 2-day conference with the 4-star hotel is only $480 USD (early bird prices until July 15th). That alone is a good deal.

But looking at the schedule, it’s even more tempting. The upcoming CakePHP v3 coverage, advances queries, testing, debugging, profiling and optimization, using CakePHP with Composer, Twitter Bootstrap, Travis CI, Selenium, AngularJS and more – these are just some of the subjects that will be covered. And the speakers are on par including core developers, community leaders, and otherwise interesting people.

Time in China

Time in China follows a single standard time of UTC+08:00, which is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. China geographically spans five time zones and there were five time zones in use during the Republic of China (1912–1949). Since 1949 all of China has only had a single standard time, but UTC+06:00 is also used unofficially in Xinjiang and Tibet.

Wikipedia

Bootstrap/386 – a Twitter Bootstrap theme to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s

Bootstrap/386 – a Twitter bootstrap theme to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s.