Telephone Numbers On The Mobile Web
This lunchtime I had cause to try and find the phone number for a local restaurant. Rather than pay for directory enquiries I opted to do a Google search on my mobile (I have a flat rate data plan). Of course, I could only do this because I happened to have paper and pen handy [...]
Will Facebook Break The Bank(s’ Authentication Methods)?
The recent loss of personal details on 25m people by HMRC has certainly raised the public profile of data protection and identity theft. Lots of coverage from the events themselves, to how people were personally affected, to its impact on the government’s proposed identity cards, even the standard of journalism over the issue.
One of the [...]
What Do You Have?
No I’m not asking about anything that might be classified as contagious, but what do you call those who for whatever reason make a request of your web server to serve up a page.
On Website To Dos and the blog I have tended to use the generic “visitor” as I have no way of knowing [...]
Log Everything (And I’m Not Talking About Weblogs)
More specifically, log anything that could impact your visitor’s experience if it all goes horribly wrong… and make sure you are keeping sufficient detail.
The most obvious case would be the error codes in your basic access log. If many people are getting a 404 on a particular page then you know something is wrong. Perhaps [...]
