Category: web development

  • Twitter Bootstrap Modal Won’t Load Content from Another (“Remote”) Page

    Short answer You apparently need a skeleton [modal … modal-body … /modal] for your data-target, not just an empty modal with the data-target. A Programmer’s False Assumptions – The API is Broken or Old Initially, I was concerned that my Rails plugin wasn’t using a version of Bootstrap that didn’t include the remote loading of…

  • Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search

    Very good points in the following article:  Why Google Will Never Be Good At Enterprise Search | SocialComputingMagazine.com. I like to think of the difference as: Publisher-centric search with influence given to the reader/subscriber for internet search. Data and hierarchy centered search for enterprise search.

  • Password protecting a website

    Password protecting a website using .htaccess – this method pretty much requires shell access, but most web hosts have a web control panel interface to do this work. It should be noted that this isn’t the most fool-proof method of protecting your data, and a configuration error can inadvertently open up your directory to the…