For secret reasons I need to usually convert hex strings to decimal notation. This can be easily done with a scientific calculator, like the one supplied with Windows, but it’s slow and I’m usually in a hurry to convert them :)
So I took a look at GreaseMonkey, which is an extension for Firefox which allows to modify a web page once rendered with a simple javascript file.Read more
Quite so often a web developer starts thinking what’s wrong with the guys who make the rules of how Internet works. And if we dig a bit in the problem, we can many times see that the ‘non-sense’ is there not because the specs were flawed but because the popular implementations didn’t follow completely the spec.
The ‘non-sense’ I’ve been thinking about lately is why the hell we use the ampersand [&] to separate the arguments in a URL.Read more