Why not to use a pop-up window

If you're using a pop-up window on your website, you're doing it wrong.
It's akin to using nested tables for display, fer chrissakes!

Reasons why it's wrong:

• It's a poor user experience because the user doesn't get any of the usual browser functionality in the pop-up window, like the back button or the icon that tells you the page is loading.
• I'm sure I'll think of some more later

Testing Catalyst

Notes:

Catalyst::Test - you get a context object back

Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst - you don't have to run a separate server

Change timezone in Linux

Change this link:

$ ls -l /etc/localtime

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     dwebadm        34 Dec  2 01:12 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Singapore*

Cannot install Java JDK: semicolon found in selected path

There's no semi colon in the install path. But you still get the error:

        semicolon found in selected path

Solution is to move the install .exe to c:\ and run it again.

Possibly with command line switches: /v"/L c:\install.log"

(Search results show that this same issue has existed for 11 years!)

Why not to require javascript

Reasons not to require javascript for critical features of your website:

• It can slow down the user experience.
• Standard HTML form and browser controls are the way they are for a reason: They work. Subvert or reinvent them at your peril.
• It's much more likely Javascript code won't work as expected in all browsers, than HTML.
• When some part of it breaks, forcing the user to disable it, they won't be able to use the rest of the website
• Not all browsers have javascript, for example Lynx (text only) and JAWS (i.e. screen readers which blind people use).
• It often makes automated testing harder
• When the user gets logged out due to inactivity, the AJAX calls may behave unexpectedly

Disclaimer: This is my opinion only, based on personal experience.