Category: Using the technology
While developing the application, much was learned about making the technology reliably behave.
- Accessing the license server
- Licenses are the key to operation and a domain is assigned to them. Domains are unique, so that provides a means of restricting who can access the license server.
- Adding search
- After discovering that search engines ignored most less popular sites' pages, an included site search facility was required.
- Browser developer tools
- Browsers provide a development environment to facilitate debugging pages.
- ChatGPT evaluating AI
- A session with the public version of ChatGPT 4o mini about the limitations of AI, and LLMs in particular.
- Fluid design
- Websites need to adapt to a whole range of screen sizes, and CSS does all the heavy lifting for that.
- Iterating to a solution
- Sometimes it takes a few attempts to get something right.
- Locales and the CLDR
- The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is a comprehensive set of functionality that is included with PHP via its intl extension.
- PHP functions in XSLT
- The versions of XSLT and XPath provided with PHP are only version 1.0, but includes the facility to directly call PHP functions from XPath statements.
- Strange dreams and the subconscious
- There are some side effects of being so mentally and emotionally invested in a project over a long time!
- The Android oversized text solution
- Over the years, browsers on Android have rendered text larger than on other platforms. Some newer CSS appears to solve that along with better relative sizing of different fonts.
- The Sequence element and Audio API
- The Sequence element requires JavaScript because it is needed to access the Audio API.
- Using AI effectively
- Modern AI is designed for finding relevant information and presenting it. They do not actually know much!
- Using technical references
- Of course, any new product will involve a lot of novel arrangements of new ideas with information from technical references.
- WTF
- Sometimes, there are some things that have no explanation.