February 2012
2 posts
Achieving Hackmode
If you know programmers, you know that they get into hack mode.
Lately I’ve been trying to figure out why I can lose whole afternoons doing CSS, Javascript, or Ruby, but can’t seem to work up that level of concentration in Java.
After some observations, I think the difference comes down to the tools. When I’m working in those ligher weight languages, I’m normally using...
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Access Denied Error when using XHR PUT and DELETE
Late one night, I was attempting to wire up a delete button on a Rails app using XHR. However, every time I attempted to make the XHR call, I saw AccessDenied in the server log and my session was un authenticated. Since it was late, I remapped it to a different URL and moved on.
However, the fact that this did not work still bothered me and when I revisited it after a good night’s sleep,...