File contents mysteriously removed using FTP

Posted by Matt Thommes on January 6, 2010 | Post type: Pain | Status: Unresolved

A strange thing has been happening to me lately - after doing some development work on various remote websites using FTP, sometimes I'll notice a particular file I was working on suddenly has no contents. ... Read more!

Facebook iPhone app: Find and add Pages to Favorites desktop

Posted by Matt Thommes on December 31, 2009 | Post type: Gain

Tip for finding and adding Facebook Pages to your iPhone Facebook app favorites desktop. ... Read more!

Send and receive SMS through email with Google Voice

Posted by Matt Thommes on December 4, 2009 | Post type: Gain

Now you can send and receive SMS solely through your email inbox, eliminating SMS charges, and inbox redundancy. ... Read more!

Archiving Gmail on iPhone through IMAP

Posted by Matt Thommes on December 1, 2009 | Post type: Gain

One aspect of Gmail I missed when using the iPhone Mail client is the ability to simply "Archive" messages. ... Read more!

User-interface gripe: password requirements

Posted by Matt Thommes on November 20, 2009 | Post type: Pain | Status: Unresolved

Since when did it become the duty of the system to make sure I provide a hard-to-guess password? It used to be that responsibility fell on the user. ... Read more!

MySQL: search for specific column names

Posted by Matt Thommes on November 20, 2009 | Post type: Gain

A often useful feature of MySQL is the ability to search amongst column names. ... Read more!

Internet Explorer gradual scrolling for Page Up, Page Down

Posted by Matt Thommes on November 18, 2009 | Post type: Gain

Internet Explorer 8's gradual scrolling has my Firefox yearning for such a feature. ... Read more!

Manipulating HTML with JavaScript: <label> element "for" attribute

Posted by Matt Thommes on November 18, 2009 | Post type: Pain | Status: Unresolved

When manipulating HTML documents via JavaScript and the DOM, it's important to watch out for reserved-keyword-crossover issues, where certain HTML element or attribute names are actually reserved keywords in JavaScript. ... Read more!

Firefox: 'Warn me when closing multiple tabs' does not work

Posted by Matt Thommes on November 16, 2009 | Post type: Pain | Status: Unresolved

Even when I have "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" checked under Options, Firefox still quits without providing the warning. This occurs sporadically on Windows XP. ... Read more!