Tag: tutorials

Identifying the cookies your website sets

  • April 16, 2012 at 6:20 pm

  • There has been a flurry of people telling us that we need to react to the change in cookie law, and that we must audit our cookies first. That’s all very well, but how? How do we find out what cookies our websites are setting? Here I give some ways of finding that out. I’ve done [...]

A Beginner's Sinatra Tutorial

  • May 31, 2010 at 6:00 pm

  • In my desperate attempt to grapple with Ruby people keep introducing me to new and 'better' ways to use it, before I've had a chance to understand what I was doing with the previous one they lauded. Currently under my nose is Sinatra, which would probably be great if I understood what I was doing. [...]

What is RSS?

  • March 4, 2009 at 9:20 am

  • Explaining to the uninitiated why web feeds are useful is something a lot of us find hard to do. So here I’ve attempted to draw an analogy: with fish. I’m not actually going to try and explain what RSS is (or equivalents such as Atom), because it’s a bit technical and has a confusing history [...]