Apache Mime Types for Office 2007 Files
Jon had posted up a link to an Excel file he created with the extension .xlsx, an Office 2007 file, on to his site. The upload was fine and all until you wanted to download it, in IE. He was telling me why the Excel file was saving to a zip document instead of the xlsx document. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about because I’m on a Mac and Macs don’t have IE. Good thing I have a virtual machine running with IE7 on it. I thought he was talking gibberish but what he said was true. It was saving the Excel as a zip. I opened the zip to find worksheets and style data so I guess this new Microsoft file type is pretty much a zip file so that probably made IE confused.
Facebook Puzzle: Hoppity Hop!
I love puzzles, especially coding puzzles. Here is one that I found on Facebook’s jobs page for Hoppity Hop!. It is similar to one I had to solve during a job interview last year but it’s a little different because this one has to be run via the Command Line Interface. This is the easiest puzzle that Facebook posted, if you want to see the other puzzles, head on over to: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php.
SEO Friendly Pop-Up Windows
I’ve seen plenty of sites out there who are still using javascript:openWindow(); to open up a smaller pop-up window. Though the method works very effectively, it makes the spiders unable to crawl the content of that pop-up window. Spiders aren’t able to follow JavaScript links so your pop-up window content won’t make it to the search engines’ indexes at all.
Bullet Madness at Stylegala
Looking for some quick bullets for your unordered list for your design? The folks over at Stylegala compiled a list of bullet images sent in by users that you can save to your site and use. Head over to http://www.stylegala.com/features/bulletmadness/ to check them out. This list also serves as a good inspiration for those who are looking for that special bullet because we all know that a circle is just too plain.