Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
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.
jQuery: External links open up in a new window
I’ve received many bug tickets from Disney QA stressing that external links NEED to be opened in a new window or tab. The site that I am working on have many articles that have hard coded links and most of them don’t open up in a new window. I have 3 ways to solve this issue.
XKCD: NP-Complete Problem
I was browsing through the job section on Craigslist one day and one of the job postings caught my attention. I read through their job listing and one of their requirements was to solve a problem programmatically from xkcd. This is a first that I’ve seen for job postings and I think it’s pretty awesome. You are looking for a programmer so why not test out their skills before you hire them.