Too Far Afield

It’s now official: I will be visiting CeBIT in Hannover on Saturday, March 17. See you there.

Maybe I need a t-shirt: Warning: I spill coffee over laptops. Maintain a safe distance. At least this time it was my own notebook.

Sometimes when you’re reading source code you come across some unexpected comments:

1. if ($showPDF) {
2. // Oh, mein Gott, eine PDF-Datei kommt auf Internet Explorer zu...
3. $sessionHandler->setSessionCacheLimiter('private_no_expire');
4. }

For those who do not understand German I’ll translate the comment: Oh my God. Internet Explorer will serve a PDF file soon…

This comment is making fun of Internet Explorer, because you need to change PHPs session cache limiter to work around some funny bugs in Internet Explorer regarding PDF files and SSL encrypted connections.