Category: web

A Slightly Snarky Overview of Security for Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat crops up a lot, and frequently having been configured by someone without a lot of security background. I'll spend a little bit of time looking at some of what you can do to improve security at a high level - I won't be giving step by step instructions,...

Chrome Fullscreen SVG and Javascript Animations

Recently I have been working on a small web application which uses Javascript to animate and interact with a SVG. I wanted to fullscreen the SVG with the animation running. To do this, I used the fullscreen API, but quickly discovered differences between browsers. In particular, while Firefox would provide...

Adding Bootstrap CSS as a Git Subtree

[Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) is a popular web frontend framework for both CSS and Javascript. Since I utilized CSS components from Bootstrap in the recent rework of my site, I wanted to clean things up such that I reduced the amount of CSS required to render the site. The first step in the...