Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

julho 2007

IE7 certificate check

Internet Explorer 6 had a local list of trusted certificate authorities, when accessing a secure website, it would check locally if the certificate is valid and return right away to the user. When Internet Explorer 7 was released, it came with a new idea, the list came empty and IE7 had to communicate with Microsoft datacenter to check it’s status. If it is valid, then it will show a green background in the URL prompt, if it’s not or it could not communicate with the datacenter, it will show a red background in the URL prompt and a warning page…

Emacs Flymake

[flv]http://marcelotoledo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/emacs-flymake.flv[/flv] I have a lot of friends that use Vi, one of them today was around and catched me working on a C program inside Emacs. He got impressed by one of the Emacs modes called Flymake, it does on-the-fly spell checking and I was using it with the gcc compiler. I’ve recorded a video to show how this mode works.