Programming Gotchas

What are gotchas? They’re itty-bitty details that will bite you because you didn’t say the secret word or rub your belly 3 times while pressing the Enter key. Gotcha!

Internet Explorer

• You can’t have a popup window with a space in the name.
• When making an HTA, don’t open links inside the HTA. You can’t use javascript:void(0) links, as it …
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Math & Numbers

• Mental math shortcuts, adding 1-100
• Understanding exponents and the natural log
• Div, Curl, Flux, Gradient and other Vector Calculus topics

Programming & Web Development

• Site speedups with HTTP caching, gzip compression
• Understanding Rails, Web debugging, and Javascrtipt
• Swap bytes with XOR, byte order, unicode

Business, Writing & Communication