Attending the Over The Air conference 2009 in Imperial College London, I had the chance to assist to some very good sessions, including a cool workshop on designing mobile apps conducted by Thom Hume, MD of Future Platforms in Brighton.
Entitled ‘Many ways up the mobile mountain’, the topic was about following an iterative process to build an application for a specific character – intended to act as a market segment – and a specific mobile device.
development / design / photography / (and a bit of triathlon)
Archives for the month of: September, 2009
I can’t recall how many times I’ve entered a domain name in a browser, say ‘domain.com’, only to wait 30 seconds and get an ugly 502 Bad gateway error in return.
The problem? Enter http://domain.com instead of http://www.domain.com and see what happens.
- you are served the expected website, the url stays the same
- you are redirected to http://www.domain.com or some other url
- you get a 502, Bad gateway timeout
I don’t know if it’s laziness, lack of knowledge or simply host providers being plain rubbish, but it’s an annoying problem that can be solved extremely simply!