| Mon 27th Oct 2008 @ 10:14pm |
Recently while working on the new web site/website for work, the question of whether to use website or web site came up.
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| Tue 15th Jul 2008 @ 8:50pm |
I found this addon today for Firefox:
It helps you remember if you're working on your development site or live site by putting an icons in the address bar, and helps you quickly switch between the two by clicking it.
What I was actually looking for, and haven't found, is an addon that will make it more obvious which site I'm currently viewing - such as putting a big red border around the development site pages!
| Sat 5th Apr 2008 @ 10:16am |
There's a number of server-side javascript engines, but I stumbled upon one called Aptana Jaxer today that looks very good. It allows you to mix server-side and client-side JavaScript, call server-side scripts from the client, and to manipulate the DOM on the server using all the same functions as a normal web browser.
Note: I haven't tried it out - I just found it - so it may not be as good as it looks at first glance, but I wanted to make a note of it somewhere anyway.
| Tue 1st Jan 2008 @ 11:50pm |
I got an Airport Express for Christmas, so I can stream music to the kitchen or bedroom instead of carrying my ipod around with me. It works great, but has had me tearing my hair out for the last 3 hours!
Basically it works absolutely fine over the wireless network, but wasn't detected when I used the wired network (which is fatal as my main PC, the one with iTunes on it, doesn't have a wireless card!)
Turns out it is nothing to do with the wired network, but is caused by a bug in my router - The Linksys BEFSR41v4. For whatever reason, you have to enable WAN multicast filtering to get LAN multicasts - which Bonjour, including iTunes sharing and Airport Express discovery use - to work!
I'm very happy now! Unfortunately I haven't done any of the things I planned to this evening because of this... which means I now have to go make my bed so I have somewhere to sleep tonight!
| Sun 23rd Dec 2007 @ 5:34pm |
This morning I wrote about XHTML vs HTML4 - and HTML4 won. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean going back to table layouts, just changing the doctype and not putting a / in a BR tag.
BUT then I started looking into whether CSS layouts are worth it. Again I was surprised by the amount of material arguing for tables over CSS-P.
"Something (i.e. tables) that wasn't designed for layout still works, but something (i.e. css) that was supposed to designed for layout still doesn't. Ah, the irony!" -decloak
And again I am inclined to agree. Like many of the people I have read, I agree in principle with the separation of content and style, but don't want to have to use browser hacks to do so!
| Sun 23rd Dec 2007 @ 12:16pm |
I've been using XHTML for a while now, because it seems to be the thing to do. Yesterday I was looking into the difference between XHTML Transitional and Strict and I came across a discussion on WebmasterWorld about whether we should be using XHTML at all.
The consensus seems to be no, using HTML4 is the better option!
Having read that whole thread and a few other things, I'm inclined to agree.
| Sat 11th Aug 2007 @ 11:35am |
For a while now I've been using Ubuntu as my Linux distro of choice. On Monday I have to reinstall one of the Ubuntu servers at work, so I thought I'd have a look at Debian this weekend, to see if it would be better. I had a look for Debian vs Ubuntu posts online, but didn't find anything conclusive. So I went ahead and installed it on my laptop...
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| Fri 8th Jun 2007 @ 2:14am |
I reinstalled Win XP today and just spent the last half hour or more trying to figure out why Windows Explorer wasn't refreshing automatically whenever I created, renamed or deleted anything (so I had to press F5 a lot). Most of the things I found on the internet were about network shares, but this was happening locally.
Turns out the script I wrote to change all of my My Documents, Pictures, etc. locations to another drive was the culprit. Very subtle mistake... I set the My Documents location to "D:" instead of "d:\". (Not sure if it's the capitalisation or trailing \ but that seems to have been all it was!)
(HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\{User ,}Shell Folders\Personal or just right-click My Documents > Properties)
| Thu 3rd May 2007 @ 11:00pm |
I was going to write a rant about the use of the reset button in online forms. (To me it seems people put it in just because it's available.)
But Jakob Nielsen has already done that for me so I'll just link to his article instead!
| Thu 26th Apr 2007 @ 10:17pm |
I was trying to work out why my SetUID (chmod ug+s) script wouldn't work properly, until I came across a page that explains why this is disabled.
I've changed it to require that sudo ./myscript be used instead.
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