Email thread 1 at work:
From Administration secretary:
The new venetian blinds for the meetingrooms have arrived. The remotes are lying in the windowsill.
Reply from boss who spends 99% of his time in clientmeetings:
... and I promise you that it’s really fun – have been running the blinds up and down for 30 minutes. This is cool
1 Translated from Norwegian.
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A quick warning to anyone using wordpress considering using the Wordpress automatic upgrader. DON’T USE IT! I was lucky and it worked on this blog, so I went ahead and used it on another site. Which is now permenantly stuck in maintenance mode. Thanks guys. Offcourse, if I’d done my googling before trying it out I would have know better. There are plenty others who have the same problem. And the solution in the faq? Doesn’t work either.
Enough ranting, I gotta get back to googling now.
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Subversion has been well know to programmers who love the terminal since the early 2000s. To me it’s always seemed to complicated to use, even though I’ve always had this nagging suspicion that if I could only figure out how to use it, then it would be A Very Good Thing.
At my workplace we have a bunch of graphic designers and a bunch of developers. I’m somewhere in between. And there’s always the problem when the designer, or client, or manager, wants some graphical changes done. The designer makes the change, uploads to server or emails it, front-end guy (me) adds it to the stylesheet, emails new CSS and image to the back-end developer who then tests it on his (sorry, no female developers her) local test-server, and then finally uploads it to the live page.
You don’t have to be a rocket-scientist to see that this isn’t a streamlined process. With a subversion client that takes out the ‘hacking’ bits, the graphic designers will be willing to use it. I, and everyone else, will immediately see the change and voila! No more going through emails to see who did what when.
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One of jQuery’s greatest accomplishments is something that the W3C itself has not done: getting browsers to use CSS3 selectors. As many of you know, this is the equivalent of finding Atlantis.
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I’ve been testing in multiple IEs for a while, but recently I ran into a huge problem. Huge to me because I rely on conditional comments rather than CSS hacks/filters. As it turns out multiple IE doesn’t read conditional comments, probably because Windows and/or the Internet Explorers get confused about which browser itself is. I know, how hard can it be? Specially when other browsers have no problems emulating any browser you want it to be.
DebugBar launched IEtester last week month, enabling us to have one browser, one interface, with tabs that renders four flavors of IE. That’s versions 5.5, 6, 7 and beta 8 for the time being.
Join the gang and make it easier on yourself, programmers, developers, designers and end-users everywhere. Firefox 3 goes live tomorrow, and we can help them set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
Take the pledge and feel good. Why? Because it’s nerdy, it’s smart, it’s internets. And it’s got things like improved performance, security, ease of use and so on.
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I’m using last.fm fairly much, and like having the little last.fm app running in the background, which means the only visible sign of it on my desktop is tucked away in the menu bar.
But somewhere along the way an update forced me to having the audioscrobbler icon down in my dock. If you’re anal like me about what belongs and doesn’t belong in the dock you’d find this extremely annoying. I tried Dock Dodger, but it failed miserably. Probably something wrong with me. So I avoided using it, and/or tried to avoid getting annoyed about it while waiting for a new update which would hopefully bring the option to choose away showing the icon in the dock. And my patience worked! As you see from the screenshot under, the little checkbox is back and ready to be unchecked. Joy and bliss.
Interestingly this whole on/off thing with Last.fm has made me increase my use of last.fm, so perhaps the whole thing was a diabolical plan in order to increase traffic?
The nextgen gallery is a great not-so-little plugin for Wordpress. If you have a imagegallery you want to display I’m pretty sure this will cover most of your needs.
My problem, offcourse there was a problem, was that my square thumbnails would stretch the images. So annoying that I ditched the idea of square and went on with my day. Before doing so I did my share of debugging/googling forums, so I could rant to my co-workers afterwards. Mid-rant I realised what the problem was.
The thumbnails are set upon upload, so changes to the format is bound to make changes.
Solution: delete gallery and upload the images once more.
Lesson (re-)learned this time: When stuck with something it always helps talking with others about it.
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I wanted to save some screenshots from Skitch to Evernote in a direct as way as possible. I heard that they work very well together, but couldn’t find out how. Then I remembered that i can save PDF straight to Evernote, and Skitch does print. So there you go.
But, it’s a bit tedious. And offcourse there was an more obvious direct approach. Skitch has the little ‘Drag me’ handle, and the Evernote application happily accepts images that you drop into it. Good ‘ol Drag’n Drop saves the day!
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Or make IE slower. Or appear slower. Which is the same. Is that so wrong of me? I’m already doing so by feeding IE additional stylesheets and ocationaly markup through conditional comments. And in those stylesheets you often find extra images.
But by making sure my main stylesheet is clean, and use all the CSS2.1 goodness, and even some supported CSS3, the gap can be made even greater. I’m not saying put unnessary code in there, but if it’s done a big site the difference might be noticable for the user. Which then will go “Hey, the internett is faster in this [modern browser] than the other internet!”. 1 down, 3.287.333.207 (huh?) to go.
Disclaimer: I have no benchmarks to prove that there will be a noticable difference in speed. But I like to think so!
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