That Norwegian Guy

I’ve been looking forward to this week for some time now. I’m going to meet some people from twitter, port80 and a lot more. It’s conference time! I’ll be warming up with the monthly port80 meeting at Velvet Lounge tonight, my second time there. Seems like a lot of people will be coming today too.

Tomorrow is Edge of the Web conference day. There’s so much to choose from, but at the moment my day looks like this:

1. Opening Keynote by Derek Featherstone


2. Hacking humans: Advocating for a better web by Ben Buchanan


3. Designing with Creative Code by Cameron Adams


4. Adobe AIR by Kai Koenig, or Involving users by Donna Spencer


5. Pushing the Boundaries on Content-Rich Websites by Russ Weakley


6. Either Developing for the iPhone or SaaS as an Ecosystem.


7. Usability for Designers, Developers, and Decision Makers by Lisa Herrod


8. Closing Keynote by Chris Messina

Friday is workshop day. For me the first half will be theoretic with Donna Spencer talking about Information Architecture, after lunch it’ll be hands on javascripting with Cameron Adams.

After all that I might just take the weekend off.

Tags:   conference · Edge of the Web · port80 · WebJam2 Comments

What an amazing feeling it is to win something that you actually want.

Just got a tweet saying I won SitePoint’s new book Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong. That is the one CSS book that’s come out recently that I feel any need of reading. As it is, I’ve done my fair share of CSS, not that I mind, not at all. I’ve long reached the point where I know which browsers has which bugs and how to combat them without my brain exploding. Most of the time anyway.

So I’ve finally taken the plunge into JavaScript. I know, it’s like starting a blog in 2008, but better late than never, right? And literally as I’m going through the last pages of Jeremy Keith’s DOM scripting (friendly lent from Man With No Blog) Twitter tells me they’ve picked a winner, not mentioning who the winner is. Easily distracted as I am I follow the link, read the whole post, and don’t realize I’m the lucky one until I read my own name towards the end. Never mind that they’ve screenshotted my twitterbadge all over the top. I just thought that was some new integrated twitter API thing displaying that I’m logged in. So in one word – yay!

Looks like I’m getting some visitors via the SitePoint blog and my twitter profile. Hi guys and girls!

Tags:   competition · css · SitePoint · winNo Comments.

The design is part of a greater branding, showing the company as a whole. XHTML, CSS and javascript templating by me. Built with Drupal.

The site is live at schjodt.no

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Just a quickie for Technorati. As my abounded blog on wordpress.com gets about 10 times more traffic then I do here I figured it’s time to take some measures to redirect people. I like stats just as much as the next guy or girl.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I hereby present my Technorati Profile.

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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.

Why use subversion?

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.

Tags:   cornerstone · subversion · versionsNo Comments.

blueflavor says it:

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.

The new solution

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.

Tags:   debugging · IE · IEtester · testing1 Comment

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