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About me
Web developer at Big Fish. Bassist, sandwich enthusiast. Excessively tall.
I’ve found the quickest and easiest way to get relaxed after a hard day or a stressful experience. Make sure you’ve got your speakers or headphones working, then open two new tabs in your browser.
In one tab, open this: http://www.rainymood.com/
In the other tab, open this: http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k
Courtesy of reddit – read the thread to get some classic-style literature to go with your classy mood.
I feel sorry for Microsoft. They created the widest used operating system in the world, and they still own the office suite market. But I can’t stand to watch them pretend to be the world leader on the Web.
When I read about Microsoft and their approach to Web technologies over the last five years I’m not thinking about the company that gave us Windows, the operating system that taught me so much about computers. I’m thinking of Internet Explorer, Silverlight, ActiveX, and the emerging HTML5 standards support. I’m thinking about the countless hours spent in the Consider server room trying to get an otherwise perfectly put together website look right in Internet Explorer. Like it or not we’re still stuck with making sure our work looks right in IE6 and IE7, then double checking that IE8 is comfortable with everything. The problem is that Microsoft’s biggest legacy is Windows XP; still found on most corporate computers and still available with new laptops and netbooks. As long as people are still using XP we’re stuck with these old browsers.
Step one: Go to Google.
Step two: Search for “site:dailymail.co.uk cancer”
Step three: Get scared. The following things cause cancer…
CMS Made Simple has been my CMS of choice for about four years. Why? Mostly because it let me use Smarty, and it’s what we used to use at Consider. But it’s 2010 now, I’m in a different company, and the world of the open source CMS has come a long way (some more than others).
Why ditch CMS Made Simple? “Ditch” is such an ugly word. But ultimately it’s because I want a simple website that’s going to do what I want it to do. That means sidebars, widgets, the occasional custom template. At Consider we did plenty of custom backend stuff for clients and a lot of bespoke modules for added functionality. I carried the CMSMS influence over to my personal site because it was what I knew and what I was using every day.
I love Google Chrome. It’s fast, it’s smooth, it’s sexy to look at. But it gets too big for its boots sometimes – probably the only negative feature in my mind is that it insists on highlighting every input field that has focus with a little orange border. I’d really rather it didn’t do that.
Want to get rid of it? Just put this in your CSS document:
:focus {outline: none;}
This will make your CSS file invalid. Put it in an inline <style> tag to get around this:
<style type=”text/css”>:focus {outline: none;}</style>
It’s really easy to download TV shows via BitTorrent, and while I may be a little late in the day to discover RSS downloading, this technique ensures you’ll never miss an episode.
OpenID is best described as “an open, decentralized standard for authenticating users which can be used for access control, allowing users to log on to different services with the same digital identity”. Finally! Wouldn’t it be great to just have one login that you use on all your favourite sites, such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Google?
This is for anyone who’s come unstuck trying to get a div on a page to stay at 100% height. While it seems to be a common problem, the solution is practically very simple.