Microsoft has done a surprisingly cool thing – they have released a virtual machine for VirtualPC that has Windows XP pre-activated to make testing your design in IE 6 & IE 7 on the same machine even easier.
IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine
December 1, 2006 - 2 Comments
‘One Small Step for a Man’
October 1, 2006 -
Wired News reports that “An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from [Neil] Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’” He did indeed say “That’s one small step for a man” (emphasis mine)!
It’s a small world
June 28, 2006 - Leave a Comment
The Size Of Our World is a great visual comparison of Earth, the other bodies in our solar system and some stars within our galaxy. While the site is far from polished, this simple page does a great job displaying the enormous scale of the larger planets and stars compared to our rock and each other. Link via BoingBoing.
Remote Buddy
June 6, 2006 - Leave a Comment
Remote Buddy “gives you control over the rest of your [Mac] via the remote control and also improves the available functionality in those apps that already supported the remote control by themselves.”
Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro
May 31, 2006 - Leave a Comment
Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro – This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.
Floating books
May 6, 2006 - Leave a Comment
Adding a small stack of books to the invisible bookshelf hides the hardware, creating the illusion that the books are floating in place. Look ma, no hands!
Hi-Res History
March 8, 2006 - Leave a Comment
The National Archives provides an amazing resource in their new site the Charters of Freedom. High-resolution images of key U.S. historical documents have been made available to the world, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
Animated Live Search
February 17, 2006 - Leave a Comment
Animated Live Search is a great tutorial written by Steve Smith, which discusses how he has built his site-search. The cool thing is that the search presents its results immediately in a handy container within the current page instead of a new page. Tasty demo included.
Mixilator
January 26, 2006 - 1 Comment
The Mixilator
– The David Embury Random Cocktail Generator, provided by CocktailDB (The Internet Cocktail Database) is a great tool for those who want to mix a unique, or custom cocktail. Simply answer a few questions and the site will provide you with an individual cocktail recipe.
Vertical-Align Misuse
January 22, 2006 - Leave a Comment
Nick Gagne has posted a great explanation of the vertical-align
property which is a must read for every front-end Web developer. The examples wrap it up beautifully. Good stuff!
Stalin’s Super-Warriors
December 20, 2005 - Leave a Comment
Apparently, back in the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin “ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes”.
History kicks ass…
Overheard
December 2, 2005 - Leave a Comment
“…that’s why I’m safe – ’cause robots don’t have any fashion sense.”
The girl behind me in line at Freebirds
Your Browser Size + This Site
November 27, 2005 - Leave a Comment
I’ve implemented resolution-dependent layouts (first noted by The Man in Blue) to ensure that this site is tailored to fit the size of your Web browser. Let me know if you run into any problems with the layout.
Favatars, WordPress and Me
October 23, 2005 - 2 Comments
A while back, I posted about implementing Favatars on this site. While I ran into many small issues, I was relatively happy with the feature. Since my upgrade to WP 1.5, I have wanted to re-implement the functionality without hacking WordPress. Luckily, Joen, with the help of Jeff Minard took the work I did (which was based on the work of Paul James) and turned the idea into a plugin which is now running on this site. The plugin was extremely simple to install and implement within my templates and is a great example of the maturity of WordPress and it community of users and developers.
Return of the Photo Gallery
October 22, 2005 - Leave a Comment
As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve wanted to (re)install a photo gallery on this site in order to post the loads of bits and bytes spewed forth by my digital camera. Plogger seems a perfect match, and having followed these simple directions posted by David Peralty , I have integrated Plogger and WordPress.
I’ll be adding many more photos as time allows.
Photos, Posts and the Integration Thereof
October 22, 2005 - Leave a Comment
It’s about time to re-introduce a photo gallery system on this site, so I have spent a bit of time reviewing my options and have decided to give Plogger a whirl. While I have been excited about the release of Gallery 2, I have this sneaking feeling that it would be overkill.
And frankly, I’m just not in the mood to spend my day configuring and tweaking Gallery. Supposedly it is vastly improved, but I’m ready for simplicity. I’m ready for “it just works”. From what I have read, Plogger should be an ideal match: simple yet solid. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
Collapsible Menus
October 15, 2005 - 7 Comments
I have implemented pureDOMexplorer (pde) in the sidebar to clean up the navigation a bit. It sits upon a foundation of accessible, XHTML-compliant unordered lists and uses unobtrusive JavaScript to toggle the visibility of sub-categories. It was extremely easy to implement and saved me a ton of time. I really wasn’t looking forward to writing the script to perform this functionality. Onlinetools.org is a very handy JavaScript resource that I recommend you check out if you are developing a site.
IE 7 + IE Hacks = Breakage
October 13, 2005 - Leave a Comment
As expected, the introduction of IE 7 will wreak havoc on those sites that utilize CSS hacks to serve up different styles to IE browsers. The IE development team is urging developers to clean up their hacks. They recommend the use of conditional comments, but I lean to using server-side code to detect and serve browser/platform-specific styles as needed. In PHP I use and heartily recommend phpSniff . Now I need to research some options in JSP…