I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
Google and MSN search comparison – Interesting, if nothing else.
Ironically, use of mod_rewrite and other such utilities to build “friendly URI’s” to provide more keywords for engines to grip on IIS platforms is far more complicated than with Apache!
Anyway, regardless, I’m sticking with Apache for the time being…
We’re going horrendously overboard and loving every minute of it. The e-voting interface is primed, redesigned, and ready, we’re planning live vision with instant replays of acts, professional voiceovers courtesy of Adrian the music nerd, and more than a few other surprises — and that’s just the technical side of things!
There’s a lineup of more than 15 talented, not-so-talented-but-amusing, and amusingly bad performances, and tickets are just $5 at the door! Get to the BBC Auditorium on Thursday for a night of great entertainment, with all proceeds going to Assistance Dogs Australia.
Macromedia’s Dreamweaver WYSIWYG mode is a bundle of fun, as base10solutions has just discovered during the development of a website that was going to be maintained by the client using Dreamweaver.
The layout was pixel perfect in most browsers using CSS — screenshots of both renderings follow (WARNING: Not for the faint hearted!)
Here, taken from a normal web browser (it’s Firefox, but renders the same in IE, so whatever):
And here, in (apparently) WYSIWYG mode:
The code was exactly the same.
Hmm. I think our 2001 Gateway laptop is finally past it. About a fifth of the keys on it have died, including the space bar. I plan on shaking it lots tomorrow in the hope that something will jiggle back into place, but optimism was never my strong point…
Nothing physical.
I just re-discovered CSS’s background-position property. I don’t use it anywhere near enough, and really should. It can do loads of useful stuff – a good example being the navigation on Dave Shea’s mezzoblue.
Anyone else been guilty of property neglect lately?