Briefly, my thoughts on the current dustup over the W3C’s CSS Working Group.
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Briefly, my thoughts on the current dustup over the W3C’s CSS Working Group.
In a spontaneous burst of productivity, spawned mostly by my complete and utter failure as a sysadmin, I moved my parent’s email account off my server. DNS Made Easy made this a trivial task.
I started having strange text wrapping problems after implementing implementing the beautifully colored bash prompt I discussed on Monday. After fidgeting around a bit, I think I’ve come up with a solution.
My jealousy of Adriano’s pretty bash prompt has been assuaged by the construction of my own, prettier and more functional prompt. So there!
When Murray and Norm solicited talks earlier in the year for the Yahoo! Frontend Summit, they somehow neglected to mention that the presentations would end up being hour-long blocks. :)
I still haven’t written anything useful about the @media Ajax conference, but here are some lovely pictures. Should be worth about 64,000 words, right?
I’m back from London after @media Ajax with some security papers for you to read, and not much else yet.
I’m looking forward to @media Ajax
My grandmom died today.
Pownce looks like a more interesting Twittr.
Singapore launched their News site today using the code we’ve been working on here in Munich as a base. Nice work!
We relaunched Yahoo! Nachrichten in Germany and Yahoo! Notizie in Italy today. Finally! :)
Curly braces in the attributes of XSLT document’s elements are interpreted as XPATH expressions to be evaluated. This sometimes causes problems…
Safari’s coming to Windows. Welcome to the party…
Blogging is hard for me, mostly because I have an irrational desire to make each of my posts “important” and “interesting”. I’m working out ways to solve that problem for myself…
Italian (and other languages) are full of single-quotes. Maybe I should escape them…
Unit testing seems like an unqualified good, I’m just not sure how to apply the concepts to my work.
I’m bored, and even though I should be overflowing with things to write about, I’m not.
I’m removing the bookmarks from this site on a temporary basis. That should drive me insane enough to actually do something about the fact that they haven’t changed since last year.
I’m (finally) hopping off GoDaddy and onto Gandi. Hopefully nothing explodes…
We launched the Yahoo! News site in Spain today. Finally!
I bought a Treo 600 on Ebay. And it’s huge. HUGE! But also very powerful and nice.
A few days ago, my landlord asked me if I was losing hair. sigh
Funny, funny coworkers can be stymied by pairing your Apple Remote with your mac.
A List Apart is running a survey to gather demographic info from web professionals; I think it could be a worthwhile enterprise.
libgd is a pain in the ass to install from source. Here’s a step by step guide in case I ever have to do it again.
James Moberg pointed out that I’m a complete idiot, and shipped DataRequestor 1.6 with some debug code left in.
Today, we relaunched Yahoo! News in the UK. Finally.
After a brief (ha!) hiatus, DataRequestor’s 1.6 release fixes many outstanding bugs. Grab it now!
It’s great to see that SSHKeychain isn’t dead.
http_load is a great benchmarking utility that gives you a quick overview of your web server’s performance. This article describes how to install and use it.
My coworkers love playing pranks on poor, unlocked computers. This is the method I’ve decided on to quickly and securely walk away from my Mac.
Configuring a browser’s proxy settings manually is inflexible; proxy auto-config (PAC) files are much more flexible.
This site is built on top of the Textpattern engine, running Markdown instead of Textile. Here’s how to make that happen.
I want an iPhone. Just like everyone else.
Carlo Zottman has a great article out on Yahoo’s User Interface blog. Nice work!