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From the monthly archives:
November 2007
Been interesting to follow some of the discussions that have been raging (and even baking) over the last week about CSS frameworks: are they useful? are they to be trusted? will using them corrupt the moral fabric of society?
Much of the debate has centered around Blueprint, a stock CSS framework dealing with browser-styles resetting, fonts, typography and (most controversially) an off-the-shelf ready-made grid system, though other frameworks exist, including Yahoo’s UI Library, plus the less ambitious Tripoli CSS, and many others. read more »
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A long-time happy user of Mail for my email reading needs, I resisted the lure of Gmail for a good while, even after several early invites and abandoned trials. read more »
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I’ve been bothered recently (only slightly) that my RSS feed doesn’t honour the formatting I’ve set for my custom fields in ExpressionEngine.
Although I output a custom field that is formatted with Textile, it gets output as one globulous mass of text in most feed readers. As I say, no really big deal, but…
I found out today that I simply needed to change
<description>
{exp:xml_encode}{journal-summary}{/exp:xml_encode}
</description>
to
<description>
<![CDATA[{journal-summary}]]>
</description>
in my RSS template. Now my paragraphs, links and images display as intended in RSS feeds.
Hope someone else finds that useful.
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So I’m sat here at 1 in the morning, performing my 3rd complete system restore in the space of a week, and it’s all thanks to Apple and their lovely slew of recent upgrades and updates. read more »
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I’ve trialled Coda (Panic’s ‘one-window’ web development app for Mac OS X) a few times now, being a long-time Transmit enthusiast.
Until today, it’s never really stuck – I just find myself heading for several apps in several windows by default, it jars with my workflow too much. Particularly, I work a good deal of my time in ExpressionEngine, and while there certainly are ways of working with flat files (rather than browser-based textarea templates), it’s never really gelled with me as method I can comfortably use.
Somehow today it’s all come together for me: read more »
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I love Stephen Fry’s review of the iPhone from his Guardian column today.
I’m paraphrasing of course, but it pretty much comes down to: “Look, I like it and if you don’t you can just bugger off”.
A joy to read – highly recommended!
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Can’t believe the latest web hosting deal at Site5. How can they possibly fulfill that kind of commitment, let alone for that kind of price??!
750GB of storage PLUS 7.5TB of bandwidth PLUS unlimited websites for just $7.50 per month.
Crazyness. I for one won’t touch it with a bargepole – I’ve experienced first-hand the sharp end of what you get for cheap hosting (actually with Site5 too) and the experience still haunts me.
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I’ve recently replaced my ‘G5 + 19″ CRT monitor’ set-up with a new MacBook Pro, adding a 22″ Samsung 226BW LCD to the mix this week too.
Although mostly delighted with the new system, I was quite horrified to see bold/strong fonts looking very ugly indeed – rather like the effect of too much ink bleeding on poor quality paper. Some websites (including my own) became quite unbearable to look at. read more »
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I’ve been umming and ahhhing since Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was released a week and a half ago whether to dive right in or wait a while.
A few times I’ve nearly taken the plunge to order it (at £85) but then been put off, either by early reports of incompatibilities, or just not having the time.
So I was rather delighted today to be tipped off that I can get hold of Leopard for just over a fiver seeing as I’ve recently bought a Mac from the online store.
I’m sure everyone in the known universe knows about this, but I didn’t, and now I do.
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