Some time ago, I wrote a post about version targetting in IE8, and how Microsoft were getting a beating from the standards people about the X-UA-Compatible tag, and how I personally thought they were wrong.
Well, turns out that Microsoft have listened to them and changed it so that it’s now “render this site in IE8″ […]
This week, Microsoft announced a new feature that’s going into IE8, which seems to be causing a stir amongst web developers.
The idea is that by putting in a meta tag on an HTML page, you can tell it which version of Internet Explorer you’d like it to be rendered like (or by not putting it […]
JP Stacey has written an interesting little piece on “progressive enhancement” as opposed to “graceful degradation”:-
Before, if I saw a dropdown on the designs without a submit button or some such, I’d think, well, the HTML won’t have a submit button either, so I need to build the Javascript at the same time and get […]
I decided to edit the page on Libertarianism for referring to libertarians such as Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises and Salma Hayek.
Mexican/American Actress
Austrian Economist
I can see how that confusion might arise.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to poke google to do a scan of a site? I’ve done one for someone that hasn’t been checked for 2 months. It’s non-blog and quite infrequently updated content (it’s basically an application, and I can’t say who the client is).
I’m not trying to raise ranking of a […]
Some time ago, I took a look at Zimbra, which is an open source messaging and collaboration system. It competes in a similar space to Microsoft Exchange Server.
Yesterday, Yahoo bought Zimbra. This is good news, as it’s likely that Yahoo will be able to make some major investment in this.
I don’t know what their intentions […]
Some time ago, Amazon created a tool called the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The idea of this was to harness the things that people were good at, but computers can’t. It’s a little like that Google image game.
Amazon currently have an Amazon Mechanical Turk project running for Finding Steve Fossett, by looking at small sections of […]
At the recent Oxford Geek Nights event, Simon Willison gave a presentation about OpenID. I think it’s worth a mention on its own, as sites like LifeHacker are picking up on it.
The idea behind OpenID is simple - replace hundreds of "per site" identity systems with a single sign-on system that can be used anywhere.
This […]
I’ve built a small website for a friend for his holiday apartment in Nerja in Southern Spain. It’s a 2-bed apartment and there’s still availabiility. The website address is http://www.carabeo.co.uk.
The site was built using Wordpress, generally considered more as a blogging platform, but it serves well as a site building platform, especially when there is […]
The third language that I learnt to program in was a strange creature called Application Master. It was part of ICL’s 4GL system called Quickbuild.
This was something like 17 years ago, it was mainframe based and it had limitations of an 80×24 dumb terminal.
But what was striking about it, even now is just how fast […]
RSS