Inspired by the recent Daily WTF article, some colleagues of mine developed an ingenious solution to a server timeout problem.
A connection to a server would time out after 2 minutes of inactivity, to counteract this whilst an application was being installed they attached an optical mouse to a rotating fan to simulate movement. Genius!
It was starting to get a little depressing. I had tried unsuccessfully five times to apply as an iStock photo contributor. You know how it is, friends and family tell you they like your photos; eventually you begin to think that hey, that photo wasn’t bad.
At some point you want to release your creativity onto [...]
I am undecided whether I like these Snap popups just yet, they seem a cute way of showing a preview, an indicator of what you get once a link is clicked on, they might well be a passing fad but I decided to try them on for size, just hover over a link on this [...]
Inspired by the comments on my last entry I decided to try out their techniques with some multiple paragraphs. Since my technique was only ever aimed at single quotes, I welcome the new suggestions.
I really love the display: list-item idea that Pete Lambert but I have been avoiding last-child because of browser compatibility issues.
First I [...]
I have been meaning to write about this technique for some time now. The aim is a block quote looking something like this, with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.
To be a valid blockquote there must be an inner block level containing element such [...]
In implementing the permalink slideshow for a few projects at work, it is now improved and a lot easier to set up. You can find the most recent version of the code here: http://natbat.net/code/clientside/js/permalinkSlideshow/slideshow.js (working example)
The idea now is that if you just follow a simple structure for your html, and create an additional stylesheet [...]
You don’t think of Sainsburys as somewhere you would generally find poisonous berries, let alone nestled innocently in the spice rack. However, steer well clear of juniper, or if you are tempted use sparingly!.
When I went to university I couldn’t cook more than pasta and cheese sauce, and not very well at that. Over 5 [...]
