Archive for December, 2006

Del.icio.us fun with automated links
Monday, December 25th, 2006

I have been publishing a lot of links to del.icio.us recently and I wanted to post them here too as an entry for a day. For me, my del.icio.us links provide a very accurate representation of things I am excited about or interested in.
Rather than re-invent the wheel, I decided to investigate Wordpress plugins, many [...]

links for 2006-12-24
Sunday, December 24th, 2006

YUI: CSS Grid Builder
Very interesting CSS addition from the Yahoo User Interface team. Im not so sure about the nonsemantic class names but if standardised layouts lead to more maintainable code then maybe it isnt so bad.
(tags: css yahoo YUI design)

links for 2006-12-23
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Flickr: Add referrer into comments 1.0 - 6V8 - Production of my Mind
(tags: browser firefox hacks tagging tools)

The new 100 most useful sites | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
(tags: reference tools web2.0)

Virtual Travelog | Judging the likely Success of an Ontology
(tags: semantic reference guide)

How to use OpenID (a screencast)
(tags: howto openid fortorchbox)

DerekAllard.com : Conditionally Sticky [...]

Reliably attaching CSS
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

In response to PPK’s 24 ways article I thought I should describe the method I currently choose employ to hide elements onload. I have gone through this briefly in my article ‘releasing the permalink slideshow‘. As PPK mentioned, it is important to hide elements not needed for browsers that don’t support JavaScript. The most important [...]

Spammers and their social duty
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Aww, spammers with a conscience! lovely to know that there is spam in a good cause …

Yep, you heard it here first … Phentermine and viagra help homeless children … hmm, how exactly!?

Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Recently at work I came across a particularly tricky IE bug that I have seen a couple times now. I thought I would share the solution since it wasn’t immediately obvious.
On the new Business in the community site (just launched by Torchbox) there is a timeline facility to show information about different events in Business, [...]