Firefox 3.5 overtaking IE7
Firefox hit a new milestone today, as version 3.5 overtook Internet Explorer 7.0 with nearly 22% of the browser market, according to statistics from web analytics service StatCounter.
We’ve moved!
We’ve moved to brand new shiny offices and we’re already settled and happy in our new spot. We’ve got (almost) 360 degree views, plenty of space to create, and two balconies so we can choose which one we’d like to have a barbeque on.
If we’ve tempted you enough and you’d like to come and visit us, our entrance is on Searle Lane (between Angel Devine and Catch & Kiss, or opposite Hells Pizza).
Brandcom
Evolving a brand agency’s brand online
With attention focussing on Brandcom after their recent win of the Emerging Business Award at the NZ Marketing Awards, the business needed a website to showcase their projects (pronto!). Read the rest of this entry »
We’re off to Webstock!
We’re heading North for the summer. Two of our team members Tim Klein and Lexi Thorn will be heading to Webstock in Wellington 15-19th February 2010. “5 full-on days. 13 hands-on workshops. 20 kickass international speakers. 24 must-see presentations. Design, development, mobile, usability, content, community, open data, innovation & inspiration.”
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Fixing overflow: hidden in IE for CSS
After stumbling across this problem recently in IE6 / IE7 there are three things you need to make sure of:
overflow: hidden, is applied to the div that you want to hide the text in
position: relative, is also applied. IE seems to get confused if this isn’t there
a width and height are applied to the div
e.g.
.div { width: 882px;
height: 246px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative; }
Gate 20 Two
Getting to the bottom of the bottle.
Gate 20 Two is a new, boutique wine making business situated at the base of the spectacular gold diggings in Felton Rd. Bannockburn in Central Otago. They came to Kelpdesign to develop their online presence, distribution and marketing channels. Read the rest of this entry »
Teux Deux
TeuxDeux is a simple, designy, browser-based to-do app and the first collaboration between studio-mates swissmiss and Fictive Kin.
Removing apt repository in ubuntu karmic koala
A new script introduced in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala to add apt repositories and import the gpg key is “add-apt-repository“.
Sample usage:
~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gmpc-trunk/mpd-trunk
For some reason there is no script to remove repositories that have been set up this way.
Luckily the guys from sourceslist.eu (it) wrote a script fixing this issue.
It can be downloaded either as a bash script or as deb package.
After the installation the usage is straighjt forward using the same syntax:
~$ sudo remove-apt-repository gmpc-trunk/mpd-trunk
SVN Update made easy PT2
On a previous post I explained how to build SVN updater script in PHP. This works fine on hosts that allow the webserver runas user to access the subversion binaries, such as Dreamhost.
What if not?
Our favorite hosting provider Webdrive allows our ssh-user access to subversion but not the apache runas user.
What can we do?
In order to avoid being asked to update the working files for website xyz.com every change someone made -> we need a script that executes the command “svn up” via ssh on a remote server!
This script will be hosted locally and the access will be restricted.
Sounds good what are the problems?
Everyone, who ever tried to build a script that connects via SSH to a remote machine in PHP, knows the big question:
“How can I send the password?”
The answer is: “Not“
thanks to ssh key authentication.