The device designed by Poke tells its Twitter followers that something hot and fresh has just popped out of the local bakery’s oven.
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’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; }
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.
What are the hard refresh shortcuts for a Mac using Safari and Firefox?
Quick tip
The shortcut keys for refresh / hard (force) refresh on a Mac for Safari and Firefox:
Firefox
Refresh: Command+R
Hard refresh: Command+Shift+R
Safari
Refresh: Command+R
Clear the cache: Command + Option + E
*Command = Apple key
What’s the difference between RDFa vs Microformats?
I think it’s great the idea of including semantic markup in XHTML pages is gaining traction due to that fact that Google has announced support for Microformats and RDFa.
What is semantic markup?
Semantic markup means developers use html elements to give content meaning, or context to computers. For example if we use the word “Paris” in our content we can tell the computer (through markup) that we mean “Paris” is a place in France or “Paris” is referring to Paris Hilton the person.
New ways to view news
News aggregators have been around for some time, starting with sites like Drudge Report, breitbart.com and the Huffington Post.
However, with the rise of automated aggregation, far more news sites have become available allowing you to view and filter news and its context in interesting ways.
Fit PC2 – Do not swallow!
The release of the FitPC2 brings us a step closer to a ideal workstation:
- Small (101 x 115 x 27 mm)
- Environmentally friendly (8W at full CPU load)
- Powerful (Intel Atom CPU)
- Silent (fanless)
- Cheap (from US$245)
and of course