The harvest of an evening in a hotel with Web Designer magazine
- Boone Oakley
- Fabrik Agency
- 26000 Vodka
- Julian Perretta
- Joomla!Days I
- Joomla!Days II
- Joomla 1.5 core overrides
- Joomla template overrides II
- CSS Sprites I
- CSS Sprites II
Updated to WordPress 2.8
I just updated to the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8, i.e. Baker. Here’s a nice overview of the latest additions. One of the new features I really like is the ability to load JavaScript in the footer of your theme.
So many rich text editors out there, but which one to choose?
There are loads of rich text editors out there. The question is which one to choose? This article might help make you decide.
Collecting dust
Everything collects dust. Including your CSS. Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox add-on that helps finding your unused CCS Selectors in style sheets. Handy when optimizing and debugging.
Chrome Experiments
To show us what can be done with Javascript (and Chrome) Google has launched Chrome Experiments. A collection of unusual experiments that also work in other (good) browsers.
Fiddling around with redirects
On my dev server I’ve been moving things around a lot, meaning that some of my pages are simply not where they used to be. Wanting to preserve the old URLs, so people or search engines won’t get 404 File Not Found errors, I stumbled upon a great article by Steven Hargrove. This article explains quite well how to go about doing so, with the use of just about any language you can think of.
Norma’s
I’ve meaning to dedicate a few words to this for a while now, but time hasn’t permitted me to do so. I’ve been off on a few courses and have started a few new projects, which have kept me somewhat busy.
So, what have I been meaning to write about? Lots of things, but mainly about a great new place I found in New York, plus some of the stuff Google has been in news for lately. One of those things was their update of Google Maps (now also available in the Netherlands). It’s still in beta, but they’ve been adding loads of (AJAX-powered) stuff – like My Maps (which lets you make your own personalised maps and, if you wish to do so, share them with the world) for instance. This makes it really easy to use, whereas before you had to have some understanding of their API.
So I thought, why not combine the two? I’ve fiddled around with it for a bit and here goes nothing.
Norma’s is really great for breakfast and best of all is the fact that you can have one until three o’clock in the afternoon! It’s probably not a good idea to have it there every day of your stay, unless you don’t mind gaining a few pounds. Since it’s not customary for hotels to include breakfast in their prices I tended to just have nothing or some pastry from Starbucks with my daily dose of caffeine, but now I have an alternative. There is one more breakfast place I want to check out, but that’ll have to wait till September.
Thin is always in
Today I did some experimenting with day 17 of 24 days. I’m using it for the main site and will do so for the new theme of this blog when I’ve chosen a colour palette (with the aid of Dave Shea’s article).
Posts
It might seem a little quiet here of late, but that’s hardly the case. I’ve decided to keep more personal stuff private. Instead of protecting entries with a password I decided to look into other solutions. Anything of which I feel shouldn’t be shared with the general public is available only to friends. It’s a plugin I found via one of the blogs I visit quite regularly. I’ll be tinkering with it a little bit before I allow people to register.
The new thang: square CSS corners
A must-read instruction on how to make beautiful square corners.