Juicy Studio: Div Mania
More and more web documents are appearing that consist of nothing more than a collection of div elements. In most cases, better use of CSS selectors could be used to avoid overusing the div element.
Yearly Archives: 2005
K750i crashes
The best phone the the whole wide world.. mp3, radio, 2mp camera, flash (ish), bluetooth, heandfree included, usb cable included, 64MB Duo card included, Duo adaptor included. The Sony Ericsson K750i .
Excellent I hear you say.. what’s the problem, the thing keeps bloody crashing/freezing. It is a common problem according to the forums and will probably be fixed in the next firmware. Some people haven’t had the problems so I am sending mine back and gettting a new one in the hope that that one won’t crash.
Has this happened anybody else with this phone?.
Update – There is now a firmware upgrade, it not avaiable for O2 UK customers due to some GPRS issue. There should be one that works with O2 out soon.
LukeW Web Application Form Design
LukeW Web Application Form Design
A very nice intro to how to layout forms so they are super easy to follow.
Command line arguments – MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Command line arguments – MozillaZine Knowledge Base
You can use command line arguments to bypass the Profile Manager and open a specific profile
Mozilla Deer Park Alpha 1 Release Notes
Mozilla Deer Park Alpha 1 Release Notes Deer Park Alpha 1 is an alpha release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Deer Park Alpha 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community.
New business cards
As we’re (myself and Andy) off to @media2005 next week, we figured we’d better get some business cards. Andy designed them and we had to write the content. The content being mini-bios. The bio we decided for me is good, discussing me and what i can do for the potential client. If however the card was never to be seen by anybody official I reckon I would have expanded my first draft and used something like the following:
Philip Roche is a new addition to the Karova team. Coming from a software engineering background his interests focus heavily if not exclusively on all things geek and nerd.
He sees himself as an old-school hacker, not being happy until he has taken everything apart and knows how it works. He has the bushiest eyebrows in europe, he drills holes in buckets, he dances ridiculously when drunk and he is the equivalent of a headless chicken when he’s playing football.
His role within karova varies on a day-to-day basis, one day writing C#, the next up CSS creek looking for his paddle.
Phil rarely ventures away from his desk so you can always contact him at xxxxxx@karova.com or on +44(0)xxxx xxx xxx.
Skype stole my port 80
When I was writing the PHP script to import all my old blog posts into wordpress I was using the Abyss web server on my windows box (easier to set up php5 and html tidy than on Linux) I was confused as to why I couldn’t use port 80 to run the server on.
I didn’t have Apache or anything like it installed. With a bit of sleuth work I figured out that it was actually Skype that had stolen/hijacked port 80.
netstat -aon
There was no where to change the port it used in Skype preferences. I shutdown skype, started Abyss and restarted Skype and found that it chose another port. All things went well from then on but it was surprising that Skype chose port 80.
On that note, I was talking to one of the guys in the offices below ours, who does some VOIP work. He told me that the Skype protocol was not a standard protocol but a proprietary one. I was a bit miffed at this but then I came to the realisation that it doesn’t matter. It works and it works well. I now pa about 2p a minute to call my dad in Ireland, saving myself about 3p a minute.
New Site
Finally I got around to launching my new site. I was sick of it sitting on my dev server. There are a few things that need to be done but for now take it as a work in progress. At the moment you have to have min 1024 resolution for it to look any way like I intended, but I’ll sort that out soon enough.
I managed to write a php script to import all my old blog posts. I wrote it in PHP5 so I was able to use HTML Tidy to tidy all the shit markup that existed before. Let me know what you think in the comments for this post. Untill tomorrow.. Sya
Well done
Well done Liverpool, I'm not really a big football fan but that was absolutely fucking amazing…..
Musical Baton
I've been passed the musical baton by Sir John Oxton CSS.. so here goes
Total volume of music files on my computer
9GB on the my Iriver H100.
23GB on my XP machine.
The last CD I bought downloaded was
James Blunt – Back to Bedlam.
Song playing right now/played last
Embrace – If you've never been in love.
Five(ish) songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me
- Damien Rice- O – “Eskimo”
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here – “Wish you were here”
- Powderfinger – Odyssey Number Five- “My Happiness”
- White Stripes- Elephant -“Seven nation Army”
- James Blunt-Back to Bedlam- “You're beautiful”
- Sinead O' Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got – “Nothing Comapairs to you”
- U2- Achtung Baby – “ONE” (late but worthy addition to list)
As I don't know that many prominent bloggers and those that i might know have been passed the baton already so I'm just going to put the names of the bloggers/blogs I read/check every day without fail.