The Secret To Only Working 8-5 Here is the secret: learn to walk away.
I am a firm believer in this. It is the ONLY way that we can keep any sort of work life balance and at least try to get a quality of life better than tolerable. There are of course caveats to this – like deadlines etc. but in general it’s the way to go.
I found Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 on mp3Sparks and I’m loving that. I remember my first bought minidisc was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill which I loved at the time. I also bought Radio 1 Established 1967 which has some awesome tracks. Cormac @ work gave me some Tokyo Police Club songs which are great especially “A Lesson In Crime”.
Myself and the Prague team went Karting last night and then out for dinner and drinks. It was a great night – So far, Prague is awesome and the I’m afraid to say that the rumours are true – the ladies here are strikingly hot.
Me and the Prague team (minus Filip who was ill). From left to right: Me, Yauhen (Eugene), Viktoria (Vika) and Frank.
I’ve been working on a couple of plugins for the YUI editor to allow insertion of Flash Movies (YouTube and Google Video). It’s all working swimmingly well in Firefox and Safari but in IE – it just would not work. Why? because of IE’s JS engine bastarding implementation of innerHTML and pasteHTML. I know that innerHTML is not part of the ECMA spec but it is well supported across browsers and is alot quicker than document.createElement. The YUI editor uses it extensively too. I’ve also never encountered problems with it before.
My JS plugin for the editor takes and parses a Google Video URL and inserts it into the editor content area using the appropriate YUI editor action “inserthtml”. In Firefox – I get the alternate image as it doesn’t render the markup in the editor’s iframe properly and as such does not know to load the Flash plugin (this is fine and I have no problems with it). Internet Explorer inserts the HTML and then displays a broken flashmovie icon (white with red x in top left indicating it can’t find the movie specified), which is not fine. This is the markup I insert.
IE (6 and 7), in all it’s wisdom decides that that is not what I really want to insert -in fact what I really want is –
Hmmmmm….. No that’s not what I fucking well want – you piece of shit(or so I was shouting late last night). This is due to the JS engine’s HTML normalization – excuse me what?????. Very annoying. To get the editor to display the movie I had to (“shock horror”) add the deprecated embed element.
Another problem was that when submitted server side – we use a HTML parser and IE’s version of the markup would not parse correctly as the attribute values were not quoted. So I have one momma of a regex to fix the object element.It all works now and works well but it’s so disappointing that it happens like this.
In summary – firstly: beware of innerHTML especially when inserting an object element and finally: I hate internet explorer more than I ever did.
I’m in Prague for a week working in the Ammado Progue office. I’m here for the weekend and plan on taking a ton of photos… watch this space.
I studied RSS in detail a while back for Aggreg8 and for my Content Syndication presentation (also on Google Base). I’ve only just now revisted the spec and was quite taken aback that there is only one enclosure allowed per RSS item. Quite a limitation considering the wealth of media (images,videos,audio) being published and syndicated these days. There was talk about changing this in a future version or extending RSS 2.0 (using namespaces) or using mediarss but nothing seems to have made it back into the official RSS spec – or have I missed something?. Atom allows as many as you want using the atom:link element.
Well the veil has been lifted a little and I can reveal what it is I have been working on.
Ammado is a social network targetted at charities and people interacting with charities.We’ve got all the usual stuff like communities, comments, image pools, message broadcasts etc etc.
I’ve been working on all sorts but mainly the Ajax stuff and trying to get the CSS in shape.The system is still in “Beta” so go easy on your bug listings.
In a few weeks you’ll be able to see the snazzy YUI editor integration I’ve done with YouTube and Google Video plugins, as well as an ajax image gallery and upload feature. Awesome!!! I hear you say.
If you’d like an invite email me
I’ve started to read Calvin and Hobbes again over @ gocomics.com I used to read it when I lived over in Norway – only there is was called “Tommy og Tigern”. It still cracks me some of the stuff he comes out with. The best image from the last week was this ->
What an evil little fucker….
After nearly 19th months together, I’ve decided leave Volvo and move on. We had some great times together. She was a real firecracker, once her revs got high enough – she’d compete with anything else I know.
Thank you for the good times my love.
I’ve got more details over at carzone.ie
Myself, Tommy Danger (real name Conor), The ShakeSheik (real name Brian), Scottish Kev (real name Kev), Dooley (real name Colm) and my brother flew over to Edinburgh for the New Zealand v Scotland game (part of the rugby world cup). It was bloody mayhem. We ran amok. I had not been on a rugby weekend before and I highly recommend it, everybody and I mean everybody is up for a laugh. We were playing rugby in the pubs and in the streets. Singing and dancing with all nationalities. I’ve not laughed or had that much fun in a very long time. Come on Scotland!!!!
There’s a video too – Tommy Danger entertains Ryans.
As you can see – we had alot of fun 😉