In an effort to familiarize myself with Xcode, I’ve concocted a couple of projects upon which to cut my teeth. Currently I’m delving into it by way of an AppleScript droplet micro-app that I’m calling “DropSync” for now. The general principle is to drop files onto it and have it sync them to a remote […]
aListApart with a timely article on using forms sensibly OnGoing on the evils(?) of <!DOCTYPE> mark-up
Call it one of those “lazy web” requests: Can someone please build a Rendezvous/Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf extension for Firefox? Porchdog made Howl with a Bonjour-esque ZeroConf plug-in for Internet Explorer as an out-of-the-box demo of the API.
Weird. Almost a week after discussing tags in an Amazon context, I see that they’ve got just such a feature in place. And it seems to be almost exactly what I was talking about, too. Can’t seem to find its release date though, doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the recent press releases.
A while back, when first exploring launchd, I mentioned the launchd editor from over at codepoetry. Today, however, I saw Lingon featured on TUAW. This is just something that they should have bundled with X.4 in the first place. Well, I’m excited. It seems to be pretty full featured w/ a UI that makes sense, […]
A comment made by False45th’s Flatlander, in addition to some other recent ruminations had me thinking lately about the coming(?) era of programmatic serendipity in our socially aware apps. This is something I keep hearing about in the context of Web 2.0 esp. w/r/t/ apps like Flickr, del.icio.us, and even /shudder/ things like Friendster and […]
The recent re-tooling here at F_D left us with some pleasing results which (unfortunately?) illuminated Internet Explorer’s PNG-display bug. My troubleshooting searches led me to the Lovitt Methods re: dealing with PNGs and IE. Tonight, I finally got it working. Well, more/less working. It always looked good in Safari and Firefox & Mozilla — now […]
Via Kuro5hin.org: “Toward Saner Version Control” – neat little version control redux w/ a pro-Subversion slant: Realistically speaking, it’s probably going to be twenty to fifty years before we have a software development process that doesn’t totally suck. Until then, your best bet is probably to use Subversion, write unit tests competently, and regularly chew […]
More on this problem with how IE has decided to (not) support PNG images… Spent a while this evening farting around with the Lovitt method and in particular with the “Browser Detect Lite” aspect of it… All my script output though was the fail-over: [rabbit] /sigh Resisting the temptation to replace it with a GIF. […]
Internet Explorer. Bane of many a web professional’s existence. And now, flexing its evil talons all over founddrama.net. If the above rabbit graphic looks “good” — then you’re using a good browser. If it looks bad (grey fields hanging off into space) then you’re using IE. Sorry about that; I’d heard that IE had trouble […]