Answers.com double-click
A few weeks ago I mentioned word-selection by double-click. I have discovered that Answers.com improves on this with a rather nifty hidden feature: if you double click on any word on the page it will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The dangers of double resizing
Amazon have made a bit of an mess of building their thumbnails. On their homepage I was greeted with these: The moiré pattern of blurriness is an artifact – evidence of the fact that these "Look...
View ArticleWhat is Twitter?
Over the past few months, I have found myself in conversations about Twitter. Judging from the way people have voiced their preconceptions, Twitter is one of the more misunderstood websites on the...
View ArticleFacebook Account Hacked
Today my Facebook account was hacked. Messages were sent to 42 of my friends, with a random subject and contents of the form: hi! <recipient's first name>! <link> All of the messages were...
View ArticleThe Virtual Revolution
Last night's BBC documentary The Virtual Revolution, available on iPlayer now, is exactly typical of all internet documentaries I have seen, from the generic title (pick one of "The Digital", "The...
View ArticleFonts and font-family
Yesterday, on Twitter, I watched a discussion emerge as one person I follow pointed out that another person's hosted wordpress.com blog was illegible on her computer, with all of the content appearing...
View ArticlePuppet
Over the last couple of months I have been getting to grips with Puppet, a client-server system for applying configurations to remote machines. It is a powerful tool for network administration,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dev versus DevOps
Having spent the past few months working in ops I have learned a wide range of new skills in server and network infrastructure. I found that my skills as a developed augmented what my then competent...
View ArticleMVC Controllers
MVC as a pattern has many interpretations, but an interpretation I think is common goes as follows: Model - database abstraction/persistence View – templates Controller - all the code that interprets...
View Article