Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

There has always been somewhat of a dichotomy in the world of web professionals between design & development. Designers do their thing making pretty pictures, drinking cocktails at lunch, having social cliques, and little romances within the group. They frolic away in the meadows of Photoshop and Dreamweaver Design View, paying ...

Browser Joy

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Downloaded Firefox Three Point Oh this evening and I must say I'm impressed. Last check was a few beta revisions ago, and this is much improved in the one area I am most concerned with: stability. I have been running it all evening and she's been perfectly stable so far. PPK ...

Rails Tip No.1: Making datetime_select more appointment-friendly

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This is the first of what I intend to have as an ongoing list of Ruby on Rails programming tips. These are as much for plugging my own memory holes as they are for the general Googlejuice. Each should be a brief illustration of some technique on how to accomplish ...

Diff-ing commands on Mac

Friday, February 29th, 2008

There are several tools to compare files for changes out there for Mac OS X. I'll cover a few here. The first and most basic is diff. From the command line, it looks like this: diff -u old_file new_file Where of course old_file is the old suspected filename, and new_file is the ...

So close, and yet so far

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Microsoft recently posted confirmation that their early builds of Internet Explorer 8 pass the Acid2 test for proper CSS rendering support. This was hailed as wonderful news among web developers worldwide as a momentus occasion where we could finally adhere to web development specifications as written and as intended. And then ...