written 28 Aug 2010 well into the night
Foliage. Ferns of a cousinly variety climbing chest high to what sunlight they can drink up between the plethora of varietal evergreens standing tall on our cliffside, so thick you can’t walk through them even if you wanted to fall the several hundred feet it would take to reach the sandy beach shores lining our little twisting mountain curve of the Pacific Ocean. Blackberry, mulberry bushes line the stone path that leads around the side of our home to carry us daily between these living inside of walls to the hilly driveway which will lead us off to daily adventures in state park, coastal trails and searching out stacks with land bridges in tact enough to let us climb those erosion born islands, Tristan will take this route to the space where he’ll wait daily for his yellow school bus to his first time, at 3rd grade, in a public school, as opposed to learning life’s daily lessons from the backseat of a VW Bus. The lingering sun goes twilight blue and orange against the ever-changing quilt of clouds that hover over our new beach homeland, on it’s way to some Russian morning sunrise.
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written last Tuesday just before midnight
Find old bikes, fix them up, help other people fix them up, paint them all yellow and whatnot, and set them loose into the city for no cost. Sounds wonderful. Oh yeah, and I built their website.
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written 28 Jul 2010 in the earliest morning
WordPress getting hacked is a major pain in the ass.
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written 12 Jul 2010 while the sun tried, at least, rising
Javascript applets are little pieces of javascript that can do everything from modify a website you’re on in a variety of ways to reorganizing the light spectrum of our universe to hex values, except that it probably can’t do that last bit. For all ya’ll website designers out there, and I’m talking to you Aunt Polly with your iWeb open trying to start up mycatgotstuckinavase.com/howcute, there’s a great service out there called Cross Browser Testing. I’ve already linked to it like a million times divided by 500,000, so I won’t again, except for right here, which lets you test websites in other browsers that you might not have, say, because you bought an MacBook to match your stainless steel fridge but you want to test in Internet Explorer and it’s only available on ugly computers. They offer one of these little Javascript applets that gives you one click access to their service so you can fire up your VNC client and be logged into a Windows machine somewhere in Tennessee faster than the Civil War is over (take down the flag, boys, you’re part of the Union now). Adding these applets to Google Chrome isn’t as drag-and-drop easy as it is in Firefox, though. Google decided that a Bookmark Toolbar would work best on a New Tab page, somewhat defeating the point of having a toolbar to prevent you from having to do unnecessary work. So for those who’d like to add an applet to their bookmarks in Chrome, here’s the how to.
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written 9 Jul 2010 in the earliest morning
For anyone who likes the idea of a bookmark’s toolbar and isn’t satisfied with the idea of it only appearing in the New Tab window of Google Chrome, but also doesn’t necessarily want a huge bar spanning the width of the browser (like in most other browsers, where your bookmarks are all listed below the address bar), there’s a great little dropdown solution via an extension called Bookmark Tree.
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written 6 Jul 2010 in the earliest morning
How to Get Native Gmail Support in Google Chrome
Next in my list of irks was that Chrome didn’t support web-based email clients like Gmail, instead defaulting to opening whatever your operating system’s default mail client might be (Outlook, Mail, etc.) Via extensions, we have a few solutions to this problem:
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written 5 Jul 2010 in the earliest morning
Now that I’ve moaned and complained about everything that’s wrong with Google Chrome, I figured I should provide a few solutions to the problems I’ve mentioned previously. Chrome isn’t a bad browser, it’s fast, has a great Error Consol, and thanks to extensions, most of the issues I’ve mentioned can easily be overcome. First we’ll cover:
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written 2 Jul 2010 in the earliest morning
I’ve discussed issues I’ve noticed with Google Chrome that are specifically related to using it for building web sites. There are a few other minor annoyances about Google Chrome that add up to big hassles when you combine the time they waste throughout the day, and these are likely to affect any user, not just those of us with our digital hard hats donned.
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written 30 Jun 2010 in the earliest morning
Browser testing is essential, and I use a wonderful online browser testing solution from Cross Browser Testing. It has this great feature where you can add a Javascript booklet to your toolbar, visit the page you want to test, click the booklet and it’ll open up a VPN connection to the machine / browser combination of your choice. The process is so incredibly simple that it makes browser testing as easy as Tony Hawk’s video game empire made skateboarding for posers.
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written 28 Jun 2010 in the earliest morning
It’s already annoying enough that Mac browsers render fonts all nice and perfectly smooth while Window’s machines still refuse to automatically implement anti-aliasing on fonts. Aside from making fonts (and the @font-face CSS selector that’s now a reality) look bad on every browser available to Windowleans, it comes with the side effect that Mac browsers will often render type that takes up fewer pixels on the screen itself. This can be an issue when the length of your text matters. For example, say you have a background image for your navigation bar. You want to have part of the navigation bar’s background blue while the rest of the bar is red, but you don’t want to use any image replacement technique for rendering the text itself (you might have a dynamic menu bar running off of your CMS so that when the pages on your site are updated, the navigation bar is as well). If your text renders at different sizes on different Operating Systems, you need to provide different CSS to each OS. Annoying, but doable.
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