Archive for September, 2008
A CSS3 resource
While you could go over to the W3C and peruse its documentation, it’s always nice to see information being presented in a more user friendly way than dry specification documents. I know that CSS2.x adoption is still bumping along – IE comes to mind as a laggard – but CSS3 has some nice additions that [...]
Web Development
position: static?
CSS positioning seems to be becoming a nightmare when it comes to IE6 support. While I am aware that the likes of 37signals have stopped making their products work with it, there remain a lot of people who stick or are stuck with the old retainer. I am one of the latter because of the [...]
Web DevelopmentDean’s FCKEditor for WordPress plugin, a wish list
I must admit that I have a liking for FCKEditor over and above what comes as standard with WordPress and the FCKEditor for WordPress plugin has been addressing my preference for a while now. However, its most recent release dates from last April and its integration with WordPress 2.6.x has been leaving a lot to [...]
Things that I like about VirtualBox OSE
Now that VirtualBox 2.0 is out with its 64 bit operating system support among other things, the version included in Ubuntu 8.04, OSE 1.56, is looking that bit older. Nevertheless, there remains a lot to like about the version that I have been using. For one thing, its shared folders functionality doesn’t trip up Photoshop [...]
VirtualisationA compendium of CMS’s
Content Management Systems seem to coming two a penny these days so it’s useful to have someone go and create some kind of list for us all. That’s what BLORGE seems to have done. There’s also OpenSourceCMS if you want to try a few of them out.
Removing files for which you have no write access from the GNOME Wastebasket in Ubuntu 8.04
It might be that GNOME contains a small trap awaiting the unwary: moving files for which you have no write permissions to the Wastebasket using Nautilus. This happened to me in Ubuntu 8.04 and I couldn’t clear the Wastebasket using the normal means. To resolve the situation, I thought of finding where the Wastebasket in the [...]