57 minutes agojust added the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to a site. Died a little inside, but it's easier than fixing whatever is wrong with Cufon in IE8.
57 minutes agojust added the X-UA-Compatible meta tag to a site. Died a little inside, but it's easier than fixing whatever is wrong with Cufon in IE8.
Here’s the super-simple script you need to access the iPhone’s current location via JavaScript.
I really want to download and read this, but I don’t know when I’m going to find the time. Someone needs to make an iPhone app that lets you read PDFs.
I really like this idea, and will be implementing it at work first thing Monday. Well, after coffee anyway.
Bookmarking this excellent page that has saved my life this morning, when an entire domain magically vanished from a MediaTemple box.
The one thing pushing me in the direction of a native app was the lack of integration with location-aware data, but it seems that is no longer a problem with iPhone 3.0.
Yet another long list of resources from Smashing Magazine.
A nice round-up of the various pieces of CSS3 that you can use currently, with examples and browser support details.
Fifty ways to leave your lover persuade people to do what you want, some of which are certainly applicable to web/UX design. (via Kottke)
A great article from A List Apart on database design and optimisation.
An enormous collection of icon sets from Smashing Magazine.
I use Smush.it a fair bit to kill the alpha channel on PNGs, but it’s useful to have some alternatives bookmarked.
What a great idea. A summary of the various places around the web where you can find public domain photography, free for use in your designs.
I’ll be installing the PHP reference, and probably the FTP On The Go app as well, although I managed to navigate Plesk and PHPMyAdmin with no problems the other day which was slightly surprising.
Detailed commentary and recommendations for creating accessible web forms, with reference to the relevant parts of WCAG 2.0.
Turns out I’ve been doing it totally wrong. I really should start making more use of Analytics’ campaign and source tracking features.
A pizza with the radius z and thickness a has the volume pi*z*z*a
Christian Heilmann
Not to knock other places, but Hollywood really has the nicest prostitutes. Nicest prostitutes in the sense that they will take your photo in front of a restaurant you need as an answer for a scavenger hunt. True, my prostitute criteria are non-standard.
John August on Twitter
I don’t burn easily, I don’t find heat oppressive, I don’t suffer from hayfever and I don’t sweat any more than the average overweight IT professional.
Staying in for the summer | Joeblade
Researchers report that when dealing with identity goals — that is, the aspirations that define who we are — sharing our intentions doesn’t necessarily motivate achievement. On the contrary, a series of experiments shows that when others take notice of our plans, performance is compromised because we gain “a premature sense of completeness” about the goal.
To score, keep your goals to yourself (via Kottke)
People would take decibel readings of the fans and disk drives and they’d take temperature readings and publish them online for comparison like this was a normal thing to do with your console.
The Xbox and I, revisited
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