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While the latest version of Microsoft’s much-maligned browser did fix a menagerie of rendering bugs in the process of introducing full CSS 2.1 support, it unfortunately introduced one glitch that will probably have you scratching your head the first time you see it. The bug is this: If you have a textarea with a width [...]
At my current summer co-op, I’ve been tasked with setting up a wiki on the company intranet to make a variety of internal documentation more accessible, editable, and revision-trackable. As far as wikis go, MediaWiki tends to be the default choice; it’s reliable, extensible, and has vastly greater mindshare than any other wiki platform thanks to the omnipresent [...]
About a week ago I whacked the auto-upgrade button on my admin interface to take me up to WordPress 2.8. It is really nice how you can upgrade even the core system in a single click, right in the browser, without fiddling around on the server. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, every other form submission on the backend was giving me [...]
My roommate recently alerted me to the handiwork of the lyrically-named Johan Van den Brande, who apparently has far more free time and Commodore 64 know-how on his hands than myself. His Twitter system, called BREADBOX64, is coded in C and takes advantage of an Ethernet add-on cartridge to allow a completely stand-alone system, unlike Twittjr. And [...]
I have just discovered what is quite possibly the most utterly terrifying videogame in existence. It is called Eversion, and it definitely should not be played alone in the middle of the night in a completely silent house (hint: I did this and immediately regretted it). Here is a screenshot: What’s that? You don’t believe me? [...]