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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 [...]
As you may have deduced from the contents of this blog’s sidebar, I am an active Twitter user, and so are many of my friends. Among people I’ve met who don’t use Twitter, the most common question is: “What is it for?” A valid question indeed, as one must be wary of investing time in [...]
A little over a day ago, my roommate introduced Twittjr to the internet at large by submitting it to Hack a Day (whose commenters are apparently a very tough crowd). From there it spread to BoingBoing and started making its way through the blogosphere, resulting in the Twittjr page gaining about 2,500 views in the past 24 hours! [...]