Category: 'General'
Watching the sea-level rise, virtually.
Posted on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Here’s an interesting Google Maps implementation: Flood Maps. What if the sea-level where to rise? .. Because the polar ice-caps are melting at an alarming rate … Would you be able to keep your feet dry? Now you can find out for yourself. (And maybe decide about that piece of real-estate you’ve layed your eyes [...]
Posted in General, Google, Internet | 1 Comment »
Meteor falls on YouTube
Posted on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
While I’m still working on the SEIS database update for Google Earth, I thought I’d just entertain you with some spectacular stuff available on YouTube. It turns out that the number one video site on the web has some interesting footage of meteors. Here’s a short list of what I’ve encountered thus far.
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ThinkLemon Reset: Part 1.1 – Code Cleanup and Validation
Posted on Saturday, June 17th, 2006
After having thrown out the CSS last month, I’ve been messing with the templating code that make up this WordPress theme. Though the default Kubrick theme is great, it took me a while to get all bits sorted out. Some cleaning up, re-arranging, looking up, inline documenting, debugging, etc. led to what you’re looking at [...]
Posted in Design, Development, General, Reset, ThinkLemon, Webdesign, WebDev | 3 Comments »
Major Google Earth Update (Maps to follow)
Posted on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Read all about it on the Official Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth: We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? [...]
Posted in Desktop, Development, General, Google, Google Earth, Internet, News, Search, Utilities | 3 Comments »
WordPress Posts, Pages and pagination
Posted on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
While rummaging through the WordPress theme code I stumbled upon this vague function call ‘link_pages()‘. Not knowing what is was or did, I looked it up in the documentation. And it seems that WordPress can paginate (lengthy) posts out-of-the-box. Great! But while the difference between a post and a page can be confusing for WordPress [...]
Posted in General, Reset, ThinkLemon, Utilities | 15 Comments »
Get Firebug!
Posted on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
if ((bWebDeveloper || bWebDesigner) && bFirefox) { try { var oNewExtension = new cExtension(); oNewExtension.fetchXPI = fnFetchURL(“www.getfirebug.com”); oNewExtension.installXPI(); if (oNewExtension.success) { console.log(“Firebug installed successfully.”); var oFurtherOptions = getElementById(“divTellUser”); oFurtherOptions.innerHTML = “About FireBug” oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += “FireBug Screencast” oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += “FireBug Overview” } } catch(e) { throw “Next time Gadget, next time!” // Take a look at [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet, Intranet, Utilities, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Visualising the DOM for fun
Posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2006
The Document Object Model, or DOM as it is known better, is usually visualised as a tree. For instance with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar or DOM Inspector / Firebug for Firefox. But there are other more fun ways, like Aharef did.
Posted in Development, General, Internet, ThinkLemon, Utilities, WebDev | No Comments »
ThinkLemon Reset: Part 1 – Bye bye CSS
Posted on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Once in a while one’s got to do the opposite. Instead of filling this site with cruft like CSS and scripts, I felt like going back to the roots. Plain ol’ HTML and getting it right, once and for all… * I don’t know if spring has anything to do with it, but it seems [...]
Posted in Design, General, Reset, ThinkLemon, Webdesign | 7 Comments »
Pizza in Europe?
Posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Lately there has been some news surrounding Google Maps. As a result I’m obliged to sum things up. ThinkLemon style, surely. First, it was called Google Maps (beta), then Local, and now Maps again. Probably because everyone was calling it Maps anyhow. The Google Blog explains more. Second, Maps has expanded to continental Europe. Finally [...]
Posted in Development, General, Google, Internet, Search, Utilities | No Comments »
Firefox ACID2 compliance on its way
Posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Now, after Safari, iCab, Konqueror & Opera 9 beta, it’s Firefox’ turn to comply with the ACID2 test. David Baron has built a special development version of Firefox that fixes some rendering issues that kept it from complying before. You can see the screenshot of ACID2 in action on his Flickr account. Now, why is [...]
Posted in Browsers, Development, Firefox, General, News, Webdesign, WebDev | 2 Comments »