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Firefox webdeveloper survival kit
Today and probably the rest of the week I’ll have to work on a loaner. The trusty laptop has to go into shop for scrutiny and hopefully some repairs. 🙁 In the meanwhile I’m looking at this barren desktop of a semi-fresh Windows XP. I’m wondering, how am I going to cram Photoshop, Dreamweaver and…
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Using Furl for almost a year.
I’ve been using Furl for almost a year now. In fact it was Jul 23, 2004 at 23:13:58 GMT that I ‘furled’ my very first furl: Furl – How to Save. Using it on a daily basis, I collected some 500+ interesting, funny, need-to-know, nice-to-know or what-else public links. Not much compared to others, but…
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Finally, I got Pagerank!
Finally! It has been a long wait. 🙂 But it’s only a meagre PR of 1! Damn it. 🙁 It’s about time I remove my homepage then. 😉 In a weird way my homepage has received a 1, but the rest a 4. Take for instance the reference or the Google Search category. Ah well……
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Macromedia Podcast
Macromedia have had blogs and feeds for some time. And now they’ve started a podcast service: Macromedia Developer Relations Podcast A discussion of Macromedia technologies and interviews with Macromedia employees. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/podcast/ (Direct link to first podcast.) Thanks for the tip Fred!
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MediaWiki and Google Sitemaps
As I could not find an extension or script specifically for MediaWiki that would automatically deploy a Google Sitemap, I thought, why not build one myself? And in the process try and learn some PHP on the way. So here’s my result: http://www.thinklemon.com/wiki/sitemap.xml.php It’s submitted to Google as of yet. Let’s see what it’ll do.…
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A decade of WebDev.
What did people do before there was the internet? Well, they … uhm… well there was tv and board games. You had to do stuff using pen (as opposed to an ink-cartridge) and paper. And I think you physically went to a store to buy stuff. But seriously, the World Wide Web (does anyone call…
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To Watch: Microsoft to Add Ordered List support in RSS?
Microsoft has a history of inventing proprietary things. So when I found this announcement on C|Net I was a bit sceptical at first. What’s the deal? It appears Microsoft will announce an extension to RSS (2.0?) today at Gnomedex for a better support of ordered lists in feeditems. Big deal! Everybody is putting lists in…
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Turning off the ‘friendly HTTP error messages’ in Firefox
By accident I stumbled upon this Firefox somewhat equivalent of IE’s ‘Show friendly HTTP error messages’ option. Any webdeveloper should have this turned off by default. How else will you know what the problem is? So here’s how to do it: Open up a new tab (CTRL+T) or window (CTRL+N). Type in de addressbar: about:config.…
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Usability Week 2005 San Francisco
This week, from June 20 till 25, the Nielsen Norman Group is holding a conference on usability in San Francisco. This is the last in a series of conferences which were held in New York, Stockholm and London. The Usability Week 2005 Conference is: Usability Week 2005 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering…
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The end of IE 5
I’ve given up on IE 4 and Netscape 4 a while ago. Meaning I won’t do anything extra for them anymore. They’ll just have to take the page as-is, no unnecessary or fatal script errors though, but that’s where it ends. If it doesn’t work or looks horrible, too bad. So how about IE 5?…