November 17, 2007 – 12:50 am
UPDATE: The wp-Typogrify plugin has merged with the wp-Hyphenate plugin to become wp-Typography! Please update your bookmarks.
Made some small adjustments to the wp-typogrify README file (mainly bug fix info). Head on over, to check it out.
November 9, 2007 – 11:44 pm
I’ve been looking into Adobe AIR recently, and this line in the developer’s manual gave me a chuckle.
[…] most errors and alerts can be handled in the normal window display order. (Please refer to the AIR end user license agreement (EULA) for information on AIR’s suitability for time-critical applications such as aircraft and nuclear power plant control.)
OK, I know they’re not suggesting anything. I mean, who in their right mind would use AIR for something as critical aircraft/nuclear plan control? But I just found it funny that it was even hinted at. You never know, of course, maybe one day. I betcha’ those nuclear plants use really old software (albeit tried and tested) that could really use a breath of fresh AIR.
November 6, 2007 – 9:26 pm
Update: Well, it looks like the post by Adam was actually really old. (Jul 2) — why is Google Reader showing me feeds this far back…? Hmm. Anyways, I still hold my opinion.
Adam Howell hit’s it right on the nose with his latest post. Archive.org’s Wayback machine should store full page images instead of HTML code. So many sites — some dating back to over ten years ago! — are borked because of missing images and broken code.
A few problems with this idea:
- What about fully Flashed based web sites, where a single screenshot wouldn’t generally do the site justice. (However in that case you could just default back to HTML)
- How to preserve navigation? Some sort of image map? Sounds tricky though, maybe offering images alongside a sort of barebones HTML would help.
- What about text? See above.
It’s too late to save the ones that have come and gone, but for future storage I can see this as very possible solution.
November 4, 2007 – 10:57 pm
A little off-topic for me (maybe I’ll talk about gaming more often though…) — but this analysis at Gamespot.com struck me as rather interesting.
Crysis: DirectX 10 vs. DirectX 9 - Features at GameSpot
To be honest I can’t see much difference between DX10 and DX9, but I’ll have to try it out myself. Crysis is a very cool game — one that I can just barely play with my 8800 GTS 320.
OK, for those who are wondering; This is really a test of the “Blog This” feature in the recently out of beta Flock browser. Which, I have to say, is a really great piece of software. I haven’t used it for too long, but I’m loving the integration of all these social networks, like del.icio.us, Flickr, Facebook, and so on. Very nifty.
Also, the Flock design team team deserves some major props, the interface theme is very slick.
In the end, it probably won’t replace Firefox, but for casual browsing, I may have met my match. (Sorry Opera, I still like you too)
November 3, 2007 – 5:55 am
I’m blogging about this a little late, but I’ll be attending BarCampMontreal3 today. I’m looking forward to it as usual, it’s always a great experience to get together with so many like minds. The presentations are (mainly) about technology and programming, and of course all the newest startups on the block.
Speaking of startups, there’s a project I’ve been working on for little while now, it’s called StickyCal — and our team will be doing a short Lightning Presentation on it today at BarCamp. So if you happen to stop by, I hope you’ll lend us an ear.
I’ll be writing a short summary of the event once it’s passed — in the meantime, have a great weekend!
