Stephen Fry on Vista
Apparently Stephen Fry is having problems with Vista in a rather public fashion. When I installed Vista as a Boot camp installation I was so relieved to see it, it was…
Ideajam – accessible?
The day after my last post, I just happened to visit Ideajam after I’d been doing some testing in Firefox with Javascript disabled. It completely threw me. Very little of…
“We Are Unable to Accept Your Lotusphere 2009 Birds-of-a-Feather abstract”
This year I put in two Lotusphere abstracts, a BOF and presentation on ‘accessible web design‘. To be honest neither abstract was very good having been put together at the…
Safari increase
It appears that Safari’s use is rising. One recent report by Net Applications places Safari usage at 7%. Although other stats sites such as thecounter.com put Safari’s percentage at around 4%, it’s…
Apple recommends a virus checker – the arrogance of some Mac users
Ok lets make this clear before anyone jumps on me. I am a Mac user. (2008 Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and a 12″ Powerbook – and a Mini at work).…
Host files
I’m setting up this new domain and I’m having to setup my own domains and since Media Temple don’t handle .co.uk’s, I couldn’t set them up when I purchased the…
24 Way to impress your friends….. Web Design Advent Calendar
A interesting idea, an advent calendar of useful web development tips. It seems to have been running for a few years but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. The…
Is the price of flexibility, complexity?
Since I’m now paying for hosting, I’m starting to install some of the open source systems to borrow good practice in my own work. Usually when I have an idea…
A nasty little change in Domino 8
We recently upgraded one of our development servers to Domino 8 and ran into problem with subforms. It appears that you can no longer include a subform twice on the…
Best and worst practices
Most of know what we should be doing, but how many of do so – Best and Worst Practices, Lotusphere 2008