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Adrian Sutton: P Tags in Word
One thing that many people don’t realise, is that the distinction between paragraphs and line breaks isn’t unique to HTML. In fact, it’s a distinction that people have been working with quite happily...
View ArticleRoss Gardler: Surviving initial project funding
We’ve often claimed that opening up development of a project can help in its long term sustainability. By allowing new funders and participants to take an active role, even leadership, in a project it...
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Ted Husted
ApacheCon NA 2010 - depth meets breadthApache HTTPD has been the Internet's most popular web server since 1996, and the worldwide Apache Software Foundation conferences are well known for providing...
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Bryan Pendleton: Drivers versus passengers
Interesting essay/rant by Dave Kellogg on his blog about drivers versus passengers:Strategically and operationally, I think there is a huge difference between drivers and passengers that comes out when...
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Adrian Sutton: P Tags and Single Line Fields
One of the common reasons people want to avoid P tags in content is because the field is designed to hold just a single paragraph, so having multiple P tags inside the content would break the template...
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Adrian Sutton: P Tags and Flash
One of the most difficult situations to work with is when your output needs to be rendered using Flash. The HTML support in Flash is absolutely horrendous – worse even than in most email clients....
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-06
Hit The Road: Public Transport Directions for Dublin : ‘a public-transport route-planning service for Dublin city, which shows you how to get from A to B using buses, Luas or DART services. The...
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Rich Bowen: Mural done
I spent almost all day yesterday and today working on painting my son's room. You can see the fruits of my labor here.I'm a little disappointed with the Apache. I think by that time I was just so tired...
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Mukul Gandhi: XML Schema 1.1: Xerces-J implementation updates
Over the past one or two months, there have been few interesting changes happening at Xerces-J XML Schema 1.1 implementation. I feel obliged to share these enhancements with the XML Schema community,...
View ArticleApache Jakarta news: ORO is retired
The Jakarta ORO project is retired. As there were no new features or releases planned in the future, the Jakarta ORO project has been retired. No further ORO development or releases will happen at...
View ArticleApache Jakarta news: ECS is retired
The Jakarta ECS project is retired. Due to a lack of development activity, the Jakarta ECS project has been retired. No further ECS development or releases will happen at Jakarta. Users are encouraged...
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Edward J. Yoon: note to self, how to use the USB mass storage in VirtualBox
You need to change the permission from 0664 to 0666 $ sudo vi /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules # libusb device nodes SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0666" and, reboot!
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Adrian Sutton: contentEditable in Mobile WebKit
What Is contentEditable? JavaScript editors are all fundamentally based on a technology called contentEditable which makes a part of the web page become editable by the user. While there is a lot of...
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Guillaume Nodet: RemoteOBR
Over the last months, I’ve been pondering over the use of OBR, the OSGi Bundle Repository. OBR describes resources (mostly OSGi bundles) in terms of capabilities and requirements. The OBR resolver is...
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Nick Kew: Polled!
Pollsters called me this morning. Reputable ones (for what that’s worth): Ipsos Mori. Just in case it’s feeding into anything that matters, I agreed to answer their questions. She started by asking...
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Ted Husted
Keep UI discussions on target with FireShot In the beginning, we programmed computers with toggle switches and punched cards. Next came the command line interface (CLI) and today's graphical user...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-09-07
Game On : exhibition billing itself as “the world’s biggest celebration of games”, arrives in Dublin on Sep 20 at the Ambassador, on tour from its home in The Barbican Art Gallery in London. ‘Enjoy a...
View ArticleIsabel Drost: Part 3: A polite way to say no - and why there are times when...
After having shared my thoughts on how to improve focus and how to track tasks eating up time this post will explain how to keep time invested at a more or less constant level. The goal of this...
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Bryan Pendleton: All of a sudden it seems like nothing but lawsuits
Oracle sues GoogleHP sues OracleCrossroads sues 3PARInterval Research sues almost everyone.Everyone (via a class-action) sues almost everyoneWhat is going on in this world?Just looking at the HP/Oracle...
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J Aaron Farr: MacBook Addendum (Part 15: WindowShade, Logitech Mouse, New...
Since Apollo’s initial setup, I’ve made a few preference changes and additions including WindowShade X and a mouse. WindowShade X For a long time, WindowShade was one of my favorite utilities. But...
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