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6/3/2008 – 10:31 am

A couple of weeks ago, Les Orchard tweeted a complaint about the WordPress editor:

wordpress annoyance: textarea for editing a blog post doesn’t start until more than 1/2 way down my screen. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged editing, editor, jquery, pages, posts, usability, WordPress | Comments (14)

As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

The new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Java, plugin, Plugins, Releases, SEO, Tags, taxonomy, WordPress | Comments (4)

links for 2006-04-01

3/31/2006 – 7:27 pm

stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | cross browser multi page photo gallery

Stu Nichols’ response to the Suckerfish HoverLightbox: a simple CSS-only (no javascript) photo gallery.

(tags: css gallery photo image design web webdesign)

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged CSS, Java | Comments (0)

links for 2006-03-29

3/28/2006 – 7:31 pm

Suckerfish HoverLightbox | Monday By Noon

Great mashup of techniques to create a simple but elegant inline photo gallery.

(tags: css javascript webdev web design suckerfish images gallery photos)
Is there a “user’s manual for grownup life” out there somewhere? | Ask MetaFilter

Susan and I just had a talk on this topic recently (again). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged CSS, Firefox, Java, PHP, Programming | Comments (1)

links for 2006-03-23

3/22/2006 – 7:28 pm

Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round

The third generation of the Nifty Corners technique. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged CSS, dom, Java | Comments (0)

links for 2006-03-18

3/17/2006 – 7:26 pm

Pauker - Flash Card Learning

This might be good to have around to help our kids study for tests.

(tags: flashcards software java education memory)
Spark Fun Electronics

Cool electronic components for DIY projects

(tags: electronics hardware hacks make sensors diy projects gps wireless)
the FeedTree weblog :: Archive :: Calcium: feeding the Coral CDN with FeedTree

I once suggested to the Slashdot guys that they should do something like this. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged Java, PHP | Comments (1)

links for 2006-03-17

3/16/2006 – 7:32 pm

slayeroffice | Favelet Suite

Favelets live

(tags: favelets bookmarklets web development webdev javascript js browsers)
Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE

Interesting… Create macros to automate actions in Firefox.

(tags: firefox extensions selenium ide macros browsers)
Layout Gala

A collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download

(tags: css layout web design templates)
Mollio CSS/HTML Templates

More CSS templates

(tags: css templates webdesign web design)

By Dougal | Posted in Links | Also tagged CSS, Firefox, Java | Comments (0)

Ajaxian multi-file uploads

9/27/2005 – 12:36 pm

Over on StickBlog, there’s a nice little demo of using AJAX to provide a nice, clean interface for uploading multiple files in a web form. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ajax, Java, PHP, Programming, Web | Comments (7)

Adding the Red Cross

9/9/2005 – 2:48 pm

If you’re visiting this site directly (not just reading a feed), and have javascript enabled, then you should be seeing the nifty Red Cross donation banner in the upper-right corner of the page. Brian Alvey explains how to add it to your own site. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Charity, Hurricane, Java, Katrina, PHP, RedCross, Relief | Comments (4)

Dvorak stirs the pot

6/7/2005 – 2:36 pm

John Dvorak seems to thrive on controversy (much like the rest of journalism). His latest claim is that while Apple’s switch to Intel processors could threaten Microsoft, it also “could actually be most dangerous to the emerging Linux OS environment.”