Tweaking My Ratings Plugin: Pennies For Your Thoughts [Update]
If you’re a b-movie critic and blogger, you should be using my Ratings Short-tags plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to easily insert star or heart ratings that look like this: ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
At the time of the plugins release, a requested feature was the ability to display a list of posts that contained similar ratings (for [...]
Is There An “OSX Preview”-Like App For Windows?
Working on the girlfriends Mac, one of the features about OSX I’ve come to like the most, is the Preview app. It works quite simply: you drag a bunch of files on to the Preview icon, located in the dock. The result, your selected files are added to a “drawer” in a preview window, where [...]
The Quest For A Sturdy Laptop
A coworker and myself are looking for laptops in the “desktop replacement” class. That means fairly fast computers sporting plenty of RAM and dedicated graphics cards. That means prices in the 1500 ranges. These are all Fisherprice plastic concoctions, however, and therein lies the problem. Can it really be true, that only Apple makes truly [...]
Converting SVG To PNG On The Fly: How? [Update]
Remember SVG? Pioneered by Adobe back in the day, Scalable Vector Graphics were to compete with Macromedias Flash. They never could (and so they bought them), but the result — the SVG standard, is interesting for HTML / CSS uses.
Did You Enjoy Lost “The Constant” As Much As I Did?
The most recent episode of sci-fi island adventure Lost is, in my opinion, the best episode of a television show, ever. If you haven’t watched it yet (or followed the show), now’s the time to do so. If nothing else then to not be spoiled here. Lost season 4 episode 5 is a re-interpretation of [...]
Noscope Prints: Questionnaire
Six years ago I started doing illustration-work for the heck of it. Five pieces a month kept the mind-doctor away. Come May this year, I stopped that and instead started brewing and concocting devious evil schemes: I would love nothing more than to sell you prints. Deliciously crafted and printed representations of hard work, blood [...]
Sidebar: Left Or Right?
Lots of modern websites have sidebars. The sidebar is the smaller of a two-column webdesign, usually used either for navigation or for secondary information. Sometimes, it’s on the left of the main column, sometimes it’s on the right.
Which is better?
This is something I’ve been flip flopping on for quite some time now. I decided to [...]
WP-Cache Not Clearing When Comments Are Posted! Anyone Else Experiencing This?
I have struggled with this for so long now, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what the problem is. So I turn to you, dear reader. In order to take off some of the load on my database server, I’m using the excellent WP-Cache plugin. The plugin automatically writes static HTML [...]
One Window Web-Development?
With last weeks comment scare, I think hope it’s now safe to use the comments again. Right now I’m wondering what web development app(s) my esteemed readers are using for their coding needs. Just this morning, John Gruber wrote about Coda, a so-called “one window web-development app”; meaning: one app to browse, code & upload [...]