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Web design fail: Northlanders
Its amazing to still come across web design failures like this one. The image above is a screen cap from the Northlanders, a site about a series of graphic novels about Vikings. The main purpose of this site is to sell the books, either physical or digital copies. The designer, who is undoubtedly from a …
Make any printer AirPrint compatible
At home, we were missing the ability to print from our iPad or iPhones. While I’m not an OS zealot (anymore), I did upgrade to an iPhone last month, and have had an iPad for a while now. They’re very useful for casual computing, checking email, browsing. But if we needed to print something, it …
Voyager vs Smartphones
Perceptive and made me chuckle. Meanwhile my smartphone will be lucky to survive 34 months, and is only able to receive commands from Earth if I hold it out of an upstairs window… Source
Drupal finally using OOP
Finally. This is a huge step forward for Drupal. After eschewing OOP practices for a long time, its finally winning over core developers, which will make working with Drupal as a Framework easier in many ways. I copied the announcement below, but you can see that patch and discussion here. This patch is about to be committed. …
Grokking Zend Framework 2
I’ve found these to be helpful in porting a ZF1 app to ZF2, which is in Beta1 status at the moment. Rob Allen’s tutorial -updated for the beta, worked for me out of the box using git submodule. The programmers reference manual for groking new concepts, although sometimes it takes a couple of reads. Finally, looking …
Debunking the sugar hyperactivity myth
And yet, I’m sure countless parents will rather trust their own anecdotal experience. Let’s cut to the chase: sugar doesn’t make kids hyper. There have been at least twelvetrials of various diets investigating different levels of sugar in children’s diets. That’s more studies than are often done on drugs. None of them detected any differences in behavior between …
Virginia Tech professor cuts PC energy usage
I came across this link about a Virginia Tech professor that wrote a program to reduce energy wasted by computers. On the face of it, it sounds a bit smarter than the usual power management techniques that shut off parts or all of a computer when its not being used. It claims up to 30% …
Fixing Realtek ethernet driver on Linux
When my 3 year old son pressed the sleep button on my keyboard, we discovered that it actually sends my Archlinux desktop to sleep. Who would have thunk it? What was more annoying is that when the machine woke up, the network connection did not come back. Poking around in the log files, I saw …
Improved importing to bitbucket
Earlier, I wrote about a way to import an exisiting git project into bitbucket. I’ve since discovered a much easier way to do this using git’s own commands. Instead of having to use git’s daemon mode and have bitbucket import your repository, you should setup a new bitbucket repository and push to it. Assume you …