Posts tagged with: css

After a lot of coding, deliberation and testing, I'm happy to reveal the "new and improved" (of course it's improved, else it wouldn't be a very good "new" product would it? ;-) ) lildude.co.uk. For those who only read my site via the feed, you'll have to pop by and have a look around. So what's changed? Well, first and foremost, I've migrated from Wordpress to Habari following pretty much the same procedure I used previously and documented: Migrating from Wordpress to Habari. At the same time I create a completely new speedy theme which I've entitled "BlackForest". I ... Continue reading ►

I used to be a text editor PHP/HTML/CSS developer. By text editor, I mean I only ever used a basic editor like Vi/Vim (via ssh), jEdit (at work) and TextMate (at home) for all my development. I've tried several PHP specific IDEs, but could never find one that I felt comfortable with, and that would work with a certain degree of consistency across platforms. However, that's now changed thanks to NetBeans. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008: Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative. Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting benchmarking of these 3 popular operating systems, and believe it or not OpenSolaris (or Slow-aris as it was once coined) does pretty well. Code Instructions: Java Performance - A good read if you still have doubts about Java's performance. Java is much much... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007: The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I've seen. 5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can't say I'd have a use for all of them, but certainly a few. It's time to pay attention to Sun's x86 server biz - This can only bode well for Sun if The Register is praising it's new x86 machines. A lot of potential Sun customer's read El Reg, so this is a nice bit of free advertising.... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007: Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM's BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle. GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands - Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I know some security experts who won't be allowed to do their work in Germany now. Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests - Some really useful tools here. Imitation (from IBM) is the sincerest form of flattery - A great summary of ... Continue reading ►

Did you know that very few browsers implement the :after CSS property for the "img" HTML tag? Nope, neither did I until I wanted to use it. I'm in the process of redesigning my personal site, and one of the things I wanted to do was use CSS to place the Flickr logo after any image I include in a post that is stored on Flick. I do this already with a bit of HTML & CSS, but I need to remember to add the snippet of code everytime I include a Flickr image. By implementing it in CSS, all I would have to do is ensure I use the correct class name and it would appear automatically. Continue reading ►