I fixed two issues that have been problems on this site since I launched the new site back in November: Receiving pingbacks didn’t work. Per post comment feeds were broken. The first issue was a little tricky. I had a pretty good guess what the problem was, but didn’t know where to look to fix…
April, 2007
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When you get a dialog box like this: you can hit Enter to “press” the blue button. However, you can also hit the tab key to move the focus ring to another button: then hit the spacebar to “press” the button that has the focus ring around it. Enter hits the blue button, spacebar hits…
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In regards to network-mediated activation being necessary to prevent piracy, I vehemently disagree. To get people to pay for your software, you need to put some barrier in place that impresses on them that they are expected to pay for the product, and then forces them to consciously choose between honesty and dishonesty. The honest people will buy your software. The dishonest people will find a way to steal it regardless.
Emphasis mine.
Having some experience offering freeware, donationware and commercial software, I completely agree with this.
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I’ll be interviewed on a sports podcast (talking mostly baseball and golf, I think) tomorrow night. Follow the link for the call-in phone number (voicemail) to ask questions on the show.
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Software and services are very different b
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Create a nice web standards compliant web site, testing in Firefox and Safari. Test the site in IE6 and create IE6 specific hacks for things that need tweaking. Test the site in IE7 and create IE7 specific hacks for things that need tweaking. Whenever you add new features to the site, try to remember to…
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Donklephant – The Cadbury Egg Coverup – haha. LaTeX for your thesis in 3 10 16 (?) easy steps This, for those who don’t know, would be analogous to getting up and walking to the TV to change the channel instead of spending several hours looking for the remote control, which is what I did.…
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Steve has a good writeup on GrandCentral. I’ve been testing this too, and generally like it. However I’ve run into a problem that’s probably going to cause me to stop using the service (until I get an option to work around the issue). When someone calls your GrandCentral number, it rings your other phones for…
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When you’re hacking IE6 compatibility into a site, always remember to try the quick fix first: .your-class-name { position: relative; zoom: 1; } When it works don’t ask why, just move on to the next issue.
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Threw a couple of photos from the road up on Flickr.
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If you’ve been following my Twitter updates you know I was on my EVDO card quite a bit this weekend. As a result, I’ve got some knowledge to drop. 😉 Sprint’s DNS servers are s-l-o-w! Use OpenDNS and get a big performance boost. I thought I was already doing this, but Mac OS X gives…
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BarCampBoulder March 07 Boulder BarCamp Bull Durham Much? – heh. April Fools Logo Madness – SimpleBits The Gadgeteer – Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth Headset Rands In Repose: More Messy Thinking – rotation support is one benefit to the Dell 24″ displays over the Apple displays, but the Apple ones are just so purty. Why did I…
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Steve O’Grady and I have a recurring debate about package management systems and which approach is best for users. Somewhere during the discussion I realized that over the last year or two, I’ve actually begun using Subversion as a package management system. Pretty much every open source web application I use on a production server…
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You know how headphones have little L and R markings on them? Headphones are generally shaped to work best on the ear they are designed for, yet I looked around the plane this weekend and saw a bunch of people with their headphones on backwards – sticking out at weird angles. It’s really funny when…