Posted by: Paul on: May 27, 2009
Firefox, Opera, and webkit based browsers (Safari, Chrome) are all purported to be the shizzle when it comes to standards support, but that doesn’t mean they all render the same.
This following CSS chestnut will allow you to address any tweaks you need to make for webkit based browsers without affecting any others:
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){
/* [...]
Posted by: Paul on: May 22, 2009
I ran across some odd Subversion / Samba errors lately. It seemed whenever we added an image or non-text file to the repository, we were getting the error:
Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
In directory ‘[dir name]‘
Error processing command ‘committed’ in ‘[dir name]‘
Can’t move
‘[dir name]\.svn\props\[image name].gif.svn-work’ to
‘[dir name]\.svn\prop-base\[image name].gif.svn-b…\
Access is denied.
It [...]
Posted by: Paul on: May 6, 2009
The Present
Netbooks have been a game changer in the connected world. The arrival and staggering popularity of Netbooks has turned the PC manufacturing world on it’s collective head.
This is not an article about Netbooks – this is an article about the age that they herald – the age of cloud computing.
Netbooks have filled a latent [...]
Posted by: Paul on: April 29, 2009
There’s a great run-down on Drupal.org on how to troubleshoot the dreaded Drupal ‘White Screen of Death’ (WSOD).
This seems to happen every time I add a site to our test server – I find increasing the PHP memory limit to be the fastest way to solve it.
To increase the memory limit assigned to your Drupla [...]
Posted by: Paul on: May 10, 2007
Internet Explorer will show nothing.
Fair enough really, but don’t be caught doing this or your images, image links or image submit buttons (own up, I know you’re using them) will be rendered ‘magically invisible’ in the output.
Posted by: Paul on: February 1, 2007
One rule I’ve learnt and relearnt over the last 5 years is the need to develop xhtml and css code in more then one browser from the very beginning of a project.
Often the temptation for me has been to stick with my development browser (Firefox with the ‘Web Developer Toolbar’ and ‘Firebug’ extensions) and worry [...]
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