June 2009
38 posts
Whip It Out Comedy: Awesome. →
This is pretty funny. Kevin Smith joins some religious nuts to protest against his own movie.
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility... →
Another online accessibility checker. It allows you to check by specifying a URL or by file upload. It took a while to run a test on a page I was interested in but I did like the output: I thought…
Firefox Accessibility Extension Documentation:... →
Another firefox accessibility checker (well, that appears to be part of what it does anyway). I haven’t tried this.
blog.mattwynne.net : Striking the Balance →
A good example of whether you do things properly up front or whether you take a little loan from the software gods and repay that a little later. It is a tough decision. I tend to err on the side of…
Can Hands: Pringles →
This ad’s actually quite amusing. Unfortunately, had I not gone there specifically to look at the ad then I almost certainly never would have clicked it. Stoopid advertisers ruining the Internet for…
1VcFm.jpg (JPEG Image, 1434×565 pixels) - Scaled... →
Wait, I didn’t hear this bit on the news.
E-mails from an Asshole →
Genius funny.
5 Useful Bookmarklets to Make Your Life Easier |... →
A google site search bookmarklet gets a mention. Clearly not as useful as my greasemonkey script :-)
Richard Wiseman - Home →
This chap was interviewed on the skeptics podcast. I can’t remember exactly what he was talking about but it was definitely interesting. Oh, that’s it, he was talking about a twitter experiment he…
Let's make the web faster - Google Code →
This appears to be a good collection of resources about web performance.
ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy →
I think this is fairly close to the way I work. Spike to get an idea of what I’m actually trying to do and then either wrap tests around it (especially if it’s a personal project) or possibly throw…
Welcome to the HiSoftware Cynthia Says Portal →
An online validation service that checks *publicly accessible* webpages against the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and Section 508 Guidelines. It’s very slow, the output isn’t amazing…
WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool →
An alternative to the Cynthia Says accessibility validator. This one includes a firefox extension that doesn’t rely on sending data to a server and can, therefore, be used to validate local/protected…
Folding UK Plug | PixelAddiction →
An awesome, and ultimately pretty simple, idea. A folding 3 pin plug.
The Ruby on Rails CMS Dilemma - aaronlongwell.com →
This is a problem that we appear to have come up against at Headshift a couple of times.
atomojo - Google Code →
Atom Publishing Protocol server. I guess this is equivalent to something like Apache Abdera. I haven’t tried it.
National Rail Enquiries - Join us on Twitter and... →
I wonder why they didn’t use natrailenq. Oh, it’s because I registered it. Muhahahaha.
Running Routes - WalkJogRun →
Jogging/Running routes website mentioned by Luke R.
HandBrake →
I just used this to convert a divx file to mpg4 for playback on my android g1. The audio played OK but there was no image. Hmmmm.
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime®... →
Required by the TubeTv youtube-downloading application. I’m not actually really sure what it does.
TubeTV - YouTube and other flash video to Apple... →
Download and convert youtube videos to a format suitable for ipod playback. It works OK but the interface is somewhat clunky.
Videora Android Converter - Free Android Video... →
Pretty much the worst looking software I’ve ever come across. Oh, and it didn’t work either.
[SOLVED] Duplicate UUID issue with vhd images... →
The problem I had when trying to register XP IE6 and XP IE7 for use with Virtual Box.
PlaneCookies.jpg (JPEG Image, 737×530 pixels) →
Made me laugh.
IE6 denial message for Momentile.com on Flickr -... →
Very neat image that greets IE6 users visiting the momentile.com website (I have no idea what that is)
Heading to the Miller’s arms for a friend’s birthday drinks
Girlfriend found weird vids I made? - Yahoo!... →
“If the program had options for making cuddling on the couch and walking through a park while holding hands videos there would have been far more of those”. Brilliant.
Just watched the day the earth stood still. It’s not very good.
NZKoz's bigdecimal-segfault-fix at master - GitHub →
Temporary/Quick fix for the ruby (and activerecord/rails) BigDecimal vulnerability.
DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal →
Post on ruby-lang covering the BigDecimal vulnerability that affects ActiveRecord/Rails.
Wondering what just popped/cracked in my back. It hurts. Quite a lot.
“prettyPrint” for JavaScript - James Padolsey →
Utility to visualise javascript objects in html. The function takes an object and returns an html table that you can render in the document to inspect the object.
Getting very angry at the Mastercard SecureCode thing. It’s refusing to accept my password and the ‘forgot password’ link doesn’t work. Grrr
Page Speed Home →
Google’s version of YSlow!
RecordNotFound bubbling thru to cucumber - Ruby... →
This was the same problem I was trying to solve. Even though the bottom of this thread links to a lighthouse ticket, it still wasn’t entirely clear (to me, at least) how to check for a 404 response…
Heading to the pool for a lunchtime swim
Playing with https://browserlab.adobe.com based on @maccman’s recommendation. It looks good (although adobe’s password restrictions suck)
Using @url instance variable in rails — GIANT... →
I just ran into this problem (creating an instance variable called @url) in one of my Rails 2.2.2 apps.