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7Feb/090

HTML meta data – MSThemeCompatible

Be aware this <META HTTP-EQUIV="MSThemeCompatible" CONTENT="no"> which is there to disable the Windows XP teletubby theme causes Safari and Firefox to completely remove scrollbars.

The issue is tracked in a Firefox bug report.

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7Feb/090

Localising a rails app – in 20 mins

I had an existing rails app which has nearly completed and during its development its been upgraded from 1.2 all the way up to 2.2.2. Anyway I sat down with the latest updates and figured that acts_as_paranoid and will_paginate needed to be altered but beyond that it seems it just worked.
Suffice to say I'd managed to configure the locales and make heavy use of google translate to begin adding an alternative language.
It is impressive how easily this has come together.

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22Dec/080

3 days to complete the showcase

So xmas break is coming and I've a long list of things I'd like to investigate concerning rails.

Having written a few apps now and kept up with rails.latest I'm ready for a serious test of my skills: a squash ladder in 3 days!

Should be fine its basicly a leader board with the added option of challenging users to games on a date and tracking the score to position each in the ladder.

I'll keep u posted of progress!

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26Sep/080

IPhone blogging

At last something useful for the IPhone - the ability to publish to the blog while at the coffee shop. Fab

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7Oct/070

um intersting flickr I see

Have u ever thought flickr was wonderful for showing off your own pictures but somewhat cluttered for 'browsing' around ambling in no particular direction? Well there is a very interesting website at Air Tight Interactive which enables you to type any tag (search term) your interested in and then spiral out to related tags viewing and browsing collections of pictures.