I'm working on a custom skin for phpBB, and by using sensible HTML and CSS I've got something that looks good on the desktop and on IE Mobile. I use Javascript to pull in all the pretty stuff like avatars on the desktop version; mobile devices (and IE6, which gets the mobile stylesheet) never need see it, and the site is usable without it.
My skin is actually usable on a handheld, though it still needs some work. phpBB's own is a complete mess, and there are some things that (like sending PMs) that you just can't do because the layout's so horribly broken.
The forum members who tested it, on iphones, crackberries and all sorts of devices, reported that these all displayed the mobile version fine. It took some crafty stylesheet switching, which I nicked from somewhere, but it can be done.
The fly in the ointment is the crackberry - I have to do PHP parsing in the template specifically to catch it, and seems every different retailer's version of every kind of crackberry has different settings for CSS (including "disabled"). As a developer, there's nothing I can do about that - and it's completely boneheaded.
I'm on a course of UVB light therapy (for eczema). Whenever I'm about to get cooked, the nurse says some number (which I believe, from looking at the machine, is Joules per square centimetre) and then an approximate translation into minutes and seconds. It usually went up by about 30 seconds or so each time, at the beginning of the treatment. So when I went from 4:48 to 6:20, you're damned right I queried it! It was, in fact, OK - something to do with the behaviour of the tubes at higher doses that I didn't understand, and the first number went up by the usual 0.1 - but I really didn't fancy the sunburn I'd have got if it had been wrong. So I asked. It's not hard to do, if you've been paying attention.
Usability guidelines - the link text should be meaningful on its own. IIRC, some browsers will present you with a list of links, complete with text. I'm sure Slashdot used to do this at the top of articles, too.
"This article" tells you only that there's an article. "Programs that trigger the bug" is a clearer description of what you'll find.
That said, I'd have re-written the submission to avoid using "This article" if I wasn't going to link on it.
Come on, guys...
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I maintain several open source projects, and there are many reasons why I might not include a patch: I may not understand it, I may not want to maintain it, it may break other features, it may conflict with future changes, it may violate the coding standards, the license may be unclear or incompatible, the patch may have been generated incorrectly, etc.
But you'd still have the courtesy to send a short email to that effect, wouldn't you?
I doubt it'll be supported straight out of the box, but when someone hacks this thing to allow the camera and projector to work at the same time, I expect to start seeing all kind of creative shots.
European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe.
It is indeed stored in a tank. What tends to happen, as I understand it, is that the drain valve leaks and all that lovely blue liquid builds up behind the hatch. It freezes at altitude, expanding and eventually opening (or removing) the hatch. On descent, it starts to thaw, and the whole block falls out.
If I let this kind of nonsense out into production, I'd be strung up by my genitals.
As far as a "fix" goes, in Firefox with Firebug installed, I right-click the offending image, click "Inspect Element", and delete a character from the background-image url.
In about six months I'll have a month's salary saved, but there'll still be debt for a while after that. I've always had it hammered into me that paying off debt should come before saving - Motley Fool, for example, is very big on it - and that's what I've always done. It's great, right up until you lose your job and have no savings. I'm not coming out the other end of this contract without something to tide me over for a month or two, at least.
As to where it's all going, I can't identify any one thing. I suspect it's being thrown away on "little treats" - things like grabbing a Starbucks instead of taking a flask of much better coffee into work. I'll be looking at this in more detail. What I should really do is go back to what I did when I first came out of university: set up a second account with just an ATM card and pay myself weekly. That worked amazingly well.
We try very hard to live well within our means. We've got a very affordable mortgage on our house. We bought a used car a few years back and paid for it in full, with cash. We don't have a lot of expensive hobbies. We don't have a pile of debt. But if I lost my job we'd be pretty much screwed.
I'm much the same (though still clearing off a mess I got myself into at university). I don't even have a TV. I bought a studio flat that cost a very reasonable 1.5x salary. I'm in negative equity, one paycheck away from bankruptcy, repossession, and all that fun stuff, and if I lose my job I'm screwed.
My friend has the house mortgaged up to something like twice its value, has a very shiny new car, every toy in the house you could wish for, etc. He's in negative equity, one paycheck away from bankruptcy, repossession, and all that fun stuff, and if he loses his job he's screwed.
Who's the smart one? I really don't know. Since we're both just as buggered when the money stops coming in, and I worry just as much as he does, maybe the clever thing to do is to get in debt up to your eyeballs, have all the fun you can, and wash your hands of it when the music stops. *shrug*
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I wouldn't have put it quite as bluntly, but yes.
I'm working on a custom skin for phpBB, and by using sensible HTML and CSS I've got something that looks good on the desktop and on IE Mobile. I use Javascript to pull in all the pretty stuff like avatars on the desktop version; mobile devices (and IE6, which gets the mobile stylesheet) never need see it, and the site is usable without it.
My skin is actually usable on a handheld, though it still needs some work. phpBB's own is a complete mess, and there are some things that (like sending PMs) that you just can't do because the layout's so horribly broken.
The forum members who tested it, on iphones, crackberries and all sorts of devices, reported that these all displayed the mobile version fine. It took some crafty stylesheet switching, which I nicked from somewhere, but it can be done.
The fly in the ointment is the crackberry - I have to do PHP parsing in the template specifically to catch it, and seems every different retailer's version of every kind of crackberry has different settings for CSS (including "disabled"). As a developer, there's nothing I can do about that - and it's completely boneheaded.
Hear hear.
I'm on a course of UVB light therapy (for eczema). Whenever I'm about to get cooked, the nurse says some number (which I believe, from looking at the machine, is Joules per square centimetre) and then an approximate translation into minutes and seconds. It usually went up by about 30 seconds or so each time, at the beginning of the treatment. So when I went from 4:48 to 6:20, you're damned right I queried it! It was, in fact, OK - something to do with the behaviour of the tubes at higher doses that I didn't understand, and the first number went up by the usual 0.1 - but I really didn't fancy the sunburn I'd have got if it had been wrong. So I asked. It's not hard to do, if you've been paying attention.
...borked!
We are killing people, and we aren't trying hard enough.
Hot single NSA girls, you have my number.
Usability guidelines - the link text should be meaningful on its own. IIRC, some browsers will present you with a list of links, complete with text. I'm sure Slashdot used to do this at the top of articles, too.
"This article" tells you only that there's an article.
"Programs that trigger the bug" is a clearer description of what you'll find.
That said, I'd have re-written the submission to avoid using "This article" if I wasn't going to link on it.
...you have claws, use them.
I maintain several open source projects, and there are many reasons why I might not include a patch: I may not understand it, I may not want to maintain it, it may break other features, it may conflict with future changes, it may violate the coding standards, the license may be unclear or incompatible, the patch may have been generated incorrectly, etc.
But you'd still have the courtesy to send a short email to that effect, wouldn't you?
Fingerprints, great... Might as well get a permanent marker and scrawl my password all over my laptop!
I'll try anything once! Thanks for the link.
I was already itching - stupid eczema.
Now hopefully these people will hurry up and find a way to turn this off. I can't wait.
I doubt it'll be supported straight out of the box, but when someone hacks this thing to allow the camera and projector to work at the same time, I expect to start seeing all kind of creative shots.
Look on the bright side. You have a child, so clearly your injection attack was successful...
72, but they're all Slashdotters.
...sex offenders start a mass SMS-sending campaign...
They aren't Us, they're actually zeros with the tops lopped off.
How do you tag this !jacko without it auto-completing to !jackoff?
Extra loud ringtone?
Buy shares in forklift manufacturers.
That comes down quite rapidly, though, once you start specifying things like her hair colour... ...or so I'm told...
European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared with US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe.
No IE? Surely you mean "because"? :)
It is indeed stored in a tank. What tends to happen, as I understand it, is that the drain valve leaks and all that lovely blue liquid builds up behind the hatch. It freezes at altitude, expanding and eventually opening (or removing) the hatch. On descent, it starts to thaw, and the whole block falls out.
If I let this kind of nonsense out into production, I'd be strung up by my genitals.
As far as a "fix" goes, in Firefox with Firebug installed, I right-click the offending image, click "Inspect Element", and delete a character from the background-image url.
The advice has to be worth at least what I paid for it ;) I like the approach.
Food for thought - thanks.
In about six months I'll have a month's salary saved, but there'll still be debt for a while after that. I've always had it hammered into me that paying off debt should come before saving - Motley Fool, for example, is very big on it - and that's what I've always done. It's great, right up until you lose your job and have no savings. I'm not coming out the other end of this contract without something to tide me over for a month or two, at least.
As to where it's all going, I can't identify any one thing. I suspect it's being thrown away on "little treats" - things like grabbing a Starbucks instead of taking a flask of much better coffee into work. I'll be looking at this in more detail. What I should really do is go back to what I did when I first came out of university: set up a second account with just an ATM card and pay myself weekly. That worked amazingly well.
We try very hard to live well within our means. We've got a very affordable mortgage on our house. We bought a used car a few years back and paid for it in full, with cash. We don't have a lot of expensive hobbies. We don't have a pile of debt. But if I lost my job we'd be pretty much screwed.
I'm much the same (though still clearing off a mess I got myself into at university). I don't even have a TV. I bought a studio flat that cost a very reasonable 1.5x salary. I'm in negative equity, one paycheck away from bankruptcy, repossession, and all that fun stuff, and if I lose my job I'm screwed.
My friend has the house mortgaged up to something like twice its value, has a very shiny new car, every toy in the house you could wish for, etc. He's in negative equity, one paycheck away from bankruptcy, repossession, and all that fun stuff, and if he loses his job he's screwed.
Who's the smart one? I really don't know. Since we're both just as buggered when the money stops coming in, and I worry just as much as he does, maybe the clever thing to do is to get in debt up to your eyeballs, have all the fun you can, and wash your hands of it when the music stops. *shrug*