February 2009 Entries
Technorati Tags: CSS I had modified an out-of-box skin of Subtext when creating this blog. I modified the hell out of it but I also introduced a very nast result from copying over a couple styles from another style sheet that produced wicked results in IE in terms of font issue when comparing it to how it was being rendered in Firefox. In Firefox everything looked perfect. But the same font and same style sheet was rending so much narrow and unreadable text. I couldn’t figure out why until I came across the following line in my style sheet: letter-spacing...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Management For a long time, I have harped that code & run shops are not going deliver any business or employee sustainable results. It’s pretty much common sense to me, but a lot of businesses do not give a damn or get it. It obviously causes all sorts of BIG problems for businesses and the people they employ: 1) Unnecessary pressure. Working till all hours to produce hacks, not code. Affects all parties involved due to the expectation to code & run against ridiculous and lack of well thought out process or deadlines (developer, managers, and their families...
Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source If you are looking for a free .NET based open source blogging application, Subtext may be for you or your company. It’s a mature and established blogging framework founded by MS employee Phil Haack. My site is using Subtext and I’ve been very happy with it as compared to solutions such as Telligent Community Server which are not free and are quite heavy and complicated just for running a simple blog for you or your company. Here is the rundown of its current benefits as I’ve experienced: > Free > OpenID integration > Constantly changes...
Technorati Tags: Tools I was reading Joel Spolsky’s blog the other day as he was describing a new office that would bring a great development environment to a new building for his consulting business. As I started thinking about this, I started to think about all the shitty cubes or PCs I’ve typically had in the past. Some cubes were good, & some were simply falling apart. Most PCs just were customer service desktops or laptops at best. Now, I did not expect to have an office or the perfect PC but surely the tools to be efficient at my...
Technorati Tags: Facebook Just recently, I complained a bit to Facebook about this page of their API: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Photos.get Why? Because it was not clear to me how to pass the UserID to the HttpWebRequest in order to query all photos by that UserID. For example, if you took a look at the description of parameters for the photos.Get method call (before they changed it), you saw the following: Parameters ...
Technorati Tags: Standards These days, programmers, business owners, and managers (left brainers) sadly only look the following aspects: 1) How fast can you code it (code & run will always fail) 2) How cheap can you do it (what you pay for is what you get…be careful how cheap you wish for) 3) Numbers But most businesses and developers fail to acknowledge that this alone will not support and grow your business when it comes to your website…the very thing that sells your customer and entices them to convert. After having worked for several .coms, you come to realize...
Technorati Tags: IPhone Once again, my IPhone fails to update properly via ITunes for the latest 2.2 (on my Vista 64-bit OS) leaving me with what? Nothing left to do but fix this crash and erase of my entire fing IPhone state back to default! Here’s my screen after the update crashed (backup failed as well as restore) I got an error 14 during the update process: Notice now that my Name, Capacity, and Software properties are now set to shit. Apple, if you’re going to poke fun at Microsoft in commercials, you may want to fix YOUR...
Technorati Tags: Facebook,C# Well, it appears that not blogging lately has an obvious effect on number of subscribers. I have not blogged in about a month due to baby, work, and other things going on in my life…such as dealing with the Facebook API. If you have not tried to use that API in .NET outside a Facebook canvas it’s quite frustrating due to the poor and confusing documentation which is biased to forcing users to use FQL (their proprietary SQL or whatever), php, and FBML (their proprietary version of HTML…yea, weird). But, I’ve resurfaced now since I’ve gotten a...
