The right crowd
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Usage stats: 56.80% Mozilla/5.0 IE trails at 6.7% Looks like we're attracting the right crowd ;-)
Archive for January, 2006
Usage stats: 56.80% Mozilla/5.0 IE trails at 6.7% Looks like we're attracting the right crowd ;-)
My bad
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Had a nasty hard coded path problem in the RubyUniversal package I created. Most things will probably have worked for most people, but badly :-) It's fixed now - I blame the fact it was 3:30am when I posted it. Also, I've removed RubyCocoa Universal as the RubyCocoa project ...
What Vista Did Wrong (IMO) and Right (IMO)
Monday, January 30th, 2006Okay, the biggest issue I have with Microsoft at the moment is probably that their Windows Vista web site doesn't work well in Safari. I mean - with their lack of adherence to standards in IE, not making something that renders okay in a "supported platform" is just downright obnoxious. ...
A case of mistaken identity
Monday, January 30th, 2006Guy Kawasaki has a funny blog entry which mentions one case of mistaken identity. A few years ago, I had organised a user group meeting at a local PC superstore and we'd gotten about 20 people milling around discussing computers. The PC superstore staff were happy because we all seemed to ...
YAML bug in Og 0.27.0
Sunday, January 29th, 2006Dumping an Og::Collection using to_yaml or YAML::dump results in a hard to track error: TypeError: can't dump anonymous class Class. This is because Collection has an instance variable which contains a literal Class. This patch fixes the problem, by storing the member_class as a String, and converting as ...
Happy Chinese New Year.
Sunday, January 29th, 2006The clever and talented PJHolden says Happy Chinese New Year and also links to his Chinese Horoscope. While I'm not sure of the source (US Bridal Guide Dot Com), it's a fun thing to look up. I'm a Water Rat, Aidan a Fire Dragon. Rats make good: Writers, Broadcasters, Actors, Advisors, ...
Missing key IM conversation
Saturday, January 28th, 20068:15 AM aidan: hi mj: hey aidan: Fintan (my son) managed to pull the left apple key off my keyboard without me realising aidan: busy trying to get it back in again mj: ouch aidan: I've forgotten the technique mj: I just place it in the right place and press firmly aidan: do you attach the white bit ...
On User Interfaces
Saturday, January 28th, 2006You know, sometimes the user interface is the easy bit. The user interface of when you're using a piece of software is easy. The user interface of GETTING TO the the bit where you can use it every day is a lot harder. It's got to be REALLY simple, the ...
Cowslayers…
Thursday, January 26th, 2006Rumour has it that Toy Story 3, as made by Disney, has been cancelled. That's entirely not surprising now that Lasseter and Catmull are now the big fromages at Disney Animation. Who knows what's going to happen now? The Pixar/Disney deal is so reminiscent of the NeXT/Apple deal. There's an acquisition ...
Ruby and RubyCocoa Universal
Thursday, January 26th, 2006There was a post to the RubyCocoa mailing list about two weeks ago, talking about how to compile RubyCocoa for Universal usage. I noticed that one of the committers on the project added a configuration switch to do this about two days ago, so here is a combined installer ...