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Comment on Paypal For Ruby On Rails by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:04:07 +0000

Don’t forget active merchant: http://www.activemerchant.org/

Comment on 90+ Mac OSX HotKeys(updated) by giambo

giambo — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:32:54 +0000

Startup keys:
⌘-⌥-O-F : Start up in OpenFirmware mode A use of this here (italian spoken)
Mouse button: Eject CD or DVD while starting up.

Comment on Author Comment Highlighting For N00bz by Dan

Dan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:59:21 +0000

After some hardcore PHP hacking, and basically making my own damn plugin for wordpress… I’ve determined that it’s best to just leave wp the way it is. I’m no security expert, and for some reason no matter what I did, it seemed that putting a rails command like

flash.now[:notice] = ’some message’

in code tags didn’t render or came up against the Safe HTML checker.

Comment on Author Comment Highlighting For N00bz by Dan

Dan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:09:50 +0000

oops. sorry that your code got filtered out…. I’m gonna go fix that now….

Comment on Author Comment Highlighting For N00bz by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:52:18 +0000

Nice, although your php code is not very maintainable but it gets the job done.

If i was doing it myself with more than one author i would prolly just do something like (obvously that is rails rather than php) and so any new admins added to the site will not require any template changes or re-deploys to display them differently

Comment on Desktop Wallpaper: Marvin on Rails by Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:46:11 +0000

I loves it

Comment on What Resolution Do I Design For? by Dan

Dan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:33:46 +0000

I absolutely agree. And although I did plenty of research and determined the W3Schools website was probably most reliable, I would like to see a similar study done with a larger sample size, and of different demographics. (web designers, sports forum viewers, viewers of ebay, facebook etc)

Comment on What Resolution Do I Design For? by Nyssa

Nyssa — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:48:08 +0000

With my recent redesign, I decided that I would skip 800×600 and design for 1024×768 and higher. While there are plenty of people still using 800×600, I think it’s safe for a good amount of websites to move away from designing for it.

I guess the best way for people to figure out whether they shouldn’t worry about 800×600 anymore or not is to check out statistics for their own website.

Comment on Make The Code in Your Blog Posts Look Great by Nyssa

Nyssa — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:55:12 +0000

Thanks for the mention of how I style my code. It has changed in colour now, though but still pretty much the same.

Nice post anyway. I like to see the different variations in code formatting.

Comment on Review: Web Design: Studios by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:40:26 +0000

I have both this one and a Flash one as well, they were only £5 each, great little reads on the train