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Inconsolata “…is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print”. It’s also rather attractive on the screen, and might be the first monospace with rounded characters I actually like.
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Gosh. I really can’t wait for that. There’s just something about tiny robots that gets me every time…
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“Designing playful IAs means taking care that you encourage discovery, support exploration and provide feedback on mastery.” Kars’ whole talk is great, really.
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DHH fills us in on the changes in Rails 2.0. Given the preview release is out now, the full version can’t be that far off. Big changes, too.
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A useful plugin for WordPress – prior to 2.2, data was stored as latin1. Now it’s UTF-8. If you’ve got a lot to convert, this seemed to do the trick.
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A quick guide to how you unlock all the other bits of armor in Halo 3.
New lick of paint
30 September 2007
So, if you occasionally drop by the website, you might notice there’s a new lick of paint around the place. Nothing too drastic on the surface – under the hood was more drastic.
infovore.org is now running on WordPress 2.3, after a long hiatus on 2.0.x (due to the way the site worked). I’m now relying way less on hacks and custom plugins, and way more on the core codebase. Tagging, for starters, is now native. That’s nice.
I’m also using categories a bit more effectively – you’ll notice some main ones on the right, there, and I’m looking to focus my writing around these topics, I think. It’s a long job to go back and recategorise four years of posts… but I’m going to do it, somehow! In the meantime, if you fancy re-orientating yourself around the site, the new-look archives might hint at what’s going on better.
There’s been all manner of WordPress jigerring, too – mainly around the way the breadcrumb-header works, and how each category colour-codes a lot of its posts.
I’m pleased with the new look. I’m afraid I’ve not tested it in IE6/7, yet, and I’m sure there will be a few rough edges around the place. Let me know if you find any. I think the only one I found was, in my tag migration, everything got tagged as “holiday”. Oops.
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“A library for finding memory leaks.” – with solid Rails integration and, apparently, graphs by Gruff.
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Wow. Just wow. Phenomenal print adverts for Lego, that manage to sum up the brand so well.
Velocity bundle for TextMate
28 September 2007
Well over a year ago, I mentioned that I was working on a Velocity bundle for Textmate. Or, to be more precise: I mentioned that I’d already written one that we were using at NPG.
A year later, I’m ready to release the bundle; you can get it from its Google Code site. But before you go there, an explanation for the delay is in order – and on the way, I’ll tell you about how the bundle was written.
Continue reading this post…
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“Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use.”
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Greasmonkey script that “reskins the Akismet spambox page for WordPress admins”. Might make things a bit better, I guess…
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A new version of the popular admin reskin for WordPress.
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A detailed explanation of the WordPress 2.3 implementation of resolving to a single canonical URL.
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“Fray is being reborn as a quarterly printed book, and we need your help.” A great move from Derek Powazek
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I like the look of this blog – content big, small, whatever, familiar aesthetic, and some lovely design touches. Giving me ideas for future overhauls (after the impending one)…
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as days pass by » Blog Archive » DOMContentLoaded for IE, Safari, everything, without document.write“it should be possible to combine the existing Safari method, Opera and Mozilla’s DOMContentLoaded support, and Hedger’s IE approach into a short bit of boilerplate code that can be dropped into your standalone script.” Nice!
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“…you have to like children… If you do not, you will never be able to treat them as individuals… the test of whether you enjoy children’s company is whether you find them fun.” David quoting Mike Baker. Fab.
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“With a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result—and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult—is that a photograph sounds like a kiss.” Wonderful New Yorker piece on the cult of Leica.