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Archive for September, 2008

Autocomplete & even better twitter keys

So I've been going a bit greasemonkey mad of late, and with the recent release of Twitter Keys I quickly found myself wanting something like tab completion for the twitter keys. A few hours of weekend playing later, I've got automatic Twitter keys (or optionally tab completed). But I've also decided to take it a [...]

Twitter Upgrades via Greasemonkey

Quickly following on from my greasemonkey script yesterday, Josh Russell, local Brightonite, updated his (and Dave's Twitter search script. So I've taken it upon myself to a) upgrade his script to work on all pages, not just the home page, and meld together my Twitter scripts with his moving towards (in my best deep Jerry Bruckheimer [...]

Tweet offline & better locations

If you follow me on Twitter you'll have seen that I've been moaning a bit lot about using Twitter as an alternative to email or IM. Rather than bitch and moan the whole time, I've made myself a solution: I can now pull a tweet in to an email and thus continue/create the conversation offline. In addition, [...]

Big Three Oh - happy birthday to me!

I turned 30 years old, much to the dismay of my real world colleagues - who still think I'm 17! Perhaps if I shave my beard off...

The Silky Smooth Marquee

As we abused the Internet back in the 90 with tags like <blink> and <marquee> the last 10 years have seen the gradual extinction of these proprietary tags until we did full circle and the marquee effect appears in CSS 3. There's actually a very strong business case and requirement for the marquee tag - since [...]

dConstruct 08

dConstruct 08 is over for another year - and another year of great talks. This year was much more focused on the theoretical than practical, which in retrospect, last year appealed to skills I was a lot more familiar with. That being said, this years talks were superb, and stimulated a lot of conversation and [...]

Safari show bug

This is probably the first time I've come across a bug in Safari that's comparable in bizarreness to IE bugs. The symptoms of this bug are that when you set the CSS display property to block from none the element doesn't appear. In fact, it has a height of zero.