Posts for May, 2008
Switching opera desktop to hand held mode for testing
Neat little tip I found (in my old, old blog archives) is that you can switch Opera into hand held emulation mode by hitting Shift+F11. It’ll take your site and serialize the design to fit on a small screen like on your phone: It also will honour the @media handheld stylesheet so it’s a convenient [...]Published in Browsers on Sunday, May 11th, 2008
My bad dev singing tapes
My favourite thing about having a blog is being able to look back at where I've come from and see how far I've come.Published in My life as a coder on Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Generic method return types
Generics aren't just great for creating lists, they can also be used to return strongly typed information from a method. This example shows how to use a generic return type to parse any type of strongly typed primitive from a string.Published in .NET on Monday, May 5th, 2008
Firefox mouse gestures
One of the guys at work inspired me to try a mouse gestures plugins for Firefox today. For the uninitiated, mouse gestures are like keyboard shortcuts for the mouse. Instead of holding ctrl+c, you do a little drawing on the screen while holding down the right mouse button to make something happen. For example when [...]Published in Browsers on Friday, May 2nd, 2008
JSAN open source code repository
Learnt something new today! There’s a repository of open source javascript code called JSAN modelled on the perl version. There’s a whole lot of interesting stuff on there like UI widgets, animations and AJAX. I haven’t tried any but it’s nice to know there’s somewhere you can see what other people are doing.Published in Javascript on Friday, May 2nd, 2008
