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Name-and-shame

The company I work for is looking to recruit again. As we have a very basic form of peer interviews as part of the recruitment process, a number of CVs end up in my Inbox.

One of the applicants listed the following under a list of duties with his current employer: “HTML validation to at least [...]

ie6 No More!

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Considering the fact that upgrading to a “better browser” (even if you decide that this is simply IE7 or IE8) is so simple, free – and ultimately beneficial – is it not time for the community to start being more direct in their attempts to persuade users to [...]

SEACOM: Getting South Africa connected

I always wanted to know where the undersea cables that connect us to the rest of the world actually came ashore in South [...]

Ah… but your Land is beautiful!

Time and date

As the sites I work on at Touchwork are all business intelliegence reporting portals, I do a lot of coding around time and date functions.

My colleague sent me this quote today which seems very apt:

Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make [...]

Clearer Conscience

I have recently coded and published a new site for a business initiative called Clearer Conscience.

This small site was coded in PHP with a MySQL backend. The brief was for a small, content managed site to provide information with regards the company’s services, as well as a way for prospective clients to contact the company, [...]

Firefox 3: on your marks, get set…

Developers, open source fans and other flavors of geeks wait eagerly for their chance to download the latest veriosn of Firefox. GMT +2 should get their chance this evening…

If you are not a Firefox user, now is your chance – get the latest version and start supporting open source. It’s good for you.

The rest of [...]

on privacy, FaceBook, & common sense

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Like all good things, FaceBook is open to abuse. Be [...]

get help chosing your next movie!

If you are anything like me, and spend hours looking for movies to rent, help is at hand!

My colleague pointed me in the direction of this site: www.whattorent.com

After answering all the questions, it will then start suggesting which movies you would enjoy based on your answers.

The first movie it came up with for me? Could [...]

MeasureIt Firefox extension

“Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.”

Another handy Firefox extension. To get measurements of elements in webpages I would normally take a screen-shot of the page, paste it into Photoshop, and measure it there. This is so much easier!

Get it here…