The Freshmaker
Things were getting a little stale and I never was happy with the old design, so I dug up an old rejected comp and here we are. Because I'm clever and smart all I had to do was flip a few switches and everything
astormJustifying Custom Content Managment Systems
Two ancient (in internet time) resources for web developers recently relaunched, both after long hiatuses. A List Apart and Evolt.
astormStupid Product Pricing
I get economy of scale, supply/demand and all that jazz, but I still think it’s pretty asinine when Apple’s older, original AirPort cards are more expensive (almost by half if you’re paying full price) than the new AirPort Extreme cards.
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Feeling as though it’s been some time since you posted, and with a desire to archive some useful text you always manage to loose on your hard drive, you decide to provide five MySQL ALTER statements that allow you to quickly add common
astormStupid Numbering Conventions
After years in this industry I still have to go through a two second mental calculation whenever I see something like
astormSome Email Form Script Guidelines
This is a response I sent on the WebDesign-L mailing list in repsonse to a question about email form security. I reposting it here since, you know, “The Busy”.
astormWindows XP DOS Window
If you’ve been out of the Windows game for a few years and find yourself forced back into it, don’t use
astormApple and Intel
If I don’t say something about the Apple/Mac/Intel announcement they’ll take my Mac card away, so here are some random thoughts.
astormVirtual PC
I recently rediscovered Virtual PC for OS X and have spent the past few days setting up several different development environments. Here’s a few tips if you’re that way inclined
astormCollecting Network Information via the OS X Terminal
Using the Windows “command line” (DOS, or in XP “not DOS”), you can get a nicely formated printout of your Network configuration by typing the following command.
astormBBEdit PHP Function-Parameter Auto-Complete
A new PHP tool for those discriminating BBEdit users out there.
astormHousekeeping
In addition to fixing the links in the RSS feed yesterday, I also went back and properly capitalized all my titles. Unlike, say, the New York Times or AP I don’t have a house style, but consistency is important.
astormRSS Links Fixed
Links in the RSS feed for alanstorm.com have been fixed. Sorry about that, the QA department has been sacked.
astormGreylisting
My web and email host has been upgrading their junk email filtering offerings and the difference is nothing short of phenomenal.
astormExcel Tips
If there’s a bash Microsoft party I’ll be there with bells on, but that won’t stop me from loving Excel. This, of course, is less to do with Excel and more to do with the concept of computer spread sheets, but
astorm“Smart Quotes”
I finally got around to integrating the excelent “SmartyPants” plug-in with this website. Since I use a PHP CMS I hacked together myself, i wrote a little wrapper class for the perl script. If you’re into that kind of thing, the code
astormGoogle are S-M-R-T
Google recently introducted another little browser toolbar widget called Web Accelerator. When you go to a page, the Web Accelerator will look at links on the page and, under certain conditions, start downloading the linked pages automatically in the background. Then, if you click
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