Earlier this year I was pondering on how I might be able to use a custom font on a website on the entire text of the site rather than via inline or background images. It was only a passing thought, whilst I was away from a computer screen and it was quickly forgotten.
A while ago I wrote a blog post on html5, and afterwards I decided to re-code my existing homepage to be html5 compliant, and now it is! Helpfully the guys at W3C have added validation for html5, albeit experimental, but it does the trick.
I’ve tested it on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Firefox 3.5.5, Safari 4.0.3, Opera 10.10 and Google Chrome, and all seems to work fine.
Of course this blog is not html5 compliant, since it’s WordPress and the theme itself isn’t coded in html5, but that may change in the future should I get the time.
I usually find it difficul to keep track of tasks I need to do throughout the day, especially when it comes down to breaking down a large task into smaller, more manageable ones and then actually managing them. So I was keeping an eye out for a simple, clear, app (other than notepad or textpad) to help me to keep track of my tasks, something that was “cool” and would make me actually want to use it. Enter TeuxDeux, a simple, designy, free, browser-based to-do app.
I’ve been contemplating on writing a post on coffee and after reading black, one sugar, I have finally decided to do so.
There’s an old cliche regarding developers and coffee, we consume a lot of it since we spend all our time sitting in front of a computer screen. You only have to take a look at Dilbert to convince yourself of that. And of course there is some truth in it, but as with all desk jobs, if you spend enough time sitting at one, you welcome the breaks of wandering to the coffee machine to fill up your cup. So it’s not just us developers, but since we spend more time sitting at a desk than most, it tends to stick.
I’ve been using Twitter Tools for a number of weeks now, automatically having some of my Twitter posts displayed on this blog. However I noticed today that they had stopped working. I knew that I had changed my Twitter password recently and realised that I had forgotten to change it in Twitter Tools. No problem, this can be resurrected easily enough I thought.
