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Mobile Device Browser File
In the late 90s when I worked on the classic Active Server Pages dev team, I tried to convince one of the Program Managers that we should make regular updates to browscap.ini, the file that described browser capabilities. He wanted no part of it.
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04
I spent much of today playing around with the brand-new Jaunty/9.04 release of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Eee 1000H netbook. Previously I had run the Hardy/8.04 version of Ubuntu Eee on this system. I had never bothered to update to Intrepid/8.10, but now that UNR is fully supported by Canonical, I thought it was time to try it out.
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Sprints
Scrum and Agile revolve around sprints. At my previous employer, I spent two years working in one-week sprints. At my current job, I've spent another two years working in four-week sprints.
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CSS in Email
I spent part of a day last week fighting with CSS for an email template. CSS support is poor in both desktop and web clients, and much worse than in current browsers.
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InstantShot!
Many of the screenshots that show up on my blog were captured with ImageWell, a little Mac app with resizing, uploading, and rudimentary image editing functionality. It used to be freeware. Now it costs $20 after the trial period runs out.
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Python String Formatting
Python has long had a string interpolation operator, %.
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De-partitioning a Mac disk
I wrote yesterday about NTFS-3G because I was backing my MacBook to an external NTFS drive. I was backing up because I wanted to de-partition my Mac.
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NTFS-3G: the universal filesystem
After I started running Linux and then Mac OS X, in addition to Windows, I started on a quest to find the universal filesystem. I had multiboot systems and external drives where I wanted to to be able to read and write disks under multiple operating systems.
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Iframes: thinking outside the box
New post to the Cozi Tech Blog: Iframes: thinking outside the box.
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Contrasting Colors for Text and Background
About three weeks ago, I answered a question on StackOverflow about generating the most readable color of text on a colored background.