Archive for March, 2008

What annoys me about the Awesome Bar

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

As I’ve written before, I’ve been using Firefox 3, and as with everyone else, one of the first changes I noticed was the Awesome Bar. At first I didn’t really knew what to think about it, and then it started to annoy me a bit but when I changed my mindset and started using it […]

Custom error messages on Django’s auto generated modelforms

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

As I’ve written before, I’ve been adventuring into the world of Python lately, namely with PyGTK, Zope/Plone, and Django. Although I’m a huge newbie with these technologies, I’ve been picking up stuff pretty fast and I love Django and the speed at which I’m developing an application with it.
So after I started doing some stuff […]

links for 2008-03-18

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

24 ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
Apparently this is the best way nowadays to get transparent png’s working on IE6, and it works like a charm but you might have to make some changes due to the limitations it imposes (namely the unability to use background positioning).
(tags: browsers css ie iehacks webdevelopment)

ie7-js - Google […]

links for 2008-03-16

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

ยป Lady Ada of Lovelace, Pioneer of the Computer Era, Brilliant Visionary - DevChix - Blog Archive
(tags: ada lovelace programming history)

Upgrading to Firefox 3

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

I’ve been using Ubuntu Hardy Heron since I got my new laptop (ended up getting a refund for the CR-21 and got a CR-31) but when I tried to start Firefox 3 it complained that the majority of my extensions weren’t FF3 compatible. I didn’t really had the time to investigate the issue so I […]

links for 2008-03-11

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
A detailed description of browser modes, how they are supported and how to activate them.
(tags: accessibility webstandards browsers css html)

Some thoughts on Gnome’s little apps

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Last night, after a tweet by Levi I decided to give another try to Tilda. In case you never heard about it, Tilda is a pulldown quake like terminal for Gnome, which would be something just great for me.
I had tried Tilda some months ago, but it was totally bug ridden and it didn’t respect […]