Today, I stepped back as phpBB Support Team Leader. I’ve written a short announcement including some of the reasons here. I look back with a very positive feeling, and look forward with an even more positive feeling. I rest assured that Techie-Micheal will do a good job as the new Support Team Leader. And I’ll still be a part of the Support Team, doing that which I like most: helping people with phpBB.
All you need is love. That’s today’s phpBB-related theme. Huh? Yeah, really. Because letha found her true love through the phpBB forums. She asked for support, someone helped her, and now they’re getting married!
A funny way of meeting your true love, if you ask me. But if it happens, it happens. As this thread proves.
Marjolein made a new design for her website. And of course, I turned it into HTML. This design uses two stylesheets, one for Internet Explorer, and one for real browsers 😉 . Anyway, A simple browser check is easy in PHP, but we’re also using Nucleus for her weblog, and in the skinning system Nucleus uses, it’s not possible to use PHP.
Rakaz, however, had the solution. It seems Microsoft has built a system called Conditional Comments into their Internet Explorer browser. Using that, you can let IE do something that other browsers won’t do (since other browsers will just see it as regular comments). A very interesting concept that is quite useful, because it makes it easier to make work-around for IE non-standards issues.
So now everything works again, the IE stylesheet is loaded when people browsing with IE come by. The code I used is quite simple:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.tearsong.com/tearsong.css” type=”text/css” /> <!–[if IE]> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.tearsong.com/tearsong-ie.css” type=”text/css” /> <![endif]–>
This ensures the tearsong.css is loaded for all browsers, but only IE will load the IE-specific CSS.
Some of you may know that I’m a big fan of laidback electronica. Nice stuff to relax to. In that vein, I can recommend Brent Mottley’s ‘treeline’. Great laidback music to chill to. Unfortunately the people at Hippocamp seem to have some server trouble at the moment, but linking to archive.org directly works fine 🙂
Until yesterday, I was a happy user of Fluxbox. A lightweight not-too-graphically-oriented window manager for X. But yesterday, zeroK pointed me to Openbox.
Right now, I’m running Openbox. And I’m quite happy. Graphically, it is very similar to Fluxbox. However, instead of flat files with a specific syntax for configuring the system and menu, Openbox uses XML files for configuring. Works great. Much easier to configure.
So yeah, I’m quite happy with Openbox. I’ll probably keep it on my system.
Well, we’ve just Rebooted the WebKoffer website. After a few months of black-on-white standard design, we now have a real design up! Over the next week’s, we’ll still be tweaking it a bit, but this’ll give you a good impression of how it’s going to work!
Amongst the tons of plugins for web developers, there is a new one. The Zend Studio Plugin integrates some Zend Studio functionality with the browser. Of course, only useful if you use Zend Studio for your development, but since I do, I’ve just installed the plugin.
I hereby declare today Thinner Day. I’m going to load all the mp3’s I have from the Thinner netlabel into a playlist and just play their music for one day. 🙂
And I suggest you do the same. Because the music released on Thinner is worth it. Bigtime.
When the Internet was young, or even before the Internet, when computers were young, most of the games you could play on the computer were text-only RPGs. Soon, simple ASCII graphics took over. Then when the Internet was young, it was MUDs all over. Multi-player textbased RPGs. Of course, soon, graphics got better, computer got more powerful, and everyone was aiming for graphics.
Now, a new game is on the horizon, using a recent technology: Wiki’s. Here’s the description of Lexicon: An RPG. It sounds like lots of fun. If anyone is interested in playing, I can easily set up a game and we can think of a theme to do this with.
Here’s 10 CSS tricks you may not know about. I didn’t know about some of them, and some might actually be useful.
However, I am having a slight problem with trick #4. In my humble opinion, that’s more of a bug in IE. Though it might be useful in some cases, using it might break your layout might the IE developers decide to fix this in either the next minor upgrade of IE or in the next major upgrade of IE. So calling that a trick is maybe not good.