This post was started a while back when Apple sued HTC and their use of Android Mobile Operating System. Since then Windows to has sued Mobile Phone Makers that has used Android (and not Windows). This whole patent “shit” is driving me more or less insane. When I started this post I was reading the [...]
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Getting Real from 37 signals
October 6th, 2010
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If there is one book that you shall buy in 2010, it is the Getting Real book from 37 signals. It’s – to say the least – inspiring. And not only if you develop websites. Try and think outside the box, and you can most likely learn a thing or two to get any project [...]
Being a standard browser
July 4th, 2010
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I’d like to stir up some controversy with this post. I would like the W3C to say that in order for a browser to call it self a standard it needs to be available for all three OS platform. That means: Safari must be developed to work under Linux. Internet Explorer must be developed to [...]
Standards matter
June 22nd, 2010
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Some thoughts regarding the Browser World War 2 in 2010.
Computing HTML5
June 6th, 2010
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I’ve just recently tested the HTML5-site at Apple, and one at Microsoft. Except that a lot of the example HTML5-pages that are on those websites are amazing, I also noticed one more thing: Quite a lot of the examples needs computers with lots of computing power. I experienced this by noticing that my computer, a [...]
Proposal: Windows-tag in HTML5
May 25th, 2010
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Suggestion: windows tag Usage: If you want to create a modal form/window, a “popup” or a lightbox you have to use Javascript. I am suggesting this tag to remove the javascript need to create such a standard feature on the web. This technique uses iframe and css to create the look. Implementation: I am suggesting [...]
PHP-tip: How to fix problems with file permissions
May 14th, 2010
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Have you tried to create or read a file with fopen, file_get_content or file_put_content and only getting permission denied. A reason for this error message can be that the file you are about to read/write already exists and with your account as owner. A quick, and safe, fix is to change the owner and group [...]
Virtual Ubuntu
May 11th, 2010
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Because of an introduction to laptop at work, I have to bring my laptop back and forth to work. Because this isn’t my laptop I feel that I cannot run Ubuntu Linux as the main OS – although I wish I could. Instead I have to rely heavily on windows 7 and VirtualBox. As of [...]
No more c# on iPhone
April 24th, 2010
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Apple does not stop to surprise me. Luckily I haven’t started writing iPhone/iPad applications, and I am not sure if I want to either. As a Linux / windows user as I see it, I cannot create an application in my development environment. What do I have to do? Buy a Macintosh ($999 for MacBook) [...]
PHP-Tip: Commenting your code
This really isn’t a PHP-tip, but more like a programming tip. But since I do most of my development in PHP (and some in C#, and some on VB) I put it up as a PHP-tip. So there. This post is all about commenting. Some do it, some don’t. I tend to do it. Sometimes [...]