This is the first in - what I hope will be - a series of articles on the useful information I received from visiting the Fronteers 2011 conference in Amsterdam last October. Like my articles of last year's conference, I will not give a talk-by-talk summary, but rather pick out the subjects that interest me most and expand on those subjects, while referring to the original talks to give credits due.
Timetravel and mind reading all in one day. What's next? Cars that can drive upside down?
I was "reviving" a laptop for a friend. Just had to run the restore CD's and everything should be done. Of course, it is never that simple...
When a friend complains their PC is slow, what do you do? Some people I know would advise buying a new PC. Or a Mac. But not me, because as we all know, I am masochistic. After all, I code standard compliant HTML.
I recently wondered if the required disk space for common operating systems was stagnating. Yes, I must agree that I sometimes wonder about weird stuff.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This is the life! Struggling for days with some obscure IE bug!
Ahhh, this is the life: struggling for days with some obscure IE bug.
I have an onchange attribute with a jQuery AJAX call on a HTML dropdown that gives strange errors. But only in IE (8, didn't try it in other versions). When replacing the AJAX call with an alert, like so:
<select onchange="alert('onchange');">...</select>
it becomes clear that the onchange is triggered twice. This was also confirmed in the IE Developer Tools window, but I can't use that to debug further.
I don't like social media. I don't typically like social anything. Nevertheless a lot of people like Facebook and some of them seem to want to talk to me, through facebook. So I would like to enable them to do that, without the fear that people post messages on my Facebook page (by accident?) for the world to see.
My goal is to only allow private messages and accepting friend requests.
https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
Connecting on Facebook > View Settings
- Search for you on Facebook -> Everyone
- Send you friend requests -> Everyone
I've recently released autorijschool-relo.nl. It should be HTML5 and CSS3 compliant with fallbacks using modernizr. Let me know it you have trouble viewing it!
With many thanks to http://sophiastaarten.nl!