Sunday, 27. September 2009
Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the web.But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google’s index, it’s still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number.
Sunday, 27. September 2009
The term web standards can mean different things to different people. For some, it is ‘table-free sites’, for others it is ‘using valid code’. However, web standards are much broader than that. A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, DOM, MathML, SVG etc) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc).
Sunday, 27. September 2009
Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”
You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?
Monday, 21. September 2009
While ago I was searching for some drop down menu examples using only html and css. I found plenty of them, but all had a single problem in common: compatibility with IE.
Monday, 21. September 2009
Eight bytes walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Can I get you anything?”
“Yeah,” reply the bytes. “Make us a double.”
Monday, 21. September 2009
Monday, 21. September 2009
Two bytes meet. The first byte asks, “Are you ill?”
The second byte replies, “No, just feeling a bit off.”
Monday, 21. September 2009
public GetRandomNumber()
{… code here ….
// Chosen by a fairly rolen dice
return 12;
}
