Category Archives: Misc

June 22, 2007
OT: I HATE ads on CFDJ

<cfrant>Ok… I understand (though I’m not happy) that advertising is a part of our everyday lives and ‘online’ is no exception. I understand that to subsidise costs, many sites have to display advertising to bring us (the audience) great content. These ads are usually in the form of banners or inline (adsense) textual ads etc. [...]

June 17, 2007
Inspirational posts from the community

Like a lot of people I spend quite a bit of time reading the technical blogs as a constant source of knowledge and advancement. A couple of posts both inspired and got me thinking over the weekend so I thought I’d quickly mention both in case anybody missed them, they’re a great read. The first [...]

June 13, 2007
Reading blogs on a mac using Firefox– also posted in CSS

I’ve been on a Mac (OSX) for a little while now and generally I’m having a nice time, except when it comes to reading some (but only some) blogs! We all know that font sizes are different across browser and platform, but Firefox on a mac occasionally makes life a little difficult particularly when it [...]

December 5, 2006
snap…a google competitor and cool site preview tool

Snap is a nice little search engine which displays your results in a left window pane and a site preview of your search result in the right. It’s very Ajax-y and includes personalised settings, email a friend, result ratings and more. They even made the Time 50 coolest websites of 2006. Snap is also a [...]