Category: Quick ‘n Dirty

  • Four more

    Yesterday i made another trip to my favourite bookseller. Four more books on the reading shelve: RESTful Web Services (Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby) Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS (John Krygier, Denis Wood) CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll) Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How […]

  • Newsagency 2.0 – Would a NewsCommons work?

    Some time ago i argued that it would be a good thought experiment to consider if web 2.0 applications like blogs, web based calendars et. would provide a sufficient infrastructure for building the backbone of a “no frills” news agency. While i still even more think that this is a very interesting thought experiment and […]

  • Developer Notes on Safari for iPhones – Some Questions

    Apple posted guidelines for Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone. While they are already quite comprehensive they do not answer all my questions. By briefly skimming the document the following first questions arose: What about display: block in style sheets? When the user double-taps a page, Safari on iPhone looks at the element that […]