Beutelevision

Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote a nice tutorial on building an OpenSocial app with SproutCore.

I just finished reading the Productive Programmer and I really like the suggestions, such as SLAP (single level of abstraction). The book isn’t language specific, but it is Java-heavy in the examples. Still, everything is adaptable to other languages.
There is now also a wiki for the book.

IE6’s well known margin problems can be solved many ways, such as using CSS that only IE6 will read.
I like to use CSS and jQuery as follows:
CSS:
#wrapper
 {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 800px;
  …
 }
 .wrapperie6
 {
  width: 810px !important; /* compensate for IE6 */
 }
and the jQuery code:
$(document).ready(function() {
  if($.browser.version == ‘6.0′){
  [...]

Well it’s been a long time since I’ve posted something. A part of that was the decision to move away from my custom blog code (mostly XSLT based, believe it or not!) to something much easier, Wordpress. In the process I moved all of my old posts over, but I lost all the links. Oh [...]