drewmclellan

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by drewmclellan 14y ago
You can, but then you're not testing IE7, you're testing IE9 in IE7 mode. That's a condition which may be worth testing in some circumstances, but it's not the same as testing IE7 properly.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
I was fascinated that Google chose the name "Google Drive" for their latest product. Without a hint of false naivety, my initial thought on hearing the name was that it was either: a) Something to do with journey planning/directions, or b)
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
I'm 32, and I'm not completely sure what an actual jar of paste is. I've certainly never seen one. Logically, I'm presuming it's used as a paper adhesive (like wallpaper paste). I'd use the verb "to glue". So "copy and paste" or "copy and g
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
What's really interesting is that a lot of these rudiments (save, open, copy, paste, print) simply do not require icons in modern software. I can't remember the last time I saw a save icon in any of the software I use. Not because saving ha
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
I think that's a reality that DVD retailers need to embrace sooner rather than later.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
The web, like anything, has costs and benefits. A big benefit is that you and develop and deploy an app once, centrally, and anyone can access it from anywhere, on any sort of web device. The cost of that is that you can't control how they'
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Looks like the associated blog post is here: http://codeofrob.com/entries/github-live.html
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Which in itself is sad. Profitability, providing employment, and creating a better quality of life for all those involved. Funding is great, but the above sounds like a better measure of success to me.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Thinking about users with JavaScript disabled is unhelpful. Sure, some of those exist, but they've largely opted into that. It's more helpful to think about designing a site to work robustly for the situations in which JavaScript doesn't su
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by drewmclellan 15y ago
Not a dangerous setup as much as a misconfigured one with dangerous side effects. The problem is easily resolved by having Apache respond with a 404 to any requests for non-existant static resources. Which is of course what it should be doi
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by drewmclellan 15y ago
I think Chrome is more insistent in trying to fetch resources. I don't know for sure, but I think it's likely that other browsers also failed, but only occasionally. Firefox, for example, quickly gives up if it can't fetch a resource, and s
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How A Missing Favicon Broke My App for Chrome Users(allinthehead.com)
78 points by drewmclellan 15y ago|19 comments
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by drewmclellan 15y ago
Disagree with your tl;dr, it mischaracterises the post. Mine would be: WYSIWYG provides distraction for editors, and fails to separate content from presentation for developers. Instead, we should use an abstracted formatting language that a
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How WYSIWYG editors are broken, and why we need to fix them(rachelandrew.co.uk)
2 points by drewmclellan 15y ago|3 comments
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by drewmclellan 17y ago
ActiveCollab has built-in daily backup to dump everything to disk in a recoverable form, and then the server itself is backed up. If I wanted to go crazy I could spend another minute adding the files to the cron job that syncs data up to S3
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by drewmclellan 17y ago
I absolutely understand the principal there, but the reality is that it took me less than 30 minutes to be fully up and running with aC, using hardware that was already online running our subversion server. A light bit of tinkering for a Su
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by drewmclellan 17y ago
This is a bug with Chrome on Windows, which is apparently fixed in the latest build. The bug was exposed by our heavy use of RGBA colour, although it didn't affect earlier builds of Chrome or any other Webkit based browser.
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by drewmclellan 17y ago
I know where you're coming from with the agile thing. Agile techniques have a lot of advantages, but they're just one way to run a successful project - there are other ways. The reality of working for clients who need accurate estimates up
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by drewmclellan 17y ago
By "development can be planned up front" I mean on a really simple level. I think the example I gave in the presentation was that if you were implementing a user comments feature, you could reference the spec to find the other parts of the