Archived posts, February 2011
Opera Mobile emulator and Opera Mini simulator
Checking your work in - and sometimes adapting it for - mobile browsers is quickly becoming more important. Testing is Opera Mobile and Opera Mini is pretty easy.
Improving WordPress privacy
If privacy is important to you or your clients and you want to work with WordPress, there are a number of things you need to do to prevent your development site from disclosing potentially sensitive information.
Enterprise HTML, CSS and JavaScript explained
Explanations of why some of the bad practices that are made fun of at the Enterprise CSS/HTML/JS sites are bad practices.
Writing useful page titles
A few simple guidelines that will help you create readable, usable, and accessible titles for your web pages.
A selection of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
A selection of the Mac OS X keyboard commands I find myself using a lot, some of which may not be all that well-known.
Validating HTML5 with validator.nu and the HTML5Validator Extension for Firefox
How to automatically validate HTML5 in Firefox by installing a local copy of Validator.nu and my HTML5 Validator Extension.
Multiple custom search forms in WordPress
The search form in the default WordPress 3 theme doesn’t suit everybody’s taste. Luckily there are many, many ways of customising it.
DanKam for iPhone and Android corrects colour blindness
DanKam is an augmented reality app that uses the phone’s camera to filter images in real time, changing their colours to make them easier to see for colourblind people.
Now on Twitter
You can now keep track of new posts here through Twitter as an alternative option to RSS.
Merging directories (folders) on Mac OS X
Copying a folder on top of another folder with the same name in the Mac OS X Finder will replace the entire contents of the target folder. This is not always what you want, so luckily there are other ways of copying folders.
HTML5 Validator extension updates
The HTML5 Validator extension for Firefox has received a number of updates and is now hosted on GitHub.
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