This has been bugging me for weeks and today I finally found and resolved the problem so thought I should share in case anyone else has this problem too. I couldn’t remember when I first noticed they were missing but when ever I checked a working folder on my laptop the tortoise svn icon overlays […]
What happened to the design?
Today, one or two of you may notice the site looks a little different. That’s because the style sheets for both my site and the blog have been removed for one international day (that’s about 48 hours to you and me) to celebrate CSS Naked Day. Every year, website developers across the world remove their […]
Verify your domain via DNS
Google have announce another way to verify you own a domain in their webmaster tools, via a DNS TXT record. This solves a problem I have had many times in that it verifies the whole domain. Until now, you had to verify you owned every sub-domain on a domain before you could use webmaster tools […]
First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
Microsoft’s IE development team have announced their first developer preview for the latest version of Internet Explorer. IE9 is rumoured to include several <html5> and CSS3 elements, making it a real contender in the new range of “modern browsers”. You can read more about the release on the IE Blog, or jump straight over to […]
Enable broken image placeholders in Firefox
Something that has always bugged me about Firefox is that if it encounters a broken image it doesn’t display an image place-holder. Instead it displays the alt attribute as in-line text. This can cause problems if your primary development browser is Firefox, as you may not notice broken images on a page. For a while […]