stuff on web development

dev server: installing apache

Monday, 27 November 2006 9:49 am by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

my reasons: i wanted to set up a web/php server for use as a local development platform. i got tired of uploading php pages to a test subdirectory in a production server just to see if they would work; and i didn’t want to forget what i did to get things working.
note: the combination of [...]

firefox and acid2

Wednesday, 25 October 2006 1:43 pm by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

firefox 2.0 is officially out. time to throw some acid2 in the mix. here’s what i got.

no. it still doesn’t pass it but the rendered page certainly looks better than the one rendered by ie7. although i do have to give points to ie7 for making the fonts look better making the page easier to [...]

css changes for ie7

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:30 am by noel
posted in internet, web development

there are definitely changes in how ie7 would handle css. they are detailed in the ie development blog. some of these changes do correct how css is implemented in ie7 but they also break the hacks that developers made to correct the css implementation in ie6.
like the chicken and egg thing. makes for interesting reading [...]

firefox 2.0 early

Tuesday, 24 October 2006 6:35 am by noel
posted in internet, software, web development

mozilla released firefox 2.0 a day early.

i just installed the thing and some of my themes and one extension (del.icio.us) doesn’t work. its a little bit frustrating but it doesn’t break anything major. more importantly, it doesn’t break any web projects i’m working on. yey!
its a little faster too. and i noticed there’s a lot [...]

an rss fed home page

Friday, 20 October 2006 10:14 pm by noel
posted in software, web development, wordpress

i am in the process of revising the home page of the domain and i thought that putting the headlines of my we+blog in my section of the home page would be cool.
what i wanted to do was to take the rss feed from this blog, mash it up and just show bits of it [...]