Archive for February, 2008

February 22nd, 2008

I’m a Guestwhore.

Rae Hoffman, aka Sugarrae, had me over for a guest post on her popular blog. She calls her guest bloggers "guestwhores", in keeping with a recurring theme on her blog (if you're a regular reader, you'll get it). For the occasion, I prepared a little guide to canonicalization. ...
February 21st, 2008

DOM style properties: FF vs IE

For my own convenience and that of my loyal readers (both of you! hi!), Here is my table of style objects for Firefox and IE. When you're manipulating styles via Javascript, it helps to know whether a style property exists in the 2 browsers worth supporting. Here is that list. Some ...
February 21st, 2008

returning a random row from MySQL

Something this useful: you'd suppose MySQL would do it efficiently. Return a random row from a table. the conventional way to do it is: select * from mytable order by rand() limit 1 that's fine on very small tables... but as you apply it to larger datasets, it gets quite expensive. I applied ...
February 11th, 2008

my first WMW home page feature

Shortly after reaching 4 years and 1000 posts, I finally got one onto the home page. httpwebwitch featured on the WMW home page That was my morning thrill
February 10th, 2008

Indian “Thriller”

Once again, a post that merely says "look at this cool thing I found on YouTube". Anyone who argues that the world isn't a fascinating place only has to contemplate this... "Doing the thriller" is one of those bizarre cultural things... I ...
February 5th, 2008

Radiohead finally does something worthwhile

A whole pantload of people are discovering Joy Division for the first time, because Radiohead did a cover of "Ceremony". Educate yourself. This is the original: Followed soon after by ...