Author Archives: genox
The Art of Pragmatism
The web (or let’s say, the technology underneath the hood) is once again facing an evolutionary step towards becoming more userfriendly for both developers and consumers. I put big hopes into CSS3/HTML5 and a more streamlined production process for creating websites due to less workarounds. With more and more websites haveing heavy usage of ajaxified [...]
Posted in design, my five cents, web Tagged browser, compatibility, css3, fallback, html5 2 Comments
Understanding Clients
Dear clients, I don’t mean to insult you or rant about our sometimes tense relationships. We’re all “just” humans, with our very own personal goals and our very own approaches to problem solving. But try to look at it from our perspective, too. I know, you pay the bill so you are the boss. But [...]
Winter Impaired
This is why I don’t like winter: At some point half way through it, I start to get the winter-blues really hard. Like now. I’m constantly tired, no matter how much coffee I drink, no matter how much I sleep. I usually have a nap sometime in the late afternoon to get back to work [...]
Epson R2880: Proofing 2.0
I already wrote an article about printing proofs with the Epson R2880, little more than a year ago. Since then, I tried out various approaches. Here’s what works best for me and what I still consider a “low budget” solution, compared to a professional RIP of course. ;-) First, the hardware: The Epson R2880 is [...]
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Nodes: Inserting Images
While Drupal provides a lot of extensions and gimmicks, one of the big downsides currently is image handling. Basic image handling, like inserting images into a node’s body field are quite the task to achieve – there’s plenty of approaches but almost all fail at some point. Mostly because of bugs or lack of basic [...]
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Byebye IE6
I am really really tempted to officially drop IE6/5.5/5 support and just show those browsers a big, huge “UPDATE NOW” image ASAP. I can’t tell you *how* very excited I am that it seems like IE6 is going to vanish probably during the next 6 months or so. Life is going to be so easy. [...]
Well done.
I don’t get around writing down some thoughts about this topic. The law which was passed last week in switzerland is in fact absolutely ridiculous. It boils down to this: The campaign of the SVP was building upon fear. It didn’t really matter wether it would have been a law to prohibit anyone from building [...]
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Say “hi” to drupdater v0.1
After some bugfixing and testing, Drupdater version 0.1 is ready. Not for download yet, tho. I am still trying to find the perfect balance between stability and ease of use. I also rewrote the update procedure to gain performance and stability: Instead of running a synch over the whole “modules” directory, I know Tar/BZip the [...]
iPhone game “iFluenza” available!
We just published our first iPhone game in the AppStore: iFluenza is finally available. :) Here’s a little gameplay video. “We” being Michu Vogt who did all the coding and yours truly, responsible for the weird colors and music. ;) iFluenza – just another iPhone game… Save the world! Stop the evil virus. Kill all [...]
Drupal: Limited drush magic (update)
I was trying to figure out how to create a simple way to keep my 15+ drupal installations clean and up to date with a single mouseclick for a long time now. Of course, drush was the first thing I looked at, but since it is a command line tool and all my clients are [...]
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Drupal: Columns for the Body
Probably not entirely groundbreaking, but a nice way to achieve nice layouts using Drupal + WYSIWYG occured to me about 3 projects ago when I was trying to figure out a way of haveing multiple columns in a page’s body field. Sure, you can do the same thing by using CCK and define a couple [...]
My Drupal Arsenal V1.1
I previously introduced you to a list of my favourite plugins. Some time has passed and I am able to present to you an updated version of it. New plugins are marked with *, removed plugins are marked with † and the “swiss knife of modules” is marked with a +. Keep in mind that [...]
SGU: Stargate Universe
It was too bad that SG Atlantis was cancelled. I got to really like the plot and the characters. But shortly after, we are now blessed with it’s “offspring” – which has not much to do with it’s parents, honestly. I like the change of direction they introduced with the new series. Before, every character [...]
StarTrek
Oh my, the new StarTrek Movie is really nice. It’s pretty much a break to all of the previous movies and it opens a wide area for new timelines and events. Already looking forward to the next one. :-) For those of you not into the whole StarTrek thing: This movie isn’t as “trekky” as [...]
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