Monthly Archives January 2007

My RSS Confession

Even though I work as a website developer until last week I had never bothered to set up an RSS reader. Now I’m not sure why I hadn’t bothered doing this, I was well aware of RSS feeds, I was even running 2 blogs both with RSS feeds. I think I was just stuck in [...]

MultipleIEs Cookie Problem Solved

Last weekend I wrote about how to run IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. Now this technique was working very well until I needed to test some CSS modifications that I had made on the phuser interface in IE6. It was then I discovered the standalone version of IE6 has a problem with storing [...]

Facebook

I signed up for a Facebook account today, partially out of curiosity but also because I wanted to see what type of crossover it has with phuser, the website I’ve been developing.
I’ve been finding it quite interesting so far, there’s a cool feature where if you give Facebook your email address username and password it [...]

IG Syntax Higliter CSS Width Fix for IE6

If you have a site with a narrow main content area like this blog then the IG Syntax Highliter plugin can break your layout in Internet Explorer 6. This problem can be easily solved by modfying the file syntax_hilite_css.css. Here is where this file is located:
your_blogs_dir/wp-content/plugins/ig_syntax_hilite/css/syntax_hilite_css.css
Below is the first change I've made aroud line 7, [...]

Run IE6 and IE7 on the Same Computer

I'm back home at my parents house this weekend. I had a bit of spare time of my hands this afternoon so decided I was going to fix the IE6 rendering bug I found yesterday. My parents laptop is fairly new so has IE7 installed, however I've discovered a stand-alone version of IE6 on evolt.org. [...]

Curse you Internet Explorer!

I was pretty pleased with the code syntax highlighting plugin I installed yesterday, just before I was about to finish work I got the Blog up in IE6 Arrrggghhh! IE6 redenders the width of the main content column smaller than Firefox and IE7, this causes the main content to be displayed below the content [...]

Keep scummers out of your .svn directories

If your a website developer or designer then you don't want to be editing the files on your live webserver if you can help it. One of the best way around this is to do your development work on a local machine and check your files into a version control system such as Subversion.
However when [...]

Sytax highlighting A-go-go

Theres only one thing that I love more than technology and thats code!
I've added the IG: Syntax Higliter plugin to this blog so I can start publishing snippets of code on this blog. The plugin can support php, html, sql, and a whole host of others languages click here to find out more about it.
Below [...]

Mr.T puts the “T” in I.T

Its official Mr. T loves Computer Science, check out this advert for Hitachi for proof, I absolutely creased when I watched it. "I pity the fool that doesn't use Hitachi data System Virtualization!"
/* Pete Graham */

IBM Release Corporate Social Networking Tools

IBM has released an enterprise social networking suite called Lotus Connections. The suite has five components:

Activities
Dogear (a book marking del.icio.us style system)
Communities
Profiles
Blogs (well we all love blogs these days don’t we)

The aim of these Web 2.0 components is to help experts connect and collaborate within an organisation.
Some people are claiming IBM are just trying to [...]