Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
I gladly admit that I’m a usability geek, which means that sometimes, the most important things for me may be small and insignificant for others. I encounter this every day. Here are two examples from today. Our new dvd recorder at home is not very intuitive to use so normally I control it when our […]
Posted in justaddwater.dk | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Just a tip I spent some time on figuring out: Found information today on how to use TortoiseSVN to manage svn:externals. I’m working on a big project where we need many different branches and parts to use the same css and images libraries throughout all subprojects. I had to Google to get the information on […]
Posted in Web Development | 15 Comments »
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
I have for long been struggling with an internal legacy application that wraps the content page in a frameset. Very annoying because I have spent some time to reverse engineer a poor-mans API to the application. Problem: An inline “reverse” framebuster script that makes sure that everything is nicely(?) wrapped in the frameset. As you […]
Tags: JavaScript
Posted in Browser, JavaScript, Web Development | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007 by Thomas Watson Steen
If you run a blog or any other website for that matter, you might want to check out Google Webmaster Central – in particular their Google Webmaster Tool – if you haven’t already seen it. Google Webmaster Tool is a great tool for webmasters who want to see and manage how Google crawls their site(s). […]
Posted in Accessibility, Errors, Review, Search Engines | 14 Comments »
Sunday, October 14th, 2007 by Thomas Watson Steen
Today is a great day. At least if you ask Jesper and my self. I just got a call from Jesper who was out shopping with his family, wishing me a happy birthday. Today it’s exactly two years ago that we postet our first post on Justaddwater.dk and we are still going strong. We would […]
Posted in Best of Justaddwater, Blogging, Humor, justaddwater.dk | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 12th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
I figured the original bookmarklet toolbox needed an update. Added Quirksmode detection, layout grid and updated PageInfo to accept framed pages.
Posted in HTML, JavaScript, Web Development, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
I have mentioned before usability issues of my Lenovo Thinkpad T60p computer. Usability issues is one thing. Another—and potential deadly—thing happened Saturday evening at home. This is what I write to our internal support and expect them to forward. Saturday evening I put the power plug in the laptop to recharge. I came back to […]
Posted in Errors, Hardware | 5 Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
The blog software WordPress is just released in version 2.3. One of the new additions are a feature that can rescue and correct links when users accidentally follow a link in an email broken over 2 lines. Or following an old link that the blog author has renamed. We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in […]
Posted in Usability | 1 Comment »