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Has anyone ever asked you for help troubleshooting some combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they copy and paste the entirety of all the files into an email or forum post? Its super common, and so consider this an intervention. When you are having trouble figuring something out:

via Seriously, Just Make a JSFiddle | CSS-Tricks.

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A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education. While some of the study’s findings were expected – students want improved support for taking notes, checking references and viewing figures – the authors also found that allowing people to switch between reading styles, and providing the reader with physical cues, are two challenges that e-readers will need to address in cracking the college market.

via College students’ use of Kindle DX points to e-reader’s role in academia — University of Washington – washington.edu.

Oracle released a new BI extension for Open Office with the latest Open Office release (v. 3.3) . This extension gives us the ability to embed information from BI EE 10g into Open Office Calc, Writer and Impress documents (equivalents of Excel, Word and Powerpoint).  OO Calc supports the ability to embed entire reports including tabular views, pivot tables and charts. OO Writer and OO Impress only support embedding of charts into the documents.

via Rittman Mead Consulting » Blog Archive » Oracle releases BI extension for Open Office.

From Apple’s point of view, iPhone OS and web technologies share equal footing. When you visit their developer site, the Safari Dev Center is prominently displayed. The iPhone gets all the press, but when you click on Safari Dev Center, there’s a ton of great information that explains how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on an iPhone.

via A List Apart: Articles: Apps vs. the Web.

Mac & the iPad

AskTog, Spring 2010

Mac & the iPad, History Repeats Itself

For those of us around Apple for the launch of the 1984 Mac, things are awfully familiar.

via Mac & the iPad.

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subverted git?

Ever wanted to use SVN to grab code from GitHub? Well, now you can, and just like that GitHub is the world’s biggest Subversion host. Here’s a few things you might like to do with it:

via Announcing SVN Support.

oh, cool, thank you. Works for me.

svn checkout http://svn.github.com/schacon/simplegit.git

Following Restore one table from an ALL database dump and Restore a Single Table From mysqldump, I would like to add my own thoughts and comments on the subject.I also wish to note performance issues with the two suggested solutions, and offer improvements.

via On restoring a single table from mysqldump | code.openark.org.


face@mac:V:150 $ sed -n “/^– Table structure for table \`mx_categories\`/,/^– Table structure for table/p” wordpress_2009-12-02_02h15m.Wednesday.sql
– Table structure for table `mx_categories`

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `mx_categories`;
/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client = @@character_set_client */;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE `mx_categories` (
`cat_ID` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`cat_name` varchar(55) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
`category_nicename` varchar(200) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
`category_description` text NOT NULL,
`category_parent` int(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0′,
PRIMARY KEY (`cat_ID`),
UNIQUE KEY `cat_name` (`cat_name`),
KEY `category_nicename` (`category_nicename`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=9 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;


– Dumping data for table `mx_categories`

LOCK TABLES `mx_categories` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `mx_categories` DISABLE KEYS */;
INSERT INTO `mx_categories` VALUES (1,’General’,'general’,”,0),(2,’Unix Notes’,'unix-notes’,”,0),(3,’AppleScript Notes’,'applescript-notes’,”,0),(4,’Misc Notes’,'misc-notes’,”,0),(5,’System Software Notes’,'system-software-notes’,”,0),(6,’Applications Notes’,'applications-notes’,”,0),(7,’Web Serving’,'web-serving’,”,0),(8,’Utilities Notes’,'utilities-notes’,”,0);
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `mx_categories` ENABLE KEYS */;
UNLOCK TABLES;


– Table structure for table `mx_commentmeta`

This site is a companion to the influential computer-science text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. Its purpose is to demonstrate the Web’s potential to be a channel for innovative support for textbook users.

The material on this site is aimed at instructors using SICP as a course text, and at people using the book for self-study.

via Welcome to the SICP Web Site.

Video lecture

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For those of you who are still using pixels, it’s about time you made the switch to ems or points.  It allows users who have a hard time reading small type to enlarge the font.  Here is a little trick that will help you so you don’t have to remember the chart above.

body { font-size: 62.5% }

This will make 1.0 em the same as 10px.  So if you wanted 12 px. would be 1.2em, nice and easy.  Hopefully this will help you out, I know I use it all the time.  Enjoy.

via CSS Font Size Conversion Chart.

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Mobile use is one of the biggest challenges now facing many websites. Its also important for some intranets, particularly in companies with many traveling employees.

via Mobile Usability Jakob Nielsens Alertbox.

The challenge has been around since the PalmPilot + application specific tools.

I suspect the success rate for doing “phone” tasks or “address book” tasks is much higher than the “web” tasks.

A custom application (which is all that a “Mobile Site” is, really) is going to provide a better experience.

Simple example? Google Maps – can’t use it on a “mobile” browser. The custom application for my phone works quite well.

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