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May 2008 - Posts

JavaScript browser detection
Quick shout out to Peter-Paul Koch at QuirksMode.org for his very nice javascript browser detection script. Clever, and definately deserved more than a tweet. Read More...
Caricatures
As I was walking around the local Geranium Festival at the weekend (they completely shut down the center of our sleepy little town for a bunch of vendors to set up stalls) I came across a guy doing caricatures . We've had them done for the kids a Read More...
Kinda Relative URLs
After developing for *cough* some time it's not often that I come across a new style of URL that I've never even heard of before. A few days ago I saw a forum post about a 404 message someone got about their geotrust smartseal badge. I followed Read More...
Dealing with Mrs Jobsworth
From wikipedia : A jobsworth is a person who uses his or her job description in a deliberately obstructive way, "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". The term comes from the phrase "I can't Read More...