This took me way too long to find out, so I thought I’d blog here and hopefully save someone else some time. ImageMagick is a great swiss-army-knife type tool, with […]
Microformats, dark data and CSS – part 2
The first part of this article considered over 100 HTML 4 attributes and came to the conclusion class was the only one suitable for storing machine data (i.e. data specifically […]
Microformats, dark data and CSS – part 1
There’s was a bit of kerfuffle when the BBC dropped support for microformats in their program listings. You can’t argue with their reasons: data for microformats was being read aloud […]
PHP grievance number 1
There’s a lot to hate about PHP. Maybe that’s harsh: nothing’s perfect, every language has it’s strength and weaknesses, and noone ever suggested using PHP for everything. Bearing that in […]
Fixing mysqldump character-encoding in Vim
If you find yourself in a position where your mysqldump backup/restore process isn’t working, it’s worth checking for character-encoding issues – and the best way to do this is often […]
MySQL latin1 → utf8 (WordPress upgrade)
Spurred on by mass hacking, I’ve updated my old (version 2.0.3) WordPress install to something a little newer. I decided to err on the side of caution and upgrade a […]
In search of an Adobe Reader alternative on Mac
I’m looking for an alternative to Adobe Reader on OS X after discovering its “Find” function can’t find jack. As I’m still running Tiger (OS X 10.4) I find Preview […]