Author Archives: Paul Dixon

Stop Hacking CSS

David Shea (the CSS Zen Gardener) urges web designers to stop CSS hacking or be stopped. Nice article from the fledgling Vitamin website.

CSS Zen Garden inspired me to try and do a better job of CSS and semantic markup, I’m hoping to find enough time to make Geograph a whole lot better in that area too. One thing David’s article mentions is the difficulty of testing, but I find the BrowserCam service invaluable. Not only can it take screen captures of a page on many different OS/browser combinations, you can also remotely access some systems via VNC to play with your site for real. Easier than maintaining your own virtual machines or real test kit!

Pastebin v0.40 released

There hasn’t been a source release of pastebin.com in over a year, and I promised one in April, and here it is!

There’s no new features yet, just what you see on pastebin.com, but the code has been substantially reworked from the last available release. Source is GPL licenced, if you have any questions, add them as comments to this article in case the answers are of benefit to others…

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