This is Ireland’s entry in the Eurovision. We (the Irish public that is) went mad for several weeks to pick out Mickey Harte singing “We’ve Got the World Tonght”. Of course I watched it only because Martina was watching it!
Author Archives: Donncha
Show computed styles bookmarklet
Simon wanted a bookmarklet to examine the css style sheet of any particular html element on a page. Sil created a beautiful bookmarklet that displays the style properties of your page as you move the mouse over them! Wow! Tres nice!
Unfortunately another bookmarklet didn’t work worked strangely in Galeon 1.2.9 (and Moz 1.3). I had to open an close the Javascript console to get it to work I think.
kmail 1.5, deleting mail.
If you use Kmail, then you should be aware of a serious usability error that exists in it. I’ve only tested this in Kmail 1.5 which ships with Red Hat 9. Look at my ILUG post for a detailed description.
Briefly, pressing a key will jump to a folder with a name that starts with that letter.
The problem is, when you have “d” pressed to delete multiple mails..
Tim Swanson
Hi Tim! Nice site! One to read, and I’ve added you to my rss aggregator!
The Dynamic Duo of PEAR::DB and Smarty
A short article introducing the workflow of a typical Smarty/PEAR::DB application. You’ll need to know a bit about both to get the most from the examples though, but the author has some good ideas.
Carol's GIMP tutorials
Carol has lots of tutorials on her site. Including stuff on red eye removal and a “new user” introduction to the GIMP!
Smarty Forums
The new Smarty Forums are now online!
I have to admit I prefer email discussion lists but these things can be useful as well. Maybe I’m just getting old too.
Simon discusses Smarty
Simon talks about Smarty Templates. He’s the founder of the Smarty Wiki, and lists some links developers will find useful if they’re thinking of using Smarty.
GNOME – Bitstream Vera Fonts
Seems that the Gnome Project has made Vera Fonts widely available now. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to install these (copy the local.conf to /etc/fonts, and copy the .ttf files into ~/fonts before running fc-cache)
I restarted Galeon and kmail to see what it looked like and initially I didn’t like the look of them. I’m still not sure about Kmail, but in the browser they might look ok. I think they look a bit “wide” or something. Time will tell, and I’ll post about this again tomorrow!