Lots of good points for techies in this article. Basically, tell your boss what you’re doing. Easier said than done, and yes, I certainly don’t remember everything I’ve done on any particular day.
And in case you want to go it alone, you should probably read this article, second in a series.
bah – IE6 privacy features
Argh! Had a fix a problem on one of our sites – users were complaining that some of our content wasn’t showing. On testing, nobody in the office could find anything wrong. All the code used is several months old and has worked well in that time. This thread explains a bit more about the changes in IE6, and the requirement for a “Compact Privacy Policy” on your site.
Css, Printer Friendly Pages & Page Breaks
I’m working on a user list at work, and one requirement is a printer friendly version, listing one user per page. What I’ve done in the past is have the user click on a button to download a .doc file with End Of Page characters embedded in it. Word would oblige by skipping to a new page.
I decided for this application I wanted to go the CSS route to printing.
All the “Printer Friendly Pages with CSS” tutorials were useless when it came to inserting page breaks, but after a bit of searching on Google (mainly because I didn’t use the term ‘page break’) but I eventually came across this thread on devshed.
#break
{
PAGE-BREAK-AFTER: always;
}
…..
<P ID=”break”>some content</P>
This will print a page break after the text some content
!
Now I have a really nice web based list of users, and hitting print on the browser produces a neat pile of pages, one user per page.
I also found a bug in Mozilla Firebird! While in “Print Preview” mode, refresh the page using ctrl-r. It’ll bring up the original page but will keep the browser in the preview mode! Yes, I’ll take a look in Bugzilla for it tomorrow. I’m off home now!
10 minutes to spare?
If you’ve a few minutes to spare then this flash animation/game is worth a look. It reminds me a lot of Monty Pyhon and is a good way of relieving stress!
Tim Swanson – bye bye!
For whatever reason, Tim has decided to retire from blogging. Even if he does have a huge ego (a lot of the most prolific/quoteable bloggers I know seem to share that same characteristic!), I enjoyed reading his rants and posts.
Anyway, hope you get out of that Turkish prison soon.
I made it..
I’m in Chicago, but it’s been yet another hectic day. No rest for the wicked
as they say.
Thanks Andrew for sending my old demos – I’ll have to install Vice again to take a look at them but I’m really grateful you had them lying around. I was certain I had lost the C-Force demo for good years ago!
Update! On the flight over I had the pleasure to talk to Mary Meade and her husband. Hi Mary, told you I’d mention you here!
bye bye again!
Next time I post, I’ll be in Chicago, unless I get itchy fingers and blog something from Heathrow tomorrow afternoon!
Normal transmission will resume on Monday.
Vimacs
C64 people and the good ol' days..
I’m stuck in work late, yet again, and plouging through a long list of things when I get an email titled, ‘remember me?’ from Andrew Fisher. Andrew was a member of the c64 demo group ‘Ozone’ that I formed with Ciaran Langford many a year ago.
I haven’t heard from Andrew in a long time so I took the opportunity to call him and we had a great chat catching up, and reminising about the ‘good ol’ days’ 🙂
Prompted by a visit to his homepage I searched for mention of the demo I worked on for Ozone and found it nestled away in a C64 demo archive. Thanks Andrew for submitting it there!
EEW!!!
Hehe.. Funny!