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John Niven on Jeff Barrett's blog and book, 'Caught By The River'
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Archive for June, 2009
links for 2009-06-30
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009links for 2009-06-28
Sunday, June 28th, 2009-
funny overheard conversations and 'notable quotables'
links for 2009-06-27
Saturday, June 27th, 2009links for 2009-06-24
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009links for 2009-06-23
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009links for 2009-06-20
Saturday, June 20th, 2009-
What can you spell with the apps in your Dock?!
links for 2009-06-18
Thursday, June 18th, 2009-
Astonishing amount of details in this informative map of New York City homicides going back to 2003. Sadly for New York City, much of the demographic data is constant and predictable.
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Lovely bit of CSS to style new HTML5 <kbd> elements to look like actual keyboard keys
HTML5 HTML text semantics granularity
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Wow, HTML5 HTML semantic text description options are so granular I had to spend several minutes pondering whether my previous code snippet about relaxing Apache permissions warranted <code>, <kbd>, or <samp> elements, or a combination of all three.
In the end I settled on a <kbd> element for the bit I want you to type in (opening a file in vi from the command line), as that’s the bit you’re going to type. For the contents of the file I chose a <samp> element, as the text shown in the file is a sample of the output of my file, rather than a chunk of code you need to enter.
The difference between <code> and <samp> is very small, but it’s great that we actually now have this level of specificity, which should help ensure that HTML5 HTML is robust enough to last well into the future.
Permission denied when accessing Sites directory on a Mac
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Solution:
Open your Apache conf file:
sudo vi /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
…and relax the permissions somewhat by commenting out (with a #) or removing the ‘deny from all’ line:
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
Order Deny,Allow
# Deny from all
</Directory>
With thanks to Damon Parker. See his site for an explanation of why you need to fix this in the first place.
links for 2009-06-17
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009-
YSlow can output its results to an external URL, so…