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Re: Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times

Julian — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:46:47 -0000

Some other great airports to check out are Madrid, Munich, and even (shudder) Heathrow Terminal 5.

Re: Heroku | YamlDb for Database-Independent Data Dumps

Julian — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:36:09 -0000

Standard note for Windows users -- if you get this message under windows

Mysql::Error: Can't create/write to file 'C:\path\to\Temp\#sql_1e70_0.MYI' (Errcode: 13): SHOW FIELDS FROM ...

It's entirely possible you have a virus scanner like McAfee that is blocking the creation of 'MYI' files.

Solution: add it as an exception under 'On Access Scanner:Properties:All Processes:Detection:Exclusions...' -- you can enable the folder or more robustly all files ending in MYI.

Re: http://www.techwinter.com/2006/06/26/will-spam-destroy-microformat-hcard/

Julian — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:08:15 -0000

Glad this has been thought about -- this idea just dawned on me this morning when reviewing the implications of microformats myself. Totally agree that, more broadly, the semantic web means your page fundamentally will be available for machine consumption, for better or worse. How to protect the worse seems to be the biggest issue confronting microformats currently.

Re: Useful Flash Messages in Rails

Julian — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:06:32 -0000

'user name and password do not MATCH' ?? What are you crazy -- what system recommends that user name and password be the same?

:)

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Julian — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:53:24 -0000

Awesome.

Is it worth having alt tags for accessibility?

I'd strongly also recommend a layout that gives more room for other languages; English is naturally terse so a good guideline is to add 20% space -- if you lay it out based on Portuguese you're mostly there I think.

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

Julian — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:07:14 -0000

“I didn’t see ONE feature that will get normal people to switch from the iPhone.”

Normal people won't buy the iPhone! :)

As for other phones -- it'll be cheap. The iPhone has been out what, a few months and yes it's a great status quo. But if you compare what Android does vs pretty much any other phone, it starts looking pretty competitive I reckon.