http://amindbesideitself.com Coffee Fuled Code Driven Chaos Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:43:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_124" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="WordPress 2.7 Dashboard"][/caption] The much anticipated and long awaited new WordPress release is due out any day now. Chock full of new features and a completely re-designed and customizable administrative back end WordPress 2.7 is geared to be the most user friendly, robust and customizable WordPress release ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/wordpress/wordpress-27-coming-soon-to-a-blog-near-you/ [caption id="attachment_109" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="CSS Font Conversion"][/caption] Often I find myself trying to remember what font size in pixels equals what font size in a percentage or em. I was on the verge of making a chart to serve as a quick guide when I came across a great reference that ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/design/css-font-chart/ [caption id="attachment_103" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Google Chrome"][/caption] Google has officially entered the web browser market. Yes, the company that seems to have its fingers dipped into almost every digital pie from their ever popular and robust search engine to their powerful and highly used email application Gmail. The Mountain View, California based company ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/web-development/there-is-a-new-browser-on-the-block-google-chrome/ http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/design/no-one-really-knows-what-web-developers-do/ [caption id="attachment_81" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="2008 ALA Survey"][/caption] A List Apart has compiled their series of survey questions for 2008 aimed at web professionals who work with and create websites and web based content. This survey began in 2007 in an attempt to "conduct a serious inquiry into the working conditions of ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/web-development/a-list-aparts-industry-survey-for-2008-has-cometh/ [caption id="attachment_73" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Official Camp Helper"][/caption] One of the hazards to running your own company is the loss of personal time. Finding time to do the little things in life such as sleeping, weekend getaways and doing my taxes seem to eaten up by the rigors or running my own ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/personal/vacation-whats-a-vacation/ [caption id="attachment_65" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="W.P. 2.6 Permalink Bug"][/caption] Some of my readers have noticed alot of broken links on my blog latley. I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.6 on my IIS server and it seems that there was a known bug that was not fixed by the WordPress team before the ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/wordpress/wordpress-26-iis-permalink-bug/ [caption id="attachment_52" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="A Better Search Engine?"][/caption] There is a new search engine on the block, Cuil. According to it's developers Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge and the developers of this new search application hope you will use it to gain some more of your own. "Cuil ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/design/tired-of-google-or-yahoo-have-you-heard-about-cuil/ The author of this video did a great job of presenting a nice little application with ColdFusion 8s "cfdiv" tag. I am totally going to play around with this over the weekend and see what I come up with :) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whjPKSqPl6c[/youtube] http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/coldfusion/a-great-video-on-the-coldfusion-8-cfdiv-tag/ My web development firm seems to be using XML more and more these days. It's reliable, scalable, easy to work with in every server environment and it integrates easily with every server scripting language we use. So you may be thinking, that sounds spiffy Paul, but what is it and what ... http://amindbesideitself.com/index.php/2008/web-development/what-is-xml-and-why-you-should-use-more-of-it/