Blog
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Net neutrality rant by Pascal Opitz
So I’m reading the guardian technology section today, and a rant about how net neutrality seemingly incapacitates the internet by making it possible for content providers like youtube to eat up the whole bandwidth.
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Remove the mac sync icon in Leopard by Pascal Opitz
Lim Kien Hean describes the removal of the .mac sync icon from the OSX top bar as a small but important trick. I happen to agree! Thanks.
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XML Serialization and PHP Reflection by Pascal Opitz
Browsing the web for a way to serialize PHP objects into XML I came across this interesting thread
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PHP Benchmark by Pascal Opitz
Via Peter Mescalchin I got hold of this PHP benchmark.
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likes and don't likes by Pascal Opitz
Just because I’m working with things …
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MVC explanations - I love mailing lists by Pascal Opitz
I came across this very elaborate explanation of MVC in a python mailing list. Just want to take this as an occasion to say thank you to all people that take time to explain things in mailing lists.
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Hi guys, what's happening with CwS? by Pascal Opitz
Good question! We were about to ask ourselves the same question. Even though Matthias came up with a new article today, we cannot deny that not much that has happened here in the past couple of months. We’re basically facing some descisions wether to leave CwS to die quietly, or to keep it alive …
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Meebo firefox extension by Pascal Opitz
Since I’m a great fan of meebo and consider it one of the best examples for an AJAX application, I am pretty thrilled to see the meebo Firefox extension .
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Security: Even the simple stuff is hard it seems! by Pascal Opitz
So I am reading about the bug in IE that puts your FTP details into the comments plaintext ...
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Unitless line height in CSS by Pascal Opitz
For a couple of years now I keep stressing the fact that line-height works best when you don’t provide a unit. And I am not saying this for no reason.
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PHP & Mysql socket error by Pascal Opitz
I keep coming across this whenever I set up MySQL and PHP on a mac: mysql_connect() fails throwing an error …
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Sorting by date with XSL by Pascal Opitz
XSLT architect Miguel de Melo gives an insight into the sorting capabilities of XSL in his article Sort by date greater than other date
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Firebug can make life easier by Pascal Opitz
Today I was pointed to a couple of handy functionalities in the Firebug plugin by Peter Mescalchin, who’s one of the UI developers I am currently working with.
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How long have I been waiting for this? by Pascal Opitz
It must be since I heard the word entity first. Check out this brilliant entity reference. Via ajaxian.
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Hip hip, hooray by Pascal Opitz
We did it. After more than one year we have a new article online.
I wrote Templates from Babel? being involved in the development of an XSL driven CMS for Redwire … -
DOs and DONTs in XSLT by Pascal Opitz
A nice little roundup of how to efficiently use XSLT can be found here
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Unit Tests in JavaScript by Pascal Opitz
I don’t know how many of you guys out there are seriously testing their javascript applications, and how you do approach tesing them. I, until now, have been doing the good old step by step alert thing …
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301 redirect with mod_rewrite by Pascal Opitz
So I changed my domain name from .de to .com. But wasn’t there something whereas Google would punish double-posted content with pagerank 0?
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mod_deflate and IE6 bug by Pascal Opitz
This one was very strange. IE 6.0.29 would randomly come up with white pages.
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You might have noticed: There are some ads now. by Pascal Opitz
I kept trying to avoid them, but in the end of the day I cannot see why bandwidth gets burned up without any cost return. And everyone else does seem to do it.
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Swapping nodes in a DOM tree by Pascal Opitz
I was quite surprised to find out that the insertBefore method actually does most of the job for you.
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php: array_diff_assoc and the order of parameters by Pascal Opitz
This took a while till I found out: They actually do matter! Even worse: The manual says so!!!! Just that I was to stupid to read it. Lesson learned. No more guessing, no more quick reading!
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generate PDF with XSL-FO and FOP by Matthias Willerich
some quick tips about installing and configuring Apache FOP to create PDFs with embedded fonts in print resolution.
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Browser based vector rendering by Pascal Opitz
Today I came along a demo for the Ajax3d engine, an entirely JavaScript based 3d engine that utilizes the canvas tag for rendering vector based graphics.
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Looking for a front-end dev by Mike Stenhouse
Wordtracker are looking for a front end developer to take over from me.
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Wine, Photoshop & "save for web" by Pascal Opitz
Tom did find out about this one for me: The trick is to execute Photoshop with quotes around the path and backslashes in it.
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Outlook 2007 and those bloody HTML emails by Pascal Opitz
Microsoft comes up with a great way of rendering emails in Outlook 2007 which might cause Matthias to refuse doing any HTML formatted emails in the future.
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Ndiswrapper and Fedora Core 6 by Pascal Opitz
How to set up a DWL-G650+ Wireless card for Fedora core 6.
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Javascript libraries by Matthias Willerich
With new(ish) releases of mooTools and jQuery, both racing for the smallest sized libraries and the most effective code, what do you use for your Javascript needs?
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fulltext & weighted relevance by Pascal Opitz
Via JV Multimedia
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CwS 2006 - a little summary by Pascal Opitz
With 2006 nearly over it’s time for a little look back on what happened with CwS throughout the year.
2006 came with some major difficulties and changes for us. ... -
XML validation in PHP by Pascal Opitz
Working with user input that needs to be valid XML, it turns out that PHP5 has a built-in validation function.
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IE7 and how it changes the web by Pascal Opitz
Simon Griffin from etre sent us a rather interesting email about some research they’ve done on IE7 …
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XSL:TEXT, CDATA and PHP5 by Pascal Opitz
Right, so I am applying disable-output-escaping="yes" on an xsl:text element containing some CDATA, but the output is still coming with escaped entities …
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Find and Replace and some more VIM tuning by Pascal Opitz
Awkward at first glance VIM has become my editor of choice.
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Checking for object literals by Pascal Opitz
Such a basic thing to do, but still, I didn’t have to do it until now: Checking if an object literal is defined.
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IE Conditional comments in XSL by Pascal Opitz
Just a small bit of code, but not obious at first glance …
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PHP and MP3s by Pascal Opitz
While setting up a media server for the Netaudio Festival I had not only to set up a dedicated machine with samba shares, Webserver and Web based interface, but also to play around with mp3s and ID3 tags …
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Register PHP functions in XSL by Pascal Opitz
Working with PHP5 and the built-in XSLT processor I came accross the method registerPHPFunctions that lets you register PHP functions in XSL. Quite a neat feature. Wonder how much that slows the transformation down?
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Hybrid Flash Developers: A unique species by Matthias Willerich
Should we all strive to have a more general knowledge in our field of work?
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Netaudio'06: London Netlabel Festival by Pascal Opitz
CwS supports London’s first netlabel festival with more than 30 artists from all over the world. Netaudio’06 takesplace on the 15th and 16th of September 2006 at Candid Arts Gallery and Electrowerkz, next to Angel tube station, London.
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UTF-8 based transformation output in .Net by Pascal Opitz
Using XSL transformations in .Net I came accross the weird behaviour that my transformations would be UTF-16 encoded even though I specified UTF-8 in the
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PHP Script: Timeshift in Subtitle Files by Pascal Opitz
Have you ever tried to watch a movie with a .srt file, and the subtitle was more or less out of time? You can use this little PHP script through commandline and fix it by providing an offset.
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CrunchBoard by Mike Stenhouse
TechCrunch launch a jobs board.
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Problem: Dependencies by Pascal Opitz
This time I have a problem, but no solution yet. It’s all about dependencies.
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Safari, Ajax and the back button by Matthias Willerich
Back button solutions are plenty, even available for Safari, but which one is the leanest and bestest?
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Ctrl+Shift+F at the developer toolbar party by Matthias Willerich
This is my find of the day: Firefox developer toolbar Ctrl + Shift + F, also “display element information” under Information.
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REST and some unknown verbs by Pascal Opitz
Doing a little research on REST I came accross a couple of interesting reads and discovered the lost verb in the HTTP language …
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Narrative JavaScript by Pascal Opitz
This is an extension to javascript that will be compiled into javascript afterwards, and helps you to write readable code by introducing the “blocking” operator (notated as ’->’).
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Spam and some other things ... by Pascal Opitz
Sadly we lately have to deal with unpleasant things. One is the comment spam, that actually is getting worse and worse. But since Mike did write his latest article with a bit of a tabloid title we have to deal with some other things as well …
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Disabling text selection by Mike Stenhouse
Stopping your users from selecting a page’s content text.
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quick MySQL nice-to-know by Matthias Willerich
some basic thoughts around how I’m using MySQL. I just found the manual, it seems.
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CSS Framework Design Competition by Mike Stenhouse
AppFuse template design competition based on the CwS CSS Framework.
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IE7 and its problems by Pascal Opitz
As Mike was busy doing this already on his blog donotremove.com I quickly debugged our site for the public IE7 beta 2 that came out today. Like Mike pointed out correctly, most problems are gone once you updated the clearfix hack for IE7.
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php: array_filter and callback function by Pascal Opitz
Sometimes array_pop is just not enough. You might have to strip out something from an array that is 2 dimensional or do some more complicated adjustments to the array values. In this case you can use array_filter and a callback function.
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AJAX Training from Clearleft by Mike Stenhouse
Ajax training from Clearleft, DOM scripting, Hijax and Web 2.0 accessibility.
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XSL and DTD by Pascal Opitz
A quick code snippet to include the right XHTML DTD in your XSL generated output.
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Mono sounds Sharp by Pascal Opitz
If platform specifications change sometimes one has to make the descision if the application needs to be ported or if there is another way. My research about porting .Net applications reveals a surprisingly great range of Open Source tools.
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Join Less Rain by Matthias Willerich
Less Rain Ltd, the workplace of Content with Style author Matthias Willerich, are currently looking for a Flash developer based in London. Yes, this exerpt is stolen from Pascal.
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Emergent design by Mike Stenhouse
Getting things done from emergent design and unit testing. The concepts all fit together quite nicely, once you get into it.
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Relaunch: DoNotRemove by Pascal Opitz
The homepage of Content with Style author Mike Stenhouse, to be found at www.donotremove.co.uk, just got a huge makeover. We must say it looks stunning. Congratulations Mike!
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PHP Unit testing tutorial by Pascal Opitz
During the research for my upcoming article about comments and code I came accross this interesting tutorial on unit testing. It gives you a quick insight into how test driven design works with SimpleTest and PHP.
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Faster website moving with lftp by Pascal Opitz
Consider lftp to be the better alternative to ftp when it comes to moving your website. Unlike the standard ftp command line client it had the function “mirror” ...
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EXSLT by Pascal Opitz
EXSLT is an extension kit for XSL. A collection of templates that can be used from within an XSL transformation to perform mathematic operation, string manipulations or working with reg-exp.
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Offtime, moving and some changes by Pascal Opitz
Ok, some might have noticed that this site was offline for a couple of days. That is because our previous host, hostgator.com, didn’t like the site on a reseller hosting as it was causing a bit of load. So they decided to move it to a slow dedicated server and give us a very short period of time to change to another hosting plan or be switched off, and on top of that they managed to fuck up the site and all of our email during this stunt.
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Blog section opened by Pascal Opitz
Welcome to The new blog section on the CwS website.
Quick links
Other people's articles that we think you might be interested in:
- How To Use Valid XHTML Tags in TextMate
- 125 Social Bookmarking Sites : Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links
- Email Standards Project
- Use Gmail to generate unlimited e-mail addresses
- A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection
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