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Yesterday I discovered a migic little for making mobile-friendly sites, its the viewport meta tag. It goes something like this:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">

It tells the browser to set the page width to the same size as the targets screen (I am pretty sure it gets mostly ignored on desktop browsers)
This allows you to create variable width pages that will look right on almost any size of screen. Though there are still a few more tricks to perform to make everything look right all of the time. Head on over to HTML5 Rocks for more info.

Microsoft has decided that all of their new products will only install on vista or Windows 7. They do this even if there is absolutely NO REASON for this restriction. Examples are their folder syncing tool, IE 10 and other tools and applications. The newest tool I have found not offered for XP is the phone7 SDK and development IDE (based on Visual Studios 10) Visual studios 10 works just fine on XP and is supported, but not the SDK for the phone? Why, Microsoft? WHY? Don't you want people making apps for your new offering? Don't you want some market share?

But there is a kicker... the SDK and IDE are completely compatible with XP. There is no reason to exclude XP other then to force upgrade to windows 7. Here is how to install it. It's as easy as changing two values in a text file

http://www.redfrogfish.com/483/how-to-install-windows-phone-7-developer-tools-on-windows-xp/

This page is to have a central location to evaluate new logo ideas and designes.

Currently we are fowlowing a line leading us to a tree oriented seal as a logo. We may get derailed though.

 

Should this go on the wiki?

 

Just recently there was a conviction of one David C. Kernell, a college student who has been found guilty of of obstruction of justice and a misdemeanor count of unauthorized access to a computer. While I agree completely with the second ruling, even if I think the penalty for that crime is still too high, I completely disagree with the first.

Read why...

Drupal, in its attempt (or its creators attempt) to be efficient and fast caches files. I assume they are in memory (well, in a mysql table that is stored in memory.) But that's all really beside the point. I was trying to get google's webmaster tools to verify a test site and discovered that even though I could view the source of the page and see the required tags, it still wouldn't work.