I’ve not posted about this before now, even though the network has been operational for a few months now. I am a founding member of a new Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network that allows anybody to talk with friends for free. The network is comprised of four geographically diverse servers, two of which are my own. The network is run by Nicholas “Cubezero” Weightman, David “Wellard” Fullard, and Myself (Lucy Llewellyn).

The topic of this post begins with Adobe. And ends with more frustration. Yes, I’m fed up of Adobe claiming to be the Web Developer’s go-to guy for software to enable advanced techniques in building the future Web. Actually, I’m fed up with them claiming that and then conspicuously ignoring a large part of the developer market who use Linux as their main operating system of choice. This rant comes from spotting the release into the wild of Edge Reflow a tool to aid the development of responsive websites.

I’ve made my first foray into the world of Web Components by making one of my very own. Called Banner-bar it allows to create a simple horizontal banner along the top of a page with support for a logo and link. The banner has a nice shadow offsetting it from the content below, and is fully responsive. Check out the example and code at github

Over the years I’ve acquired a rather large music collection of about 100GB or 17000 files. Unfortunately a lot of these are badly labelled and categorised. Music files such as MP3 have the option to store so-called “metadata” or (information/data about data) which describes the music stored within the same file. This is the so-called id3 tagging system. When you rip a music CD you can lookup the track numbers and names with a service such as CDDB and then write this information within the file.

What follows is a response to many requests about how to set up a local environment of WordPress. The manual wayThis first list is how my colleagues taught me to set up development sites on my local PC such that each client gets their own URL which maps to 127.0.0.1. This keeps WordPress happy and makes isolation simple and effective. edit /etc/hosts (or on Windows c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) and add an entry for <client>.

OOPS! With some minor tweaking to the CSS that determines how my site looks when viewed in a web browser I managed to completely kill all clickable links. The good news is that I’ve since spotted the mistake and have implemented a fix. The issue was with the “view in mobile” text at the very bottom of every page. In effect my changes had made this item be the entire height of the document and overlaid on top of everything else.