Posted by Bryan | Posted on 22-02-2010
Category : Web
Tags: attachments, flash, flashblocker, gmail, multiple files
I never really noticed before, but Gmail uses Flash for uploading attachments. My wife noticed that she wasn’t able to upload multiple files at once when composing an email in Gmail. At first we though maybe it was the recent Firefox update, but then I remembered that she had just installed the Flashblock add-on for Firefox. This add-on is great for preventing Flash advertisements and other autoplay Flash movies. Usually you can still see where a Flash movie was blocked, but not in Gmail since the Google developers have done such a great job of gracefully degrading to a standard file upload control.
It’s easy to add sites to the Flashblock Whitelist, allowing Flash to load on those domains in the list. Just go to ‘Tools>Add-Ons’ then select Flashblock. Click on the ‘Preferences’ button, then ‘Whitelist’. Here you type the web site URL without adding the protocol, which for Gmail would be mail.google.com. Click ‘OK’ then close the Add-ons window. The Whitelist takes effect instantly, so you can start composing a new email right away and add multiple attachments to it.
Posted by Bryan | Posted on 06-02-2010
Category : Work
Muddy Paws Pet Sitting and Dog Walking needed a small, clean site which would could be grown as needed. Their logo and initial design for the Web site was done by Dianna Bougher. I converted that design into a WordPress theme. I am also providing hosting for the Muddy Paws Pet Sitting and Dog Walking site.
Muddy Paws Pet Sitting & Dog Walking
Posted by Bryan | Posted on 28-10-2009
Category : Randomness
Tags: matt, nfl, quarterbacks, wordle
There seem to be a lot of active NFL quarterbacks named Matt.
After one full week of having a new BlackBerry Tour 9630, I thought I’d write a quick review. This is my first BlackBerry, so there is a little learning curve to the operating system. I have been using an iPod Touch for several months and my phone for the last two years has been a Sony Ericson w580i, so the QWERTY keyboard is also taking a little adjustment. Overall, I find the messaging to be exceptional. Surfing the web in the BlackBerry browser isn’t quite as smooth as Safari on the iPod Touch/iPhone, but it isn’t bad experience.
Out of the box
I had one issue before I even started using the Tour. I took it out of the box and had a bit of trouble getting the battery cover off. The instructions weren’t really clear. I had to push up the silver latch then pry open the bottom of the cover with a fingernail.
WiFi would be a nice feature.
It would be nice if the headset jack was on top rather than on the side.
For the second time, I was able to attend An Event Apart, a great “two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design.” The conference was founded by, and includes presentations by, Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. Both have authored essential books for any bookshelf sitting beside someone who works on Web sites.
This year’s AEA in Seattle was held at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. This was a very hospitable venue on Seattle’s waterfront, between the cruise terminal and Anthony’s Pier 66 restaurant.
There was a fantastic mix of web standards advocates, user experience gurus and content specialists at this year’s conference. Some of the highlights for me was the form design session by Luke Wroblewski, the passionate presentation by Kristina Halvorson on the need for a web content strategy and Dan Cederholm’s presentation on why you shouldn’t worry about making sites look EXACTLY the same in all browsers.
Posted by Bryan | Posted on 30-03-2009
Category : WebDev, WordPress
This is a short post to test whether or not I correctly spliced this bit.ly PHP code into the Twitme Wordpress plugin I am using. If it works, I’ll expand on this post later.
UPDATE: Well, it seems to work. I basically just copied the code from James Cridland and replaced the TimesURL class that Twitme was using.
I was surprised to get a comment this morning from Johnny Mast saying he was going to use the Cridland code in Twitme 1.6.9.3 which just came out today. This would have happened without my help, but I feel like I had at least a bit part in this taking place.
Check out Twitme!
Posted by Bryan | Posted on 28-01-2009
Category : WordPress
I just installed an update to the Multi-level Navigation Plugin for WordPress on one of my sites and was briefly confused when only one page was showing up in the menu. Turns out the page I had set to ‘exclude’ got switched to ‘include’ so it was only displaying the page I wanted to be left off of the menu.
Easy fix. Just go to your Dashboard and select Settings>Multi-level Navigation Plugin. Under the Menu Contents page, scroll down to the Modifications section. Just review your settings where it says ‘Pages to include or exclude in the main menu’. I just had to change the dropdown from ‘include’ to ‘exclude’.
Posted by Bryan | Posted on 07-01-2009
Category : Transportation
Tags: Fuel Economy
Total Quantity Purchased (Gallons) : 256.908
Total Cost ($): $969.37
Average Price ($/G): 3.784
Average Fuel Economy (MPG): 47.12
Total # Fill-ups: 24
Just want to thank the person that visited my site from the Supporters page at Exit133.com and let me know that one of the RSS feeds being displayed on my site was throwing some errors. But, while I appreciate the heads up, using the term “Epic Fail” is a little uncalled for. I don’t think some error messages constitute a catastrophic failure. Perhaps you just learned a new term and are overusing it. I don’t claim to have an ultra-stable site, I am using nightly builds of the WordPress 2.7 Beta and try out different themes, so some glitches are expected. Plus, I don’t tend to visit my own site very often, so thanks again for pointing out the errors.
