Gasp. I wanted to get vers.us a few hours earlier when it became available, but some lucky bastard got it first. Too bad. Back to my offline stuff.
Author: Ozh
Offline for a Month
It's that time again. Time to take a breath, to switch computers off, to read tons of books, to go for a dive and for a walk. See you in a few weeks :)
Firefox Myths. A bit of controversy can do no harm.
36 Quai des Orfèvres, piraté sur Google Video. Un peu petit mais très utilisable d'ailleurs, je n'avais jamais remarqué qu'on pouvait aussi facilement naviguer dans la video sans attendre 1 heure qu'un buffer se remplisse.
Sorry. Your screen name is already taken !
Arrrrrgh. There's two thing I hate when registering with a new website or service. First one is when they ask for logins longer than 3 letters. When I'd like to keep things simple and use the same 'Ozh' as a login across a thousand websites, I end up registering (and forgetting) gazillions of ozhy, ozhozh, ozh1, ozhozhozh, MrOzh and such…
Technorati Sub 1000
w00t ! A 3 figure Technorati rank was one of my meaningless goals for this year, and it just happened. Thanks everybody :)
Javascript quick reference for newbies : inserting content
Situation : You want to insert some simple content into a DOM element. Since you happen to be a javascript n00b like me who always forget how to do it, and you don't want to use a 60 kb prototype.js for your 10 javascript lines project, you thought it would be useful to write down once for all how this…
Scary: 33% of UK & US big companies (1000+ employees) read their employees emails (source , a .pdf report)
Girl on Toboggan: I have no clue why someone would use such an animated gif, but well, I spent like 3 minutes staring at it :)
PHP GD : imagecolorallocate() Limitation
Did you know it ? PHP GD's imagecolorallocate() can only allocate 255 colors in a palette based image created by imagecreate() (no such limitation when you use function imagecreatetruecolors() by the way). This sounds pretty stupid as well as rather undocumented, but anyway, here is a new version of my GD Gradient Fill PHP class, which now produces correct colors…