I'm trying to read the "from" and "subject" fields from the messages in a POP3 mailbox (I don't care about the content of the messages), and have cobbled together the following code from online examples:
use Net::POP3;
# $MAILSERVER,$MAILUSER,$MAILPASS defined here!
# Constructors
$pop =...
Correction of the Year" from Australia's Morning Bulletin:
More info and comment at http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2951
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I don't know who half these "celebrities" are, but this is still pretty funny:
http://walyou.com/if-web-browsers-were-celebrities-infographic/
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Extra Connections Ltd
This is rather neat - the elements of HTML5 arranged in a periodic table:
http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html
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Extra Connections Ltd
Sensible standards for the use of CSS on one of the "big beasts" of the internet:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/css.shtml
Worth following on our own more humble projects.
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Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
Inspired by Thadeus' thread thread1256-1613926 , here's a similar one. I was wrestling with this when writing a blog post a few days back:
Is there a word which describes the property of "having a good view", as applied to a building.
There are words like scenic and picturesque - but those...
I'm having trouble retrieving the contents of a Storable file after (I assume) my hosts have upgraded Perl. The error message I get is:
Some googling suggests that this can be fixed by setting $Storable::interwork_56_64bit, but this doesn't seem to be helping. Here's what I tried...
I'm reworking the layout of one of my sites, I'd be interested to hear any feedback anyone might have. The link below is broken to keep it out of search engines:
http://www.leicesteryha.org.uk / newdesign.htm
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Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
Better than your average free font site, this one will download all the files you need to embed a custom font in a web page - including the CSS.
You can also upload your own fonts and they'll generate the files you need.
Very useful site
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
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Webmaster &...
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/02/microsoft-admits-windows-updates-principally-created-to-annoy/
-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
I can't help thinking of Principal Skinner when I read this (somewhat bizarre) story:
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_313233045.html
-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
This looks interesting - a Ruby program that allows you to use variables and other useful goodies in your style sheets.
See http://lesscss.org
-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
An interesting survey has been published by WebAIM which asks screenreader users what they find difficult, or easy, to deal with on web pages. Their answers don't always concur with received wisdom on accessibility good practice, so it might cause you to re-think what you're doing on your...
I SO want to go and see this movie:
http://imaginary-review.blogspot.com/2008/07/film-review-eats-shoots-and-leaves.html
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Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
I'd be interested to hear any comments you guys might have about my latest website. As the url probably makes clear, it's another personal project...
http://chrishuntphotography.co.uk
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Extra Connections Ltd
Sometimes it can be useful to derive a palette of colours from a photograph, maybe because you need to use that picture on your page, maybe just for inspiration
Here's a tool that automates the process - give it the URL of an image, it comes back with a set of colours...
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