http://glenpike.co.uk/blog flash: blah blah, annoyances: grr grr, life: yeah yeah Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:01:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's the largest of the 52 United States of America? http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=44 Finally we have some proper snow in Cornwall... It's been about 5 years in the making, but today the weather let rip and gave us a good dousing of the cold white flakes. As per usual, as soon as the first flakes fall they shortcircuit everyone's ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=36 I have been freelancing for the past year and was getting on okay, but in July I stumbled across a job advert that spiked my curiosity. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I applied for the job, got an interview, trialed - part time over 2 months and ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=35 Great, yet another browser to test things on - by rights, my code that works in Firefox 2, should work in Firefox 3, but checking through a site I had built recently, I noticed my floats were not floating. http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=34 So much for my rant about relying on Google to much - I have been running Google Chrome too, yes I admit it, but hey as a web developer, I have to check out browsers to make sure my sites don't break... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=33 Why does the whole world seem to revolve around Google... I have been trying to work on 3 different web projects today and have been hampered because something is wrong with Google - i.e. their entire infrastructure appears to be down from where I am sitting. This would not seem to be ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=32 Working on a revamp of a website, I decided to try out SWFAddress to make the back button work instead of a hand-rolled solution... I managed to get this up and running really quickly, which was nice, but then I spent 2 hours working out why it no longer worked when ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=30 I received a cool poster through the post today, courtesy of Ethan Eismann, who works for Adobe. http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/2008/02/25/poster-for-adobe-air-launch/ Ethan ran a mini-competition on his blog asking for the best comments on "optimisation" and I got an email a few days later saying mine was the best out of 4.  I had not ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=29 Tip of the day for Dreamweaver users. If you are doing a search and replace for ellipses with the corresponding HTML entity - … - remember to turn off the "Regular Expressions" check box, especially if you have selected "Entire Current Local Site. Otherwise your computer sits there and starts making pretty ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=26 I finished a big project last week for Surfers Against Sewage called Save Our Seas. This is another free educational resource like Operation Beach Clean which I had done previously. Anyway, this time I did some animation myself and also re-used part of the intro from OBC, adding some extra audio and ... http://glenpike.co.uk/blog/?p=24