Archive for March, 2008



The internet is awash in video. YouTube, Yahoo Video, and other video sites host millions of videos with little attention to close captioning. For many sites, the text translations exist, they simply are not used. This sucks. Television shows have featured captioning for many years. It’s sometimes the only way to figure out what they [...]

Did you upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and now discover a fatal error? You may see this error when you log into the admin section if you have enabled the K2 sidebar manager: Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /home/.foo/bar/mywebsite.com/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31. Brad at ChaoticTech has created a simple solution. Here’s why: WordPress [...]

I’m working on a new theme for WordPress. It’s a generic theme that I hope will make it easier to build multiple business sites in the future. Part of the goal is integrating the Yahoo! YUI library into the superb K2 theme. I’ve come across a problem that should be easy to solve. WordPress allows [...]

IE7 and IE8 hack behavior

We’ve had the luxury of hacks to fine tune Internet Explorer bugs. Internet Explorer 7 disabled the majority of hacks, with the exception of the * hack. This hack allowed you to send a style only to Internet Explorer by prefacing an attribute with an asterisk. /*this is for all browsers*/ #main p {color:black;} /* [...]

The MIX 2008 conference is this week and Microsoft is showing off some of their latest tools. One of these is the much anticipated and discussed Internet Explorer 8 browser. It’s important to remember that this is still a beta 1 release and is much better than the IE7 beta 1. This one actually has [...]




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