Windows 7 Font Corruption!
I’ve been running Windows 7 for about a week now. I’m impressed! It’s like what Vista should have been. Anyway, after uninstalling a copy of Left 4 Dead yesterday, to my surprise all my fonts turned bold or italics. I mean every font. System dialogs, PuTTY windows, everything. A friend of mine pointed me to a solution he found, on Yahoo! Answers of all places!
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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Usability? Nobody is going to use this!
I file the topic of usability in with design. Not something I often pay attention too.
Recent explorations into jQueryUI led me to discovering a great article on the subject of tab control design @ useit.com. Jakob’s website is a treasure trove of articles all about useability in IT which make for good reading during downtime.
Is there some sort of standard or ruleset for web usability?
Another link I found: http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:17 am
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LiveDocx: Create DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF
Just a quick post to share with you a service I found over the weekend. The site is called LiveDocx, and with a free membership you get all the tools you need to be able to generate DOCX, DOC, RTF and PDF documents on the fly from templates!
September 8th, 2009 at 9:25 am
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Database Normalization…. ?
Hanging out in the #mysql channel on Freenode the other night, some members were talking about database normalization. I wasn’t sure what that term meant, so I followed the links that were pasted to find out more. What I discovered was that these ‘normalization rules’ are very practical guidelines for schema creation that I’ve been using for years without knowing what they were called!
In the following article I start looking at the actual rules, and why they can be helpful!
Creating XLS Files With PHP
For many years, whenever one of my web applications needed to output tabular data I’d rely on CSV format. This does the trick for most data, as Excel and most other spreadsheet programs will open CSV’s without a problem. What happens when you want to get a little fancier though? Maybe include some formatting on columns, or even embed images?
In that case CSV doesn’t cut it anymore. I had to investigate some methods of generating a valid XLS file directly with PHP.