Share what you know, Learn what you don’t. This is the evolution of one Afrikan.
_ CSS Beauty - SkillShare - My Top 12 CSS Articles/Tricks of 2005 (one for each month)
Here’s a list of articles and tricks that I’ve archived over the course of the 2005 year…
I went through my archives for every month and picked the ones that I thought were the best.
Some more cool CSS resources for you…
_ Content with Style: A CSS Framework
In my Modular CSS article I documented the possibility of breaking down stylesheets into components that could be reused across projects. All well and good. The next logical step is to extend this to become a CSS framework, allowing rapid development of sites with pre-written and tested components. All that’s really required to produce this is a set of naming conventions and a flexible base template…
I’ve been looking at frameworks in general and PHP ones specifically for about 2 weeks now, and came accross this CSS framework while doing some research / reading - and I think it’s about time!
After a quick unzip and look under the hood, I reckon it’s really, really neat, and something I will make use of from now on. Thanks Mike 
_ Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference.
Nice once
_ Trees or Humans? – A Battle of Survival with Increasing CO2 Levels - Environment Blog
An interesting piece on CO2 levels and their effect on forests… “A new finding reveals that forest productivity may be significantly greater in an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide.“
If you’re a freelancer in the London area, and you’re looking for some short term work next week for probably 3 days, then please contact me asap, with your rates and your portfolio. We’ve got a corporate client that we’re building a website for and we need someone to help out with the HTML/CSS coding.
If you’re not, but you know someone who is, then please send the link to them!
Thanks
The great thing about developing software is that it gives you the satisfaction of knowing that you’re building something that people take joy in using… The tough part is monetizing it so that you don’t lose money and time. Seems simple enough, but it’s a lot harder than you think if you don’t do the math and the modelling up front.
I’ve got a financial meeting coming up soon, and these are some questions I’ve put together to get us asking the right questions before we totally and completely commit ourselves to something that could otherwise be doomed to failure from the beginning. They too may help you to ask the right questions…
Decide on various elements involved in bootstrapping:
once off hardware setup costs
once off software costs
once off development costs
once off design, branding and printing costs
once off merchant account costs
once off legal fees
once off marketing costs
once off translation services
Decide on various elements involved in monthly running costs:
perpetual hardware and support costs
perpetual marketing costs
perpetual support costs
perpetual office and infrastructure costs
Decide on pricing model for introductory three tiered model, using current similiar services as a benchmark:
beginner: $x
intermediate: $x
advanced: $x
Develop a matrix in a spreadsheet to test various qualifying questions:
what income do we need each month to breakeven on costs without salaries?
how many accounts is that?
what growth rate will we need to pay back initial investment costs within a year / 18 months / 2 years?
what revenue do we need to start paying salaries to take this full time?
what revenue do we need monthly to start hiring another 2 employees?
Unless you can answer these simple questions confidently and without exaggerating the numbers, you don’t have a sustainable business. Anyone who says “we need 1% of a billion dollar a year market to make money” is both foolish and needs a wake up slap. It doesn’t work like that…
Anyone got anything else they can add? Comments from experience? Further insights?
Launchpad is a collection of services for projects in the open source universe. You can register your project, and then collaborate with the open source community on translations, bug tracking and code.
# Sharing data is a real headache with pre-packaged software. Online software uses the Internet as a ready-made network. Real-time data can be shared to connect multiple users and multiple connections.
# With pre-packaged software, you usually have to pay for maintenance and support. With online software, inevitably support is free and there’s no maintenance required.
# What happens when there’s a new version of your pre-packaged product? More expense right? Online software is constantly upgraded and kept up-to-date for free.
David runs through a pretty compelling argument for software as a service, where for me the above points are some of the highlights when thinking of the benefits thereof…
I know David (Director of Farrellsoft) has recently launched a service called BusinessITOnline and this blog is about what they’re doing, so you might enjoy popping in from time to time to see how things go
_ TylerHall.ws - Defining CSS Constants using PHP
I’ve been waiting for an opportunity and excuse to try this out… wonder what would happen if you started added USER_AGENT switches into a style sheet to make the stylesheet work on all browser platforms?
Personally, I think that’s cleaner and more efficient than some of the current hacks/solutions, but then you have to know that the designer working on the stylesheet can read and write basic php… which is probably more of an issue than actually doing it…
Marie: “I’ll be there on Saturday. It’ll give me a chance to have a butcher’s at the hundreds of photos of Su’s 40th.”
Butcher’s = Butcher’s hook = look
If you’ve lived in England for any length of time, you’d have picked up one or two pieces of slang that keep you safe on the 157 nightbus from centre of town at 3 in the morning… So this was pretty funny to read
Hat tip: Cliff’s briefs…
Have been hit by comment spammers the whole day - anyone else getting it?
_ What’s New in WordPress 2.0? · Asymptomatic
One important note before we begin: Many of the changes in WordPress from 1.5 to 2.0 are under the hood. They are things that you’re not going to notice unless you are developer. There are some features that casual users will notice that are significant, but (in my opinion) most of the real change has happened where most people won’t see.
looking forward to it
_ blog.openboxsoftware.com » Blog Archive » Encarta Instant Answers on MSNM
Of course Encarta Instant Answers dropped offline just as I tried to show it to someone. But not before I asked “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?â€
Pretty neat eh?
hat tip: Malcolm
_ FCKeditor Plugin：ChenPress « WordPress Support
It’s a WordPress WYSIWYG plugin which replace the default editor with FCKeditor 2.0 FC.
I’m of the opinion that Wordpress is perhaps one of the best blogging tools out there, for several reasons.
I think it’s one flaw is that the content writing tool (that adds the text decoration bits and pieces) is not the easiest to use if you don’t know html…
A little bit of searching led to this, which looks like it’s pretty cool - but I’ve not installed it yet…
Has anyone played with it at all?
Welcome to the personal blog of Gareth Knight. On web 2.0, technology, living in London, business, software, the web, Africa and sustainability. This is the evolution of one Afrikan.
Latest Comments
RSSAllison
Johan, Gareth Knight, macn00dl3
RussMac, Kiran Kashalkar, Kiran Kashalka, ani, jason, Gareth Knight, Ani, gbuster, Staanakaalicia, Gareth Knight [...]
xut, Joe, gefail, andrew, Kerry, Victoria, Henry, Gareth Knight, Sorero, Gareth Knight [...]
IntesteLanK, IntesteLanK, aLL cLoWnS aRe eViL, Oli, ben, Gareth Knight, ben, Gareth Knight, ben, Gareth Knight [...]
Shaun Dewberry