Comments for aKa Web Design http://blog.akawebdesign.com ...how a nerd sees the world-wide-web. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:30:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on How to Deal with Bad Clients by Ryan http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/07/22/how-to-deal-with-bad-clients/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 Ryan Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:30:26 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=459#comment-1440 Its funny, you couch this advice as how to deal with bad clients as a web developer but I think your advice is good enough to generalize to almost all consulting! Its funny, you couch this advice as how to deal with bad clients as a web developer but I think your advice is good enough to generalize to almost all consulting!

]]> Comment on Top 5 Snack Food Favorites by Andrew http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/05/24/top-5-snack-food-favorites/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 Andrew Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:58:41 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=436#comment-1404 This list is awesome, except I would exchange dr pepper for root beer and snickers for 3 musketeers. This list is awesome, except I would exchange dr pepper for root beer
and snickers for 3 musketeers.

]]> Comment on WTF? Unicode Byte Order Mark by Pim http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2009/12/10/wtf-unicode-byte-order-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Pim Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:38:02 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=303#comment-1388 I would recomment against saving files as UTF-8 without BOM. BOMs are very handy to define files as being UTF-8 encoded. Without a BOM, a UTF-8 file looks an awful lot like Windows-1252 or any other 8-bit character set. If you really, absolutely don't want anything to do with BOMs, just encode as Windows-1252 (or as Microsoft likes to call it, ANSI) and be BOM-free. In the case of HTML (or PHP or anything that outputs HTML) you can write unusual characters as character entities, so you won't need Unicode anyway. Pim I would recomment against saving files as UTF-8 without BOM.
BOMs are very handy to define files as being UTF-8 encoded. Without a BOM, a UTF-8 file looks an awful lot like Windows-1252 or any other 8-bit character set.

If you really, absolutely don’t want anything to do with BOMs, just encode as Windows-1252 (or as Microsoft likes to call it, ANSI) and be BOM-free. In the case of HTML (or PHP or anything that outputs HTML) you can write unusual characters as character entities, so you won’t need Unicode anyway.

Pim

]]> Comment on Web Application Architecture with ExtJS by Sanel http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/06/23/web-application-architecture-with-extjs/comment-page-1/#comment-1383 Sanel Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:31:24 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=481#comment-1383 Hi Arthur This is very useful post. It will help me a lot. Thanks Hi Arthur

This is very useful post. It will help me a lot. Thanks

]]> Comment on Opera Mini by Jake Kronika http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/05/11/opera-mini/comment-page-1/#comment-1340 Jake Kronika Wed, 12 May 2010 05:04:05 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=448#comment-1340 I may not have an iPhone or iPod, but can say that I have had a similar experience with Opera Mini for the Android. Though the speed of page loads are perceptibly improved due to compression algorihms built into the browser, I have to say that the lack of a zoom function (at least in an intuitive place) as well as its somewhat haphazard design, detract from the usability of the tool. I still look forward to updates in the hopes that this is just a matter of Beta-like bugs needing real-world use to be discovered and corrected. However, I won't hold my breath. I may not have an iPhone or iPod, but can say that I have had a similar experience with Opera Mini for the Android. Though the speed of page loads are perceptibly improved due to compression algorihms built into the browser, I have to say that the lack of a zoom function (at least in an intuitive place) as well as its somewhat haphazard design, detract from the usability of the tool. I still look forward to updates in the hopes that this is just a matter of Beta-like bugs needing real-world use to be discovered and corrected. However, I won’t hold my breath.

]]> Comment on Book Review: The Referral Engine by John Jantsch http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/05/10/book-review-the-referral-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 John Jantsch Mon, 10 May 2010 13:24:50 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=441#comment-1339 Thanks Authur - it's music to my ears (eyes I guess since I'm reading it) that you've already plucked something out and are doing it! Thanks Authur – it’s music to my ears (eyes I guess since I’m reading it) that you’ve already plucked something out and are doing it!

]]> Comment on WordPress Automatic Upgrades on GoDaddy by Marc Sheffner http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2010/01/30/wordpress-automatic-upgrades-on-godaddy/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Marc Sheffner Sun, 09 May 2010 04:37:44 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=385#comment-1337 Brilliant! Many thanks indeed. I was ridiculously overjoyed when the automatic upgrade finally worked without a hitch!! Particularly as I'm running the Japanese version of WordPress. Brilliant! Many thanks indeed. I was ridiculously overjoyed when the automatic upgrade finally worked without a hitch!! Particularly as I’m running the Japanese version of WordPress.

]]> Comment on Why I Hate Dreamweaver by Huw http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2009/05/20/why-i-hate-dreamweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-1321 Huw Wed, 05 May 2010 18:11:16 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=98#comment-1321 Dreamweaver is the most inappropriate name for anything ever. It suggests light hearted, whispie, fuzzie, niceness that allows you to put your creativity into action. In reality it is a heavyweight, boring, nurdie, geekie, unintuitive interface for doing highly structured codeing that only allows you to put thing in boring rows, columns and boxes. After years of development CS5 has now got an option to do rounded corners.. Yippee.. In another ten years it may let you do a circle!! Even MS Word could do that years ago. The program has no tools or interface that lets you lay out and move elements in any creative way. It is like lead type and blocks for print in cold metal 80 years ago. One day soon technology will allow designers to create web and other media as they have done on paper and now in programs like inDesign and Photoshop... with coding happening somehow you need never worry about. When that day comes all the smug, over paid "web developers" will be as redundant as Linotype compositors, Compugraphic typesetters and paste up staff. Dreamweaver is the most inappropriate name for anything ever.

It suggests light hearted, whispie, fuzzie, niceness that allows you to put your creativity into action.

In reality it is a heavyweight, boring, nurdie, geekie, unintuitive interface for doing highly structured codeing that only allows you to put thing in boring rows, columns and boxes.

After years of development CS5 has now got an option to do rounded corners.. Yippee.. In another ten years it may let you do a circle!! Even MS Word could do that years ago. The program has no tools or interface that lets you lay out and move elements in any creative way. It is like lead type and blocks for print in cold metal 80 years ago.

One day soon technology will allow designers to create web and other media as they have done on paper and now in programs like inDesign and Photoshop… with coding happening somehow you need never worry about. When that day comes all the smug, over paid “web developers” will be as redundant as Linotype compositors, Compugraphic typesetters and paste up staff.

]]> Comment on Custom colors for Ext.chart.* by Thomas K http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2009/10/08/custom-colors-for-ext-chart/comment-page-1/#comment-1234 Thomas K Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:30:52 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=253#comment-1234 Hi Arthur, moved the style-Part down from the Panel INTO the Piechart and it works... sometime an error is that stupid :) You made my day, thanks... Hi Arthur,

moved the style-Part down from the Panel INTO the Piechart and it works…
sometime an error is that stupid :)

You made my day, thanks…

]]> Comment on Custom colors for Ext.chart.* by Arthur Kay http://blog.akawebdesign.com/index.php/2009/10/08/custom-colors-for-ext-chart/comment-page-1/#comment-1233 Arthur Kay Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:31:21 +0000 http://blog.akawebdesign.com/?p=253#comment-1233 I wonder if it's a problem of scope. Have you used Firebug to debug that line? Does your variable have the values you expect at the time this line is executed? I wonder if it’s a problem of scope. Have you used Firebug to debug that line? Does your variable have the values you expect at the time this line is executed?

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