CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

"Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to minimize the time for bug hunting you need to understand, how browsers interpret your code. And to understand that, you need to have a firm understanding on how specificity works. In most cases such problems are caused by the simple fact that somewhere among your CSS-rules you’ve defined a more specific selector."

• Smashing magazine - CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

SysTrayMeter

This small, lightweight program stays in the status bar after start and displays cpu and memory usage information.

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Task Bar Shuffle

This nifty little application stays in the user's taskbar and allows the user to rearrange the taskbar buttons, and system tray icons (the latter requires the Ctr key to be pressed).

• Homepage and download

(You can also click on the image to go to the link. From now on, clicking the images in my posts will take the readers to the respective link.)

Openlibrary

Contains a collection of very boring books, but the Openlibrary website is incredibly well done.

Stick - screentabs for Windows

After the first few clicks the application crashed, but aside from that I found Stick a very useful application.

Extended ASCII table

A new favorite actress

I have a new favorite actress, Charlotte Ayanna. You could meet her in the pretty good 2006 movie The Insatiable in which she plays Tatiana.

How to Get the Current Page URL in PHP

function CurrentURL()
{
$url = 'http';

if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on")
{
$url .= "s";
}

$url .= "://";

if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80")
{
$url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".
$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}
else
{
$url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}

return $url;
}
?>

CSS Sliding doors technique

A very good description of the respective CSS technique:

• Douglas Bowman's CSS sliding doors technique

Learn to dance

This link appears to be interesting, maybe I found the solution to all my problems.

My latest discovery

Gorky Park - Bang
Gorky Park is a Russian band, but they had their success in the United States; this is their best (and only good) piece.

A bit of quality Black Metal about Suicide, Death, Misanthropy, Insanity

Silencer- Taklamakan. Kind hearted, gentle soul Marton recommended this track to me

Job for people with knowledge of Adobe Flex

Fortech is looking for people with good knowledge of Adobe Flex.

Requirements:

• OOP terms and paradigms know-how
• Strong Java development knowledge and experience
• Adobe Flex is a must
• experience on Adobe Flash CS3
• Advanced English skills

You have a plus if you have:

• Spring, Hibernate know-how

More details:

• Fortech jobs [Online application]
• Fortech website

New programming stereotypes

"It is funny because it is true" or is it "funny but true"?

• New programming stereotypes

My favorite comic strips

This is a list of my favorite comic strips. These strips keep me alive, they keep me sane and going.

Behold:

• http://blaugh.com/ - the (un)official comic of the Blogosphere
• http://www.bugbash.net/
• http://choppingblock.org/ - because serial killers are people too
• http://www.pidjin.net/ - Two evil pigeons. One world to destroy.
• http://www.jesusandmo.net/
• http://blastwavecomic.com/index.php - Gone with the blastwave
• http://www.penny-arcade.com/ - Penny arcade
• http://www.phdcomics.com/ - Piled higher and deeper
• http://www.xkcd.com/ - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

(The links are in approx. alphabetical order)

How addicted to blogging am I?

68%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
(Clicking on the image will take you to the test's page)

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Tip of the day: Flip

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• Flip