http://www.freshivore.net Portfolio and Blog of Vincent Franco Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.freshivore.net/portfolio/wayfarer-center/ This from Appleinsider "Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that." Think of the hours of development time that would be saved! Can you hear ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/microsoft-considers-webkit-for-internet-explorer/   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="CB175 Frame stripped down"][/caption] On the way home from work, I spotted a cool little Honda on the side of the road for 200 bucks. After thinking it over... and talking with the man selling it I found out that it had been in storage for nearly ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/my-side-project/ This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. http://www.freshivore.net/uncategorized/flickr/ Dear Senator McCain, I am a writing this letter as a cry for help. I beg of you to stop your campaign from continuing to barrel down this negative trail with the serious and frankly dangerous accusations towards Senator Obama. I understand that you are trying to win this race, but ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/my-letter-to-senator-mccain/ Well after putting some serious thought into the layout of this site... I have decided to give it a total overhaul! Seeing as how I never fully finished this design I feel that this is a very needed step. So if anyone wants this wordpress theme feel free ask and ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/serious-redesign-coming-soon/ 6 Places that Flash Does Not Belong: "It's recently occurred to me that I've been doing Flash sites now for 10 years and have seen it come a long way since Flash 4, where I first cut my teeth on Actionscript, tweening, and pixel fonts. Over the years, I've seen ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/6-places-that-flash-does-not-belong/ After spending sometime looking through this unfinished site, I have decided to do a total typographic refresh. The baseline is broken and needs to be fixed. Soon I will re-do all the math my neglected settings and try to finish up what I started. It's been very difficult lately with a full time ... http://www.freshivore.net/css/stylesheet-refresh/ If you tired of having nasty little conditional comments like this "<!--[if lte IE 6]>...<![endif]-->" in your clean markup. Here is a quick and simple PHP function for checking what version of explorer your visitor has. [code='php'] function isIE($version) {    if ( preg_match('/MSIE (6|7)\.0/', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $ver) ) {      if ($ver[1] == ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/check-for-internet-explorer-unobtrusively/ Beanstalk+Versions has been my tools of choice for version control. Which has worked out great so far, I have no complaints about Beanstalk. The one area that versioning always got a little out of control was deployment. In comes springloops! Nice versioned deployment of development, staging, and production servers. Now I can ... http://www.freshivore.net/blog/version-control-with-springloops/