Archive for January, 2008

Three pillars of (web)design 11 comments »

…at least from my point of view.
Typography (or whatever you want to call it; the way letters are handled)
If it’s unreadable, your visitors will not be able to read anything, the more readable your website is, the more they will be able to read.
One of the most common cause of problems is “liquid layout”. Say […]

Posted on 2008-27-01 in art, typography
Walking as a means of transport Be the first to comment! »

I have always hated public transport.
I prefer walking or going by bike. Alas, bike is not always feasible – sometimes the weather is not good, or there’s nowhere to (safely) park the bike, or I am somewhere where I don’t even have a bike. On the other hand, walking is always available.
Walking enables you to […]

Posted on 2008-22-01 in random thoughts, sport
Object-oriented or procedural? Be the first to comment! »

As I mentioned in the previous post, I needed a CAPTCHA algorithm. As I couldn’t find anything simple and usable that would do what I want (ie follow the basic principles of captcha creation (readibility for humans, and hopefully unreadibility for machines)), I decided to write my own. The purpose of this was just to […]

Posted on 2008-20-01 in programming
Few WordPress-related improvements Be the first to comment! »

In wordpress database, column comment_status is of type enum(’open’, ‘closed’, ‘registered_only’). But for some reason, ‘registered_only’ is never used anywhere…
I use disable comments plugin, which is excellent because it is very simple. Here is the relevant part:

$wpdb->query(‘UPDATE wp_posts
SET comment_status = "closed", ping_status = "closed"
WHERE DATEDIFF(NOW(), post_date) > ‘ . $days);

And if you want it to […]

Posted on 2008-19-01 in internet, programming
New design again 11 comments »

I didn’t plan it. I just woke up today and knew I’d have a new blog in the evening.
As for colours, a great deal of thinking went into that. Yesterday I read a lot about readability on the web. I think it’s something very important that many people completely miss. First, Verdana and Georgia, that’s […]

Posted on 2008-12-01 in internet, typography
Wochenende in Wien 4 comments »

Fear not – this post is not gonna be in German.
I left work early on Friday and headed for the Student Agency bus. The movie Corpse Bride was pretty good and before I knew it, I was in Vienna, just few hundred meters from the famous Prater. Buying a “Stadtplan” was an ordeal, but I […]

Posted on 2008-10-01 in go
Happy (new year) 3 comments »

A year ago I predicted that 2007 would be better than 2006, and indeed – it was.
And I have plenty of reasons to believe that 2008 is gonna be even better.
Today I went skiing, and it was grrreat. The slope was not steep at all, but carving skiing makes it plenty of fun even […]

Posted on 2008-01-01 in personal