http://www.rowlando.com/blog (I'm not a Brazilian football player) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:14:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past few weeks I have come across a number of tools, libraries, etc... that I hope to check out soon. SpriteMe Google Closure Tools PackTag FireQuery I've noticed Firefox has gotten slower with each new release. I am looking for a replacement development browser and have read today that WebKit's WebInspector has recently ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/11/10/stuff-i-want-to-check-out-soon/ I had some problems checking out from Subversion. I got the error message: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/xxx svn: PROPFIND of '/xxx: could not connect to server (http://xxx.xxxxx.com) After a bit of searching, Vernon suggested it could be proxy server settings. I checked them by opening up a terminal and typing: vim ~/.subversion/servers Scrolling ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/10/21/svn-propfind-request-failed-on/ When I worked at The Guardian, before committing code to Subversion, unit tests were run against the Java codebase. This is pretty standard. Sometimes, things slipped through and were caught at the Continuous Integration stage where an automated build would perform deeper tests and verify the code integrations of each ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/05/29/continuously-test-your-front-end-code-automatically/ Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML 5 specification, was interviewed by Bruce Lawson earlier this month. Ian listed a few things we can look forward to in HTML 5: Long term, content authors will find a variety of new features in HTML 5. ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/05/22/html-5-whats-in-it-for-us/ Today I thought I'd see how the website I'm currently front-end developing looks my phone's browser, the G1. It was simple to view since the G1 has wi-fi so I typed in my laptop's IP address followed by the path to the website. Renders great! Well it would, because the ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/03/12/g1-browser-supports-windowprint-function-is-silly/ A great presentation by Nicole Sullivan. I've watched this twice now! Nicole Sullivan: "Design Fast Websites" @ Yahoo! Video http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/02/21/nicole-sullivan-design-fast-websites/ The Glasnost Tool performs a series of tests to work out whether your ISP traffic shapes BitTorrent traffic. It seems that Virgin Media ADSL doesn't (see the results), which comes as a surprise but is a good thing. http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/02/01/virgin-media-isp-does-not-traffic-shape-bittorrent/ I am successfully using my G1's 3G connection via my laptop. I followed the instructions on Graham Stewart's website. I didn't have instant success so googled for more info. I needed to turn go into Firefox's config settings by putting about:config into the address bar. Ignoring the warning, I changed ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/02/01/using-g1-phones-3g-connection-on-laptop/ I'm currently working for one of the UK's big banks. Recently, the bank in question decided to unify its visual identity (VI) for any sites being built now and in the future. This is a wise step but has created difficulties for the 2 websites that are currently in build. Being ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/01/29/using-subversion-to-share-global-css-amongst-different-websites/ I'm in the process of setting up a development environment on my mac. I've set up IE8 testing by converting Microsoft's VPC images to a VMware compatible image. So the next thing I need to do is view my local webserver from VMware. Typing http://localhost doesn't work because the virtual ... http://www.rowlando.com/blog/2009/01/11/reaching-localhost-from-vmware-virtual-machines-on-a-mac/