Web
Background color for inline text
In searching for a solution to a CSS problem I had I stumbled over another interesting problem, similar to mine. Most people seemed to agree that it
was impossible to do in pure CSS. The effect those people were after is commonly used in magazines where text with a background color is put over an image. A simple effect [...]
The MongoDB vs MySQL debate…
Same stupid debate as so often before. Just the topics are different from time to time. Found via the Swedish Utvbloggen, RWW, highscalability och myNoSQL.
Free weather icons
The Norwegian weather service Yr.no is very popular in the Nordic region as they release weather data for free. We (as in the Swedish web development company Dotvoid AB) have used their service to create mashups and services as many others have before us.
Recently Malin Holm converted all our old bitmapped weather icons to SVG [...]
Ye olde English is dead
There are probably as many solutions to creating SEO friendly urls as there are actual implementations. After real work yesterday I started looking at the rather simple method based on the PHP built in strtr() we use. It’s very simple and apart from some uppercase, lowercase and utf8 juggling the (very shortened) basis is something [...]
Company, work and conferences
As mentioned earlier I moved with my family from Sweden to Spain for awhile. To complicate things further me and my girlfriend Malin created a new company called Dotvoid AB focusing on web sites and applications based on PHP. (So expect things to change around here in 2009 – though no timeplan or schedule exists). [...]
Zend Feed for a Swedish web development blog aggregator
Lately I have begun to get more and more annoyed with my feed reader. I use a simple feed reader which lack most features except for subscribing to and reading feeds. The one thing that annoys me the most is that it can’t aggregate several feeds into one feed. Yesterday I finally decided to scratch [...]
Back from vacation
I have had a great and relaxing vacation and came back to work yesterday. Still it is somewhat weird that after four weeks of vacation I only had time to take my sailing boat out for the first time yesterday evening. It was wonderful – slowly sailing around the nearby islands in the inner archipelago [...]
The web
I’ve been busy writing agents for retreiving and parsing data in many different formats from many different sources the last couple of weeks. These agents fetch data for the Swedish city portal (actually almost 50 portals) that we are working on. The data sources are a big mess of free text, HTML, weird XML formats [...]
New design and off for vacation
I have finally pulled myself together and updated all the Smarty templates for dotvoid.com with a new design. It is not by far finished and there are lots of empty areas to fill, and adjustments that needs to be done as well as a cleanup of faulty comment counts. But I have had these templates [...]
I hate comment spam
The winter is finally over. Though it was really nice with a long hard winter, with lots of snow even here in the south of Sweden, eventually one start to long for some sun. The snow melted away a couple of weeks ago but it’s not until now it’s really starting to feel like spring. [...]
