I have never liked Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, the company I work for develop web applications with IE being the target browser. So when IE screws up, I can’t do my job properly.
And guess what! IE screwed up. If I opened IE and entered a URL, it would either completely freeze, or close its own window, depending on how strong the wind was blowing. After significant faffing however, I found the solution. For the record, I’m running Windows 7 Professional x64.
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Oct 162011
No, I didn’t die. I’m alive and very well, which is more than I can say for the state of this site the past several months. Something happened and it stopped working and I never got round to fixing it. Turned out to be a plugin had gone fusty and broke my WordPress site.
So why did it take this long to fix? Well I’ve been a busy man and haven’t had a holiday in a long time. But here I am now, sat in a room in Abuja‘s finest hotel. For work, of course. No way I could afford to pay to stay here (£20 for a continental breakfast where I only take a couple of croissants and a cup o’ tea? Eh, yr alright).
With all this free time to myself and no need to clean my flat/iron my clothes/hang out with friends, I thought I should re-take up my hobby of makin’ websites. Since I’ve been doing a lot of SharePoint work lately (and still tearing hair out on account of its unpredictable nature), I reckon there’ll be a couple of howto posts soon, including one on fully implementing custom action pages into the Site Settings screen. Lord knows I had enough trouble correlating different sources of information to get it done. That, and I intend to spend s’more time in the evenings working on my own site, which is looking rather dapper right now.
I mean, all this in between working on my tan and hitting the pool bar. Y’know. A guy’s gotta take it easy, too.
May 132010
Another redesign! I know. This one takes a different approach, it’s supposed to look like a futuristic computer panel. Click here to have a gander. This design also includes my first foray into Javascript – although I have used it in the past, I’ve never really developed with it. This is me creating my own code now, learning it all for myself. So far so good, I’d say. Notice the ‘more’ and ‘less’ buttons in the most recent update (all the text is shown if the user does not have Javascript on), and the mouse-following popup panel when you hover over the button on the right of the frame (unfortunately, no non-Javascript workaround here, but it’s just aesthetic).
All in all, I’m really pleased with the style. it looks best on a browser that supports CSS3 (Firefox or Chrome for example), but should still look dapper on other browsers. You just won’t get rounded corners and glows 
But yeah, I’m not gonna say how “this is the style”, because… well, I’ve said that about them all. Maybe I’ll just get building the website itself now…
Incidentally, that page is part of a test area I’ve set up for mucking about with styles and Javascript. Frames are bad, I know. It’s a quick and dirty showcase setup, nothing fancy. Just a nice place to collect all my efforts!
Sep 102009
I’ve only gone and done it. I’ve sold out and settled for pre-made “blogging” software. Well that’s not fair. I’ll still be working on Rakhama in the background, it’s just that at least now I can post about things while I’m at it. Consider this an accompaniment to Rakhama.
Anyway, this isn’t a blog. I refuse to acknowledge it as a blog. Call it a waste of time and server space if you like, just don’t call it a blog.
You’ll see from the categories down the side that I plan to cover mostly IT stuff – SharePoint, PHP, Linux and so on. One of the reasons I felt compelled to put this blog thing together was because of the lack of good information generally found on the internet – half-completed tutorials, inaccurate code samples and so on. I’m going to aim to make this as comprehensive, accurate and useful as I can. From here, I will be sharing my experiences in developing with SharePoint, and trialling Linux, and so on.
I hope to have this updating reasonably regularly. You might want to subscribe to a feed (and if you don’t do feeds, check out Netvibes for an awesome way to keep track of everything). Whatever you do, I hope you find this site useful!
