2009
October
- I've been busy
I always find it hard to find things to write about when I have a blog. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s just I don’t like writing. I’ve been busy this past week, creating a new community for the Dingoo A320 portable game device. The community is called “Dingoonity” and is available at http://dingoonity.org I’ve been constantly working on improving Dingoonity since it launched on Friday at 7pm, and so I’ve had little time to work on much else. Dingoonity features a Simple Machines Forum powered BBS, and since today a SMF powered news page which I wrote using SMF’s SSI.php functions. Working on this project has been a great experience so far. The Dingoo community is very much alive and crunching out new homebrew releases for both the Dingoo official firmware, and the “Dingux” linux port for the Dingoo. I will probably post some more Dingoonity-related posts later, aswell as updating my portfolio with the Dingoonity designs when I finish the tweaks.
September
- Installing OS X Snow Leopard on the Dell Inspiron 1525
I’ve had a Dell Inspiron 1525 for about 18 months now. It’s not my main computer, so I’m often messing with it. Some time last year I made the jump to running OS X Leopard on the Dell, with some work and guides put in by the folks over at the InsanelyMac forums and a guide by Espresso Report/Daily Blogged. I had Leopard running on my Dell perfectly, and all of the hardware that I cared to work worked. Earlier this month I decided that I wanted to subject my Dell to being a test bench for Windows 7, so I decided to run that on the Dell for a while before running it on my main computer. Now that I have no need for Windows 7 on my Dell I’ve decided to return to OS X, but this time with the newly released Snow Leopard.
- Creating the moanlog search form with CSS
Styling form elements with CSS is never a fun task. Cross browser differences in how form elements are rendered, coupled with changes in font size and browser capabilities, makes predicting how a form will look, after you’ve applied a style to it, a hard job. When working on the design for moanlog (and the Wordpress theme for moanblog) the search bar was one of the areas that took the most deliberation. Unable to recover the image :( The search form as it looks in its finished style maintains the unified style of the soft salmon colours in the moanlog design.