Category Archives: News

CSS preprocessing

I always thought that CSS lacks in expressiveness which is far below the one of XPath. For example you can’t select elements based on their child elements. How nice would it be if you could format anker tags if and … Continue reading

Color Wizard

Tired of bright red, green or blue? Then try out the Color Wizard on colorsontheweb.com. Given one color the tool gives you 3 variations (hue, saturation and tint&shade) as much as 6 corresponding colors (monochromatic, analogous, triadic, tetradic, complimentary and … Continue reading

bkahlert.com 2.0

HTML5 Boilerplate Starkers WordPress Theme HTML 5 Boilerplate WordPress Theme WordPress Child Theme with minimal PHP code (main script/css includes) screenshots of bkahlert.com 1.0

Saros Nebula – SWT Standard Widgets

Saros Usability Improvement

TODO

Osama Bin Laden killed live on a news broadcast! watch the video: …

Nice try. A worm has started to spread over Facebook promising the user a video where the killed Osama Bin Laden can be seen. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Osama-Bin-Laden-Killed-Live-on-Video/201198676585608?sk=app_190322544333196&71029 On the corresponding Facebook profile you are asked to copy a javascript … Continue reading

Saros Session with Kent Beck

Yesterday Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt, Kent Beck and me had a Saros session. Have a look on what Kent Beck has to say about Saros.

Why I don’t consider bit.ly & co a good idea

Ever heard of bit.ly or TinyURL.com? In short those services offer the shortening of (long) URLs so the link becomes easier to read and to publish, e.g. on Twitter. I do not deny that advantage whereas I criticize that none of … Continue reading