Posted by Chris Martin on Mar 5, 2009
Lindsey was so kind as to show this to me:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/03/04/firefox.overtakes.ie6/
That’s right, Firefox has finally overtaken IE6. Suddenly, the sky seems brighter, the grass a bit greener, and all seems right with the world.
Looking at the graph provided in the article, the one thing that really puzzles me is the slight increase in IE6 usage [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Feb 20, 2009
I’ve been spending a lot of time the past few weeks trying to broaden my horizons. From reading more, to taking a further interest in the arts, to making an effort to travel more often, all in all it’s been a pretty rewarding experience. If you are interested in such things, it would [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Feb 10, 2009
That’s right, cascading style sheets based sites for the win! A few months ago we here at Solid Cactus cooked up the following list of why CSS based sites are awesome.
1. The use of CSS has been preferred by many developers who follow the W3 standards. HTML should be for content ONLY, styling [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Jan 14, 2009
Here in Store Programming we take great pride in a job well done. Ever since we reorganized into our new team structure in the Fall of last year our productivity just keeps gaining momentum. Our code just keeps getting better and better, yet we are also getting it done faster than ever. [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Jan 2, 2009
So, I was reading an interesting article on generating columns using absolute positioning here:
http://24ways.org/2008/absolute-columns
and I noticed something very odd. The site doesn’t appear to have been checked extensively in Firefox. If I had to guess I would say it was programmed for Internet Explorer 7, but they never bothered to carry over the [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Dec 23, 2008
So, after spending the better part of my day pulling my hair out over an Internet Explorer 6 redraw bug, I’ve decided that all we in the programming department really want for Christmas is this:
* html body {
display: firefox;
}
Hey, we already have our two front teeth> Remember, Santa has coal for the stockings of all [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Dec 17, 2008
Greg was so kind to pass this link on to us:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm
It seems there was a security flaw in Internet Explorer. To their credit, the fix is now in, and only two days after this news story was posted. (Don’t you love how hard it is to tell if someone is being ironic over [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Dec 11, 2008
So, I made a post a few weeks ago congratulating Ryan on his one year anniversary at Cactus, and then one the next week congratulating both Sean and Keith for the same. Imagine my surprise when I looked back at the blog and realized neither post made it up! The posts must have been sucked [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Nov 19, 2008
Today is Lindsey’s one year anniversary of working at Solid Cactus! And what a great year it’s been. Lindsey went from being a quiet, keep to herself kind of programmer, to one of the most dominating forces in the programming department. She can churn out packages like nobody’s business, and her work is always [...]
Posted by Chris Martin on Nov 11, 2008
I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate Keith and Lindsey on winning our “beat the Li machine” contest. Between the two of them they did a whopping 31 packages in the month of October! Well done!
In other news of amazing feats, Stas and Kostya have been busy helping us keep up with the [...]