http://bonta-kun.net/wp Pretending to be knowledgeable since 2004 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:41:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wordpress stands a strong possibility of blowing away your themes if you use the automatic updating mechanism, normal theme is coming back soon, I apologize for the interruption of normal service. http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2009/07/22/not-to-other-wordpress-users/ I was thinking the other day about why I don't like the ribbon. And the conclusion that I ultimately came to was that it broke consistency with the bulk of the apps of the platform, in fact it's so different I wouldn't claim that it is even close consistent with ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2009/03/17/consistency/ As a joke and a challenge I recently built a URL shortening service that I've named Gemer It. It's a neat little service, it's quiet simple and I'm not going to make any claims of greatness about it. As with many of my projects the source code is fully available, I'm ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2009/01/31/latest-project-gemer-it/ IE8 is going to implement a new version targeting system that is going to coincide with their new rendering engine which is supposed to be significantly better at web standards. The big catch is that in order to enable this you have to insert a meta tag in to the ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2008/01/29/version-targeting-ie8/ I've sent the past few days at Tulsa Tech Fest, a developer's conference primarily targeted at enterprise and Microsoft developers. My focus at the show was to learn about .NET 3.5 and it's new features and frameworks (primarily WPF ,LINQ ). I feel the need to warn that I'm some ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/10/22/tulsa-tech-fest-07/ A late game is only late until it comes out, but a bad game is always bad. -Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂) http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/08/08/quote-to-think-about/ I have a few spare Pownce invites (9 to be specific), head over to the contact page to get one. http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/07/10/pownce-invites/ Now that I've used my iPhone for almost a week now, I'm ready to offer up some thoughts. First off it's the best smart phone I've ever used. Upsides (there are tons, this is a brief list) The iPhone is an excellent PDA, phone, and iPod. In fact it's better ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/07/09/iphone-thoughts/ function typeOf(obj) {   if ( typeof(obj) == 'object' )     if (obj.length)       return 'array';     else       return 'object';     } else   return typeof(obj); } Just in case someone else was needing the ability to discern the difference between objects, arrays, and other data types in Javascript. http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/07/05/javascript-typeof-with-array-support/ The server has been moved to it's static IP address (some of you may have had trouble and seen this weird apache cpanel screen. I'm happy to say that unless you're experiencing dns update issues. The only changes that we should be seeing is we're going to be ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/06/15/server-changes-almost-complete/ The server will be upgraded over the next few days, this will hopefully not affect service, but if it does this is why. http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/06/14/server-upgrades/ Safari for Windows = iPhone SDK for Windows. Oh look the only way to get 3rd party apps on the iPhone is to run then as widgets in Safari, oh wait on a totally on related note look Safari just got ported over to Windows. This would be an unlikely ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/06/11/not-that-anybody-asked/ There is a new gallery of interest, it's how a Friday's supposed to be spent. Nerf Quest http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/04/13/new-gallery/ I was thinking about Microsoft's initiative to push Live on the PC. This at first seemed nice, consolidation and playing with your friends, voice in every game, and etc I would be willing to pay for this service (I know most people piss and moan about the idea of ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/04/12/is-live-for-windows-an-attempt-to-lockout-other-platforms/ There are going to be some changes around here, everything is going to be the using the same color scheme. This is part of the operation to form a cohesive look and style. The color scheme is going to match the page that is currently siting on the ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/03/05/some-changes/ This is merely a test, I wrote a script to find the most recent BBC Newspod and redirect to it. I've combined that with the the mp3 player I've been using for some clips and we "should" have a player that grabs the newest BBC Newspod each day, it's ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/02/27/bbc-newspod-22707/ I have a twitter account, if you're into that kind of thing, I find it kind of interesting to play with, although I currently have no people I actually know using it. I'm using all kinds of ways to change my status including IM, twitterrific, and the twidget widget, ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/02/15/twitter/ The front page for PJIRC IRC chat has been massively overhauled, with more of an emphasis on using CSS to style things and manipulating CSS for hiding and displaying elements. The code is available as always to anyone who would like to request it, merely make a comment on ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/02/09/irc-chat-has-been-upgraded/ Southern Missouri is suffering an insane ice storm that has 90% of my town out of power (and subsequently heat), this being said little progress will be made on anything by me (other than some DS and GBA time), this means progress in finding a job is going to slower ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/01/14/weather-of-death/ Like a lot of people I'm more than a little disappointed with this year's Macworld (at least so far it's still got a bit to go), a new cell phone (awesome as it is) and the TV thing (which I need a nicer TV to be able to even use). ... http://bonta-kun.net/wp/2007/01/10/macworld-07/