http://www.stephentudor.com Bits and tangents on geek life Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my favorite web publications, A List Apart, has pushed an article about a new CSS layout technique that the author, Eric Sol, calls Faux Absolute Positioning. Up until now, I'd always relied primarily on floating divs. Other folks preferred using (real) absolute positioning, but that required the use ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/06/20/faux-absolute-positioning/ My response to Michael Arrington's ignorant story blaming the recently departed Blaine Cook for Twitter's problems. Criticizing Twitter and crucifying a departing Twitter engineer are two entirely different things. Taking one of his presentation slides out of context, conjecture, supposition, lack of any credible witnesses or evidence... This isn't ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-techcrunch/ A List Apart, the famous online magazine "for people who make websites," just published a pair of articles that help people who want to start out with Ruby on Rails: Getting Started with Ruby on Rails and Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails. No more than a day ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/04/23/new-rails-django-guides/ Somehow, deep down, I always knew I was a Cylon. http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/04/14/no-surprise-here/ These are instructions for how to install nginx (pronounced as "Engine X", a high-performance open source web server) and PHP with FastCGI on a Mac for development purposes. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to do this on my own, so hopefully it will save someone ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/04/02/installing-nginx-and-php-with-fastcgi-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ I don't have much to say about today's frivolities, but I should that I avoided being rickrolled via Twitter an epic number of times. Adactio has the full scoop on the April Fool's pranks that went down on the Web in 2008. My personal favorite of the day was John Resig's ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/04/01/april-fooz/ The other day, I received this clandestine note. This is a reminder that there will be a meeting called tonight for the BSG-SS (Battlestar Galactica Secret Society) at ADDRESS DELETED. It is imperative that all attend, as there is limited time in which to watch Season 3 before the ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/03/28/bsg-secret-society/ Until today, I'd never written a blog post before that wasn't in the online editor window of the admin interface. That's a bad idea for a couple of big reasons: you can't save local copies of drafts without copying and pasting into a file; the server could lose its connection, ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/03/22/blogging-with-textmate/ After a pretty long hiatus from blogging, I'm finally starting anew. This time, I'm happy to announce that I'll be writing as myself, rather than hiding behind hideously '90s social constructs like screen-names and what-all. This time, WYSIWYG. I won't pretend to believe that very many people even knew about me, ... http://www.stephentudor.com/2008/03/21/thought-leaders/