I first saw Angry Birds on a friend’s Facebook status. My coworker said it was the most popular download for the iPhone. Then I saw it in Palm’s App Catalog and got curious… I haven’t slept since! hehehe (j/k)
It’s really addicting though - consider yourself warned!
Everyone is out to amuse me today! Because the DNS error message of Facebook being down made me choose to use another browser - I got this error message when I clicked through to my sister’s blog.
OPB BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession.
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting
This made me laugh out loud! One of my coworkers actually came to my office to tell me Facebook was down - and ask me what are we going to do? Haha!
Source: Ride Android
I wanted to learn how to develop apps for Android and had been excited to find out that I can review my Java at the same time. But then Irontec had a bright idea to bring PHP to Android - there goes my Java review!
Be the fruit loop in a box of cheerios. Android on a 7-inch Tab. You don’t even have to be on AT&T to get one. The only concern is the price. Hopefully Samsung pleasantly surprises us!
Geeksugar
Where the geek is sweet :)
Version Control in Hg
Don’t you just love it when they get their elements right? - says the non-practicing chemical engineer…
You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.
The Social Network movie. In theaters October 1.
My husband, who doesn’t even have his own Facebook account, is very eager to see this movie… which is good because I won’t need to convince him to watch it with me!
Experience + Resourcefulness = Error-Less Code
Today a coworker asked me about a Warning that kept appearing in her website. It said the header had already been sent so it can’t do what she was asking the code to do. I had already seen this error before so I told her to remove and lines or spaces after the closing tag of any included file.
She looked at me like I had grown another head. But she did what I told her to do and one of the warnings went away. She was awed! My co-programmer (who I take it was trying to help her also) asked me how I knew to do that and I told him I had encountered the error before and looked up how to fix it.
Then he asked me how one figures out how to debug something like that as though my fix had no logical explanation.
I told him that the code was interpreting the space or line break character as a header and that’s why we had to remove it. I also advised them to put the text of the error in a Google search and check the discussion boards that come up to find out how to debug it.
That is why PHP is a dream to work with - it’s open source, there are communities out there sharing knowledge about bugs, errors they’ve encountered and general tips on getting applications to work.
The solution gave my coworker the courage to fix the other problem she encountered on her own. It’s very liberating to be able to troubleshoot problems on your website by yourself so I’m glad I was able to help.
So remember, my friends - when you’re stumped try searching for the solution to your problems online especially if you’re working with open source code.
Printing CSS Designs
Many developers are usually tasked with removing all the ink-heavy images and graphics of a website so that they can print their page looking as close to a Word document as possible. My challenge was different. My clients wanted to print the website as it is seen on screen.
Now because it was a CSS-related problem, you would assume that the designer would be tasked to fix it. Wrong!
I was informed that they had been trying to fix this printing problem since the website was redesigned in very cool CSS and if I was able to solve this I would be a star! Not one to back out from a challenge - I googled the terms “printing CSS websites” and got this article from A List Apart.
I read the first few sentences, looked at the website’s CSS code and wondered if adding “, print” to the media attribute of the CSS link would help. Yup, all it took was “, print” to get me to rock star status today. What a way to end the work day!
