My own name in Twitter: @philbert
Whenever I subscribe to something big, like Linked In or another big website, I always try to get “philbert” as username. Usually I fail. It is apparently not as unique a name as it looks.
Worldwide, there are plenty of Philberts: superheroes, frogs, French villages, heck, there is even a Philbert coat of arms!
So when I signed up for Twitter I had little hope, but I checked anyway. Hey wait! Indeed it was taken, but by someone with 0 tweets, following nobody, and being followed only by 1 inactive.
So I figured: I should give this a shot. So I just asked the Twitter people if I could have it, since that guy wasn’t using it, and I am starting a business. And what do you know! The Twitter gods were merciful (and I might add, polite and friendly about it) and gave me my own first name as my twitter handle:
Birthday present
My sweet sister gave me this book for my birthday. I can’t wait to dig in!
Verlanglijstje
Ik ben bijna jarig, dus als service aan alle mensen die mij cadeaux willen geven, hieronder de zaken waar ik ook echt blij mee zou zijn:
Buurman en Buurman DVD box- Hertenkamp DVD box
- Boek van Philip K Dick:A Scanner Darkly, andere boeken mogen ook, alleen ‘Ubik’ heb ik al.
- Boek van Stephen Notley: Bob the Angry Flower, Pamplemousse
Stapelbare karaf- Home Academy college, wat dan ook uit categorieën: religie en filosofie, geschiedenis, of politiek en maatschappij
Veel plezier met inpakken.
p.s., overleg gerust in de reacties wat je gaat kopen, ik beloof niet te kijken tot mijn verjaardag.
Looking for a PC
I am currently looking to purchase a PC for my girl.
She is not a gamer, but she is a web designer so the intention is to buy a PC that has good graphical capabilities.
I definitely am not ready for a Vista adventure, but I can get Windows XP so I can always install that. Therefore it would be best if it were a PC without any OS. (Windows is a requirement since she has purchased the Adobe Creative Suite for a lot of cash) I don’t have the energy to do extensive research on every part of the PC (housing, processor, video card etc) to assemble my own PC, so I’m looking at predefined computers from a number of vendors.
So far I am looking at this one from Graficall ,the ‘Actie PC’s from Informatique ,
Can you help me pick? What do you think about the quality of the parts? What’s missing?
Standards compliant web development
Many of my colleague web developers still see cascading style sheets as a means to influence text colours and to create fancy links that only have underlining when you scroll over them with a mouse.
This is a big waste. Proper use of standards compliant web development leads to achieving your layout with less code, more readable code and much more flexibility when you want to change your layout.
Read more on why you want to use web standards.
The essence of using web standards, and the big mind switch for people used to legacy methods of creating web pages, is that html is not used to create layouts!
Instead, html is used to provide a metadescription of the content you are handing to your users. This explains the grown use of forgotten tags like ul, dfn and acronym.
Ideally, you would simply write your content, properly describing what the function of each piece of text is, and slide over your layout later. In practice, you will have to provide hooks in your html to attach your style code to.
More about that in the next paragraph.
Now about css
In css you create style rules to define for instance the font size, location, colour etc. of your document’s content elements.
These style rules can be attached to four different types of ‘hooks’:
- html tags, like “a”, “body” or “p”
- self defined classes, that are marked with a “.”, like “.blogarticle” or “.odd” and “.even” rows of atable.
- id\’s, yes, you can add css code to the id of a single element, it is marked with a “#”.
- pseudo classes, the most well-known of these is “a:hover”, used to alter the style of a link when the mousepointer hovers over it.
Philbert.nl
Philbert.nl is in juli 2003 in mijn bezit gekomen.
Omdat ik voorshands eigenlijk geen dringende boodschap voor de mensheid had, besloot ik de site maar te gebruiken om wat te experimenteren met gehypete concepten uit de web development wereld. Deze zijn: xhtml, dhtml, xml, en css.