On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. An understandable move in light of the proliferation of cheap digital compact cameras, but as disastrous move for many Polaroid enthusiasts, on anyone who simply wants to instantly create unique and interesting images.
There looks to be roughly enough stock [...]

The JavaScript text replacement on this site is a jQuery Plugin i’ve written as an adaptation of the techniques detailed in Dynamic Text Replacement by Stewart Rosenberger in A List Apart Issue 183. The current source of the plugin can be found here. I’m calling it jitr, and you can’t stop me.
Currently it’s a work [...]

WordPress by default sends pings to your own site every time you link to other posts on your own blog. This appears as a pingback on the post you have linked to, in the comments section. Some people might see this as a feature, allowing you to leave a trail of related posts. I find [...]

As previously mentioned in this post Thickbox 3.1 is currently broken in many revisions of Internet Explorer 7. Specifically, those revisions who return the substring “MSIE 6.0″ in the user-agent string.
Update: July 2008
This patch fixes a problem caused when certain installations of IE7 are incorrectly identified as IE6 causing the thickbox window to be positioned [...]

I’ve noticed problems in Safari with the hide/show methods of jQuery on and off for quite a while now. Basically they don’t work. Correct me if i’m wrong. This behaviour also extends to the fadeIn/Out methods.
The problem can be circumvented to applying css rules directly to the element(s) in question.
// This will fail in Safari
$(element).hide()
// [...]

Do I need to write something to go with this?

Credit goes to my homeslice Rick Nunn this afternoon for discovering a fairly major bug in the new JavaScript text replacement I’ve recently developed and implemented on this site.
Of course, had I bothered to test it at all using Safari I might have noticed it myself. But that’s not the point. So, thanks Rickzor.
So, the [...]

stuartalansigns.com
Stuartalansigns.com was developed in pure XHTML/CSS on a simple PHP backend. It also utilses some basic SEO techniques.
Unobtrusive JavaScript ‘lightbox’ style image galleries were employed to meet the clients need to add large numbers of photos in an elegant and well thought out manner.

Recently i’ve noticed that jQuery.browser.version seems to be returning 6 for most copies of IE7. This seems to be due to the fact that the user-agent string now contains the substring “MSIE 6.0″. So, thanks for that Microsoft.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; [...]

No one could have missed the fact that the BBC has launched a new service called iPlayer recently. They stuff it down our throats after every pointless episode of EastEnders.
Most people (normal people) would be surprised however to learn of the ongoing controversy which surrounds the beeb’s most recent squandering of our money.