What I Learned Today…

Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, What I Learned Today… covers blogs, rss, wikis and more as they relate to libraries.

Plugin for Programmers

April 12th, 2006

First, let me say – I love Lifehacker – I just wish it wasn’t so hard to keep up with – I’m out of commission for 2 days and I have 95 new things to read about :)

Now what I’m really writing about.

View Rendered Source Chart is a Firefox plugin that lets your view the souce code of a page with the nesting in pretty colored boxes. Now if I could have a plugin for HTML-Kit that could do that same thing I’d be in heaven!

Design for Size

March 17th, 2006

For those of you web designers with Windows (sorry MAC users) this is a new tool that I just learned about that will make your life easier. As you know you have to design for the popular browser resolutions – but if you’re like me you have your resolution set as high as it will go – so this requires a plugin or a script like this one from interactivetools.com, which is what I’ve been using for the last year or so. But today Lifehacker pointed me to something so much better! It’s called Sizer and it’s a windows file that makes it so that you can resize any window to one of three sizes with the click of the mouse.

Give it a whirl, I bet you’ll love it!

What I’d Like to Learn

January 23rd, 2006

I know the title is What I Learned Today… but there is something I’d like to learn. How do you get Firefox to notice that there is an RSS feed available on a page? I see the icon show in my address bar for some sites – but not for the library’s site – even though we have a feed.

Thanks for the pointers!

New Firefox

December 16th, 2005

Okay, so I’ve read all over about Firefox 1.5 and I went to download it (a while ago) only to find out it wasn’t an official release … so I decided to wait. Today I went back to the Firefox site and what do I see? Version 1.5 available for download!!

How come my browser didn’t give me the “New Updates” message?

Oh well, who cares – I’m off to download the new Firefox (and then I’m going to read this article in Wired) – you should too!