monkeys on typewriters

Whenever I do web development, I always make sure that the sites that I build will look good on an 800×600 screen. I know that almost no one has that size screen anymore, but I still think its a good thing to check.

But how do I check this, you ask? Good question. Well, I use a bookmarklet that makes a new window with the current contents at 800×600.

Just a nice little piece of code to put into the bookmark bar for use when making web sites.

Very excellent:

The Programmer Hierarchy (PDF link)

Programmers always have to feel superior to other programmers. Via Daring Fireball

Some quick stats about tacowidgets.com from this year so far:

• Ratio of Firefox users to IE users: 2.85. There are almost three times as many Firefox uses as IE users on this site. (Hooray.)
• Breaking IE down, ratio of IE 7 users to IE 6 users: 0.45. Not surprising, but still a little disappointing.
• Almost exactly 4 times the number of Camino users as Netscape users.
• 73 hits from Firefox 3 (yay early adopters!), and 3 hits from … MSIE 2.0. That is not a typo.
• More hits from NetNewsWire than OmniWeb and Opera combined (sorry Omni).
• 1 hit from iTunes. WTF?

I think that explains more about our site than I could ever hope to do on my own.

In an article from Coding Horror:

That’s the other problem with the Mac vs. PC debate: it completely misses the point. Computers aren’t couture, they’re screwdrivers. Your screwdriver rocks, and our screwdriver sucks. So what? They’re screwdrivers. If you really want to convince us, stop talking about your screwdriver, and show us what you’ve created with it.