After almost one month of collecting data with Microsoft’s new adCenter Analytics (beta)*, I wanted to have a closer look at the many detailed reports today (and then - of course - blog about it). Turns out I’ve been collecting largely useless data because I had failed to exclude parameters like “?gclid=…” and Microsoft Analytics [...]
Tagged adcenter, analytics, microsoftEver been in a situation where you had a picture with exactly the content (”message, meaning, …”) you wanted, but not with the right dimensions? Seam carving could have saved the day.
Tagged content aware resizing, image editing, seam carvingDouble-u double-u double-u is one of the few things you can say much faster if you say it in German (just say “v v v”). I’m German, so I continuously strive for efficiency (nah, possibly I’m just lazy), which is why it annoys me that I still have to type “www” in front of some [...]
there’s a much easier and faster option when it comes to small, rather static websites: change detection services! Here’s a few I found
Update: Heise made some modifications while I was writing this post, so not everything below still applies.
It’s summer time in Europe, many people are on vacation, others are distracted by the Olympics - if you were planning something outrageous, now might be a good time to get away with it. No, I’m not talking about [...]
One of my brothers sent me this link to John Nouanesing’s catalogue after seeing one of his designs on Ehrensenf (the German version of Rocketboom).
Me: “Too bad you can’t buy anything :(”
Brother: “I thought you had some contacts in China, this stuff is screaming to be sold”
Me: “Wouldn’t that be… you know…”
Brother: “Capitalism? ;)”
He’s studying [...]
First time I noticed this: The div with the logo and the language selection div below have a 10px solid left border in blue (matching the background color) and a 1px white bottom border, which leads to a nice gradient in Firefox 3:
Nice, though I wonder if this behaviour can be influenced. In IE, Firefox [...]
While I had read reports about successful mass SQL attacks on hundreds of thousands - by some estimates even millions - of websites months ago, I didn’t really care much, assuming that this issue would only concern outdated, irrelevant and poorly coded websites.
I realized I was wrong (partially wrong) about a week ago when I [...]
Does Expression Web (version 1 or 2) add tags (”lang spans”) to everything you type in design view? It nearly drove me crazy with this behavior and the many language-related options in different menus, but after I figured out what was going on I actually came to appreciate this feature (when working on multilingual sites).
Best of SQL injection attacks (no, it wasn’t me)…