20110214 Google’s Valentine’s Day logo: a color blindness test or what?

As I’m in a bit of an owl mode lately, I was in front of the computer yesterday well past midnight. I visited Google to search for something a little bit after midnight and got hit in the face with their commemorative Valentine’s Day logo. I’ve always found the contrast between strong red and green [...]

20100701 Misused checkboxes

I wonder if this could be considered a bug or just a minor picky appreciation… it certainly confuses me, since only one box can be checked at the same time! Update: I submitted it anyway, let’s see what happens :)

20100622 Should PDFs be next?

Everyone has experienced this: you’re happily browsing a site, click on a link to get more information about something and then… TADA! You’re downloading a PDF! Or, depending on your browser’s settings, you could either have the PDF open in the very same window/tab, or get a new window/tab open with the PDF in them, [...]

20100612 Using jQuery’s inline Datepicker within a form

When you use the inline version of jQuery UI’s Datepicker within a form, it doesn’t submit its value back to the server, since there’s no form element in it. And that’s a pity, because I find the inline mode way more comfortable for users: rather than having to click a button in order to open [...]

20091019 Saving Netbeans workbench

I wonder if there’s a way to make Netbeans save its ‘workbench’ more often, so that when it is reopened again, it shows the documents I was really working on the last time I touched Netbeans. Unfortunately, what it does now is saving these snapshots only when I close Netbeans. Which isn’t very helpful if [...]