Nerves

Beautiful weather in Stockholm today! Could've been a great day if it wasn't for it starting with me discovering an old Internet Explorer 6 and 7 bug I forgot about. Can't do position:relative elements inside a block if you want the block to be overflow:hidden. Luckily I managed to get around the bug pretty quick, or we'd have to scrap the whole feature.

I'm a peaceful man, living in harmony with myself and the world, but there's nothing that gets on my fucking nerves as much as that FUCKING Internet Explorer, Windows and all that Microsoft CRAP I have to live with in my job.

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Speaking about nerves, I haven't visited Nerve.com in many years now. It used to be one of my favourite sites back in the days. I loved the essays, the photos, the design and the whole community feeling it had to it. Looking at it right now, I think it still is pretty good. Some article pages got a great typography with 15 pixels font-size (I've recently discovered I love 15 or 16 px sized text, perhaps a sign of getting older) and the spacing, the images, it all holds together really nicely. Happy design that isn't necessarily perfect but makes you feel good.

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Attended a seminar last week and was asked to talk a little about Ajax and JQuery. While there isn't much to say about the few lines of code needed, it can still be the source of discussion on how to use it the best. The company where I'm currently employed use Microsoft .Net and Episerver for pretty much every solution, and coming from that world it's not clear why .Net sometimes clashes with other javascript functionality. Especially when it comes to postbacks and viewstates, which from a backend perspective is a nice and simple way of doing things, but for a frontend guy like me it's a horror. Inline javascripts, hidden fields, forms that surround the complete page and so on ... really everything you should avoid in a modern web production. All in all a good discussion, I learned a few things about CSS 3 selectors, and I also had to get back on what the difference is between preventDefault and "return false", which was kind of annoying that I couldn't answer at that point.

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Finally, I got a reason to download a trial of Flash and dust off my old skills. Realised a lot had changed since I last used Flash (Shockwave!), but after spending a couple of nights messing around, I had a working prototype of a game done. Actually, the goal was to have a prototype done but in the end I think I managed to make it almost complete, except for the lack of sound effects. Went pretty smooth and the game is fun and looks great! Wish I could post it here but I think it's right now under a NDA so ... maybe another time.

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This weeks best music album is "Two suns" with Bat for Lashes.