Scott Yang's Playground

A List Apart demonstrated how to achieve 3 column fluid layout with main content placed before sidebars in HTML. It actually addressed my issue a few days ago. Might it a try in the next few days.

LD sent me this link: Vim and its clippy assistant. “It looks like you want to do some regular expressions. Do you need help with that?” Urrh. I am sure it will also freak me out when something like this jumped out from my trusted Vim. Even more freaky is that someone actually did implement [...]

Happy Chinese New Year! 新年快樂!! Again, it doesn’t feel like Chinese new year here in Sydney. Very quite tonight, though I can hear the infrequent fireworks outside. Been to Amanda’s place with the rest of the Mandarin Bible Fellowship this afternoon. There were food (boil dumpling tonight) and games (acting out pictionary). But I still [...]

One of Guido‘s earliest assignment at Google is to write a mid-size web applications for internal use, and he is sharing his opinions on his research on Python web frameworks. At the end he hasn’t found anything that is satisfactory, even though the requirement is straight forward. By browsing through the comments, despite Python’s “one [...]

TW: Aaron Wall the “seobook” basically claimed that AdSense referral sux because there exists too many penalties for those “slow earners”. He is talking about the new $100 in 90 days recently discovered by JenSense. Personally I have never made anything through the AdSense referral (and probably never will), however I can understand why Google [...]

TUAW: Common mistakes made by new Mac users, and I have seen #1 way too many times: they close an application’s windows thinking the program has quit. The same also applies to the “maximise” button, as it rarely go full-screen. My personal mistake #1 is, hitting Enter on Finder thinking that it is going to [...]

SMH: Google another brick in China’s great firewall. Google wants to setup a mainland based search engine to combat compeition, but they need to abide China’s censorship rules, by blocking “unhealthy” contents from its search result. While it is not bad to have a search engine without the pr0n, they have immediately being labeled “evil” [...]

The next generation of Windows, the Really Good Edition, have everything you are familiar with, including the BSoD (SWF movie). Very funny. The only thing I haven’t managed to crash is Solitary, which I guess is one of the most tested application on everyone’s favourite operating system.

Ross Gittins of SMH argued that “it is neither possible nor desirable for proportion of university applicants being accepted to even remotely approach 100 per cent”. Yes — university is not (and shouldn’t be) for everyone, but these days it just feels “weird” if you don’t have a university degree (especially amongst us Asians). A [...]

Darren Rowse the “ProBlogger” raised a question — liquid or static blog layouts? I kinda agree with Chris’ comment here that liquid layout is more difficult to master than fixed width (give me “flex” attribute in XUL!!), however I do not think it is webmasters are necessarily lazy if fixed width design is implemented. In [...]