http://furtivecode.com Chris Lamothe's weblog. Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:37:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the HTML5 Super Friends have chimed in on what concerns them most about HTML5, I decided to get to know each of the Super Friends by adding them to my RSS reader.  Here's a short description of each one: Dan Cederholm is an expert in the field of standards-based ... http://furtivecode.com/2009/09/07/the-html5-super-friends-who-are-they/ The baby is now about 12.5 cm or just under 5 inches, producing urine and actually urinating into the amniotic fluid. It also can practice "breathing" the amniotic fluid in and out of its lungs. http://furtivecode.com/2009/08/17/pregnancy-week-14/ Trying out the Bird Feeder plugin for Wordpress to syndicate my posts to Twitter. http://furtivecode.com/2009/08/17/bird-feeder/ Six months ago I donated $40 to the manufacturing of an album.  Along with 410 other contributors of the Kickstarter community, we managed to raise $8,648 towards the recording of Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, considered to be the greatest jazz ... http://furtivecode.com/2009/08/17/kind-of-bloop-crowdsourcing-an-album/ Sarah and I spent the weekend up at Lake Minnewanka for the Banff National Park Dragon Boat Festival.  Our team, representing The Banff Centre, managed an unexpected first place finish in the division C mixed category, completing 500m in 2 minutes and 26 seconds.  Not bad for a rookie team ... http://furtivecode.com/2009/08/16/dragon-boat-racing/ Support for fonts on the web has been a sore spot for a long time, but that's all about to change with both Firefox 3.1 and the latest Webkit (Safari, Opera, Google Chrome) properly support CCS 3's @font-face property.  Now browsers will be able to automatically download fonts from an ... http://furtivecode.com/2008/12/05/the-new-face-of-fonts-on-the-web/ Before replacing my  old Motorola RAZR with an iPhone I needed to backup up all of my photos.  Unfortunately Motorola's naming convention for images is terrible:  DD_MM_YY-hhmm.jpg, if you try sorting that you get all the photos taken on the first of any month grouped together, followed by all those ... http://furtivecode.com/2008/02/13/renaming-files-with-date-standards/ If you've waited until now before upgrading to Ruby on Rails 2.0 now you may be in for a little surprise.  As of version 2.02 the default database in Rails is SQLite, arguably because there is no need to for grants or the creation of tables, meaning a simpler setup ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/12/28/rails-sqlite-replaces-mysql-as-default-database/ This Lotus Notes script strips email attchements using an Agent instead of Rules. Lets say you want to forward mail from your Lotus Notes account but want to strip attachments, you'll definitely want to try the following script. It's perfect for sending your mail to your sexy new iPhone without ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/12/18/how-to-filter-email-attachments-in-lotus-notes/     Leopard (OS X 10.5) has its fair share of goodies, including a new and improved terminal client with *gasp* tabbed windows. I thought this feature would be great news, since as I wouldn't need to install the venerable iTerm in much of the same way that Spaces has supplanted ... http://furtivecode.com/2007/11/04/terminated/