What weekend?
I’m sitting here waiting for an app to build to do some testing. It’s Saturday morning. I should be sleeping, or working around the house, or heck, playing WoW! No, instead I’m coding, as I usually am. I’m pretty frustrated at that.
The thing that’s so frustrating about being a software developer is that a lot of times there are setbacks/delays that are in fact not really anyone’s fault. Maybe Microsoft’s. Yesterday I lost about half a day of work because our source control app decided to throw a fit. Now I’m making that up, as well as a few other minor things that I wasn’t able to get to. Since I’m tired and unfocussed it’s probably going to take most of the day (if not weekend,) to make sure everything is done and done right, and it’s no one’s fault! I have no recourse to prevent it from happening in the future, it’s just kind of the luck of the draw.
In other news, yesterday during some downtime I started tweaking my website a tad trying a few new ideas. I have the home page about 60% done. I need to cleanup and switch out some graphics, then restructure the interior pages a bit and I should be done. The front page has become more of a portal style, showing the latest post, latest photos, about info, and all the nav necessary. It’s still broken in IE, but it always is since IE can’t handle hardly any standards, spaces things differently than ALL the other browsers and is generally a peice of crap. Seriously people, stop using IE.
Well my app is built so I’m going back to the coding. This evening we’re getting Leah a DS Lite, probably some books. I think this week I’m going to have a Japanese food night so I can break out our rasberry sake. Hope everyone is doing well, I’ll stick my head up again soon and see what’s going on.
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Comment by Fullman — July 22, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
You know, things might actually be easier for you if you don’t openly hate MS/IE
It’s a wierd concept, I know, but I actually found development easier when I wasn’t looking to blame them for having to do a little extra work and just did it. It’s Firefox that appears to require a little more hand-holding in terms of CSS in order to get things just right, and then that extra hand-holding usually creates just a little more work for IE.
You can indeed design for cross-browser compatability without much effort if you don’t go in hating one side over another.
Comment by Alex — July 22, 2006 @ 6:05 pm
I don’t design for, or even use firefox. I make sure the code is standards compliant first. Usually at that point it looks just as I intended in opera, safari, camino, and usually even firefox.
Secondly tweak for browsers, IE is lowest on the list for tweaks priority wise because it always takes the most time–not because its flaws are really any worse than other browsers, but fixing for IE tends to break other browsers. I end up having different css sections for IE and other browsers. IE is the least of my annoyances with microsoft though, while it’s quirky in handling of web standards it’s consistent and you can get there. My main MS grievances come from quality control in their OS and development platforms.