Rants | Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson

Geek Girl Dinners - Great Idea, However..

7. February 2008

Well this post could go wrong, very wrong, the latest in the Geek Girl dinners has just been announced and this time it’s in the North, Manchester to be exact, and I think that’s fantastic, I’m in support of anything that helps women in technology (a nod to PHPWomen) infact I’m in support of anything [...]

Wait A Minute…. Did Microsoft Lie?

26. January 2008

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Microsoft announced that IE8 Will Pass the acid2 test, now the’ve announced that to get standards mode you need to add a special meta tag, right then… so the ACID2 test page doesn’t have that meta tag… so it doesnt render the ACID2 page properly… therefore.. IE8 doesnt pass the ACID2 test…. am I right?

Control Your RSS + Feedburner Feed

19. January 2008

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We’ve been running NorthPack for a couple of days now and I’m really happy with the progress, I have to say I’m quite suprised at the amount of people running feedburner (not that theres anything wrong with that) but its so…. visable in a default feedburner set you your feed is at feeds.feedburner.com/yourFeedName, thats all well [...]

Horizontal Accordion’s

12. August 2007

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How hard is it to find a bloody decent horizontal accordion that isn’t stuffed with code or doesn’t work properly on certain browsers…. Heres a few I found but none of them I really Like to be honest.. http://dev.portalzine.de/index?/Horizontal_Accordion–print This is a nice effect but it doesn’t seem to work locally, it really does look like the xbox [...]

I’m Sick of the Microsoft Bashing Culture

5. June 2007

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I’m love working with technology, I love working with computers, I have friends who do the same and I try and meet as many people as I can who follow technology, but it seems that everytime a couple of technology enthusiasts get together, The topic of Microsofts Dominace always comes up (it seems to be [...]