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elkteaon Ubuntu: What They're Doing Right and Wrong

The article doesn't cover the server side of things, which is a shame.

I've been experimenting with Ubuntu due to their native JeOS tools and so far so good. I'd be curious as to how different Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Precise are these days, from a server point of view.

elkteaon SSH client in Google Chrome

Can't even look at the extension using Firefox. Nice work Google.

elkteaon Font-face rendering solution for chrome

Firefox and IE, by default, use an odd hybrid approach where large fonts get DirectWrite but smaller fonts fall back to 'GDI' style rendering.

If you're using Firefox try these preferences out for a full DirectWrite experience:

    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;

elkteaon PostgreSQL 9.2: Full-throttle Database

I'm sure it will end up in back-ports soon.

elkteaon Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released

There's some nice WPF features in the 4.5 release, it's a shame it seems to have been replaced with WinRT as the UI language of choice in Windows 8.

elkteaon Pixel Perfect

The keyword you're looking for is 'DirectWrite'. Here's a post from January this year indicating they're working on it: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/...

elkteaon Goodfilms Goes Mobile

I couldn't get it to load the mobile version with my Windows Phone 7.

elkteaon 30 Days Without Sugar

How exactly is eating no sugar or fruit a starvation diet? You're way off on this one.

elkteaon JQuery Transit - CSS3 animations for jQuery

The 3D transformation marked 'Webkit only' works fine in Firefox Nightly

elkteaon Pagination 101

The best pagination style I have come across is this: http://karaboz.ru/2007/11/19/paginator-3000-postranichnaya-n...

Just add text links for previous, next, last and first and you're set.

elkteaon Candy Japan April Income Report

I was surprised not be greeted with high quality photos of examples of past candy. To see any of your product I need to find the 'past candy' link then decide on which unfamiliar product to click on.

elkteaon I only know PHP. How do I write a Web application in Python?

What about something like Flask-HTMLBuilder?

http://majorz.github.com/flask-htmlbuilder/

elkteaon Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2 Protocol

> So far the data shows that the severely limited gains it provides, it provides at the cost of significant complexity.

Source?