Author Archives: Michael Ryvkin

Compressed Nifty Corners

Friday, January 16, 2009 – 7:08 PM

Recently I was experimenting with different techniques and libraries that implement rounded corners with no images. Nifty Corners Cube by Alessandro Fulciniti was among them. I liked the fact that the library detected background color and padding of the target element. This allows the technique to degrade gracefully if JavaScript is disabled. As a rule [...]

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Hungry Microsoft mouse

Thursday, January 8, 2009 – 7:02 PM

Recently I was in the nearest Circuit City store and picked up laptop mouse. It is a regular mouse with no additional buttons or features. When I saw system requirements printed in fine print on the back of the package, my eyes popped out – 100 MB of free space on hard drive! It is [...]

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PHP5 / WordPress on Windows

Thursday, December 18, 2008 – 7:13 AM

Before going live with WordPress I have decided to try it out on my laptop. It was a time to upgrade my PHP installation as well. I downloaded and installed the most recent version of PHP5 in a zip package and configured Apache to use it. However the following message appeared when I tried to [...]

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