I want a stair case like Veronika & Sebastian. Books both sides of the stair case and books in the steps themselves – such a good idea by Levitate Architects that, if I had the money, I’ll have them round like a shot to do our house like that. More pics available at http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ ny/ at-europe/ at-europe-london-closeup-the-amazing-staircase-042543.
Richy's Random Ramblings
We’ve just felt quite a strong tremor at 27-Feb-2008 01:00am UTC here in Leicestershire. I suspect it was probably an Earthquake – but has anybody else felt the earth shake tonight?
From via Devtopics is Bill Gates’ Farewell speech at CES 2008 – and until this point, I never knew he had a sense of humour. Featuring “Billy G”, Monkey Boy, Clinton and Obama, Spielberg, Bono and a host of other big names this Youtube video is quite funny.
Just a quickie: From Tim of Sacratee there is a post on Jatecblog about Making use of Object Oriented PHP which provides a good simple example of how to use OOP in PHP5 to build a module-based system.
Until yesterday, if I was doing a design for a website I would either need access to multiple machines with multiple different web browsers on multiple different operating systems – or (and this is the route I took), just set up virtual machines (I used Microsoft VirtualPC which is free of charge) to get as many environments running as possible and then just cross my fingers.
But no longer is this needed! I’ve just come across Browsershots.org which generates previews of your website in around 60 different browsers/browser versions/operating systems with you giving the chance to specify if Java/Javascript/Flash should be enabled or disabled, which screen resolution should be used, what colour depth etc. So if you’ve been developing in a 1280×1080 64million colour Windows Vista with Windows IE 7 environment, but wanted to check it looked ok on Safari on an Apple Mac in 800×600 or Epiphany 2.20 on Linux FreeBSD 6.3 in 8 bit colour, now you can!
It is free of charge by default, although you can pay just $10 a month for “priority previews” if you wanted.