In an in-depth article, Christian Heilmann goes through the failings of older DHTML techniques and shows how to fix them with more up to date unobtrusive DOM scripting. See Christian’s full article over at icant.co.uk . In the article Christian shows two examples of a dummy site to draw attention to the differences between the two approaches.
Here’s a post I wrote over on the Project Fondue Blog about our use of Loggerhead with mod_wsgi under Apache. Loggerhead is the rather nice branch viewer for bazaar branches as used on Launchpad.net.
If you’re not already subscribed to the Project Fondue blog feed then I can recommend it, as there should be some interesting posts coming out of there in the coming months (yes I’m unashamedly biased!).
I found the changing with the workspace with the mouse wheel really annoying. To disable it go to System => Preferences => CompizConfig (available if the compizconfig-settings-manager package is installed) and uncheck “Viewport Switcher” which is under the “Desktop” heading.
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