Stuart Colville

Work

Joining Yahoo!

Today was my second day at Yahoo! having started there on monday as a web developer. I've joined the web development team where I will be spending plenty of time getting to know the YUI libraries [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/]. It's great to be working

Google

Gmail adds select all conversations feature

I'm not sure exactly how new this is, but I've just noticed when you press the select all link in Gmail/Googlemail, a new option appears which says 'select all X conversations in "label"'. This is great. Now you can delete all

books

Beginning JavaScript

Christian Heilmann's book is soon to be winging it's way onto the bookshop shelves from the 17th July. Don't let the title mislead you there's some nice and chunky examples to get your teeth into. Check out the book's site

Google

Whassup with Google Analytics?

Eagle-eyed Tim [http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk] Mark [http://www.webmaxsolutions.com/] let me know earlier today that Google Analytics seems to have stopped collecting data. After checking my accounts I can concur that all of them have stopped collecting data. Now either this is a minor glitch in the Matrix

Firefox

Camino 1.02 Released

I recently switched to using Camino [http://www.caminobrowser.org/] as my main browser on the mac as it's so much faster than firefox. The only downside is that even with all of the add-ons that are available for Camino, I still need Firefox when it comes to

opera

Opera 9 released

Opera 9 was released yesterday. I tested it out on the Mac and I liked some of the new features. Anne van Kesteren has all of the more interesting technical changes listed [http://annevankesteren.nl/2006/06/work], aside from those it's really all just added gloss. Things

Life

29 Today

I'm 29 years old today. I'm sure my perception of time is changing so that it seems as though each year is going by at an increasingly faster rate. I'm not actually that worried about getting older even though it does seem like everyone

Events

That was @media 2006

So @media [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] for me at least is over now. It's been an excellent couple of days and has certainly surpassed last years event. The venue was really spacious, and less packed as a result and everything was really smoothly executed from the catering

Events

@media2006 Notes: Hot Topics Panel

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Hot Topics - Tantek Çelik, Jon Hicks, Molly Holzschlag, Jeremy Keith and Eric Meyer

Events

@media2006 Notes: Andy Clarke, Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. I remember A-level art having to paint a watercolour in 2 hours. When I

Events

@media2006 Notes: Nate Koechley Y! v. Y!

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Y! v. Y! Three Yahoo! Case Studies, Across the Page - App spectrum, One

Events

@media2006 Notes: Molly Holzschlag, Internationalisation: Awakening The Sleeping Giant

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. I'm talking about a topic that is very different for me to

Events

@media2006 Notes: Robin Christopherson: Beyond a code audit

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Head of Accessibility Services AbilityNet We are right across the board and don'

Events

@media2006 Notes: Dan Cederholm: Bullet Proof Web Design

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Flexibility in web design and preparing for worst case scenarios. Frustrated Reader: "Love

Events

@media2006 Notes: Jeffrey Veen: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Jeffrey Veen Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps Worked at Hotewired then started

Events

@media2006 Notes: The New Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG 2.0

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Andy Clarke, Patrick Lauke, Gex Lemon and Ian Lloyd The New Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG

Events

@media 2006 Notes: Chris Wilson: IE7 and beyond

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Browser guy since 1993 NCSA mosaic for windows Internet Explorer since 2.0 Web

Events

@media 2006 Notes: Jeremy Keith: Using DOM scripting to Plug the holes in CSS

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Jeremy Keith Clear:left Using DOM scripting to Plug the holes in CSS Last

Events

@media 2006 Notes: Eric Meyer Keynote

The following are my panel notes from @media2006. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. A decade of style In 1996 CSS first became available, IE 3 shipped in

@media2006 Starts Here

@media [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia/] begins tonight with the pre-@media party. I'm not sure where the time went, it seemed that not so long ago @media was something far ahead in the future. Anyhow, this event is looking to be great fun, there's going

Textmate

Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit

I really love TextMate [http://macromates.com/]. Everything about it oozes productivity. The only thing that I could say I didn't like was that there was no way to edit remote files in textmate (opened via transmit) using the tabs. That is up until now. Tabs in TextMate

Tech

What external hard drive do you use?

I'm currently in the market for a external hard-drive with about 250-300GB of storage that I can also boot my mac from in an emergency (so it'll need to have firewire). I've looked at the usual suspects, Lacie, iomega but nothing stands out. Let

Linux/Unix

Keeping ssh connections alive

Picture this; you come back from lunch at "My Old Dutch Pancake house" and every one of your ssh connections has been closed due to lack of activity. It's reasonable that the server you are connected to (or the hardware you are connecting through) closes connections

family

Being a Dad

So just for those of you who don't yet know, my fiance and I are expecting our second baby due in late November. Last week we went to have the first scan and the pictures that came out were really good. This scan seemed almost as detailed as

OSX

Alternatives to terminal.app on mac OSX

My new job at Multimap involves plenty of command line work and as I am working on a mac 100%, it's been well worth trying to find a set-up that makes it easy to switch between shells on multiple servers and directories. Initially I thought it would make