Shaken Not Stirred

RIP Steve Jobs

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Apple Inc.

Border-Radius Syntax

As it stands with CSS3 border radius we have to type what feels like a lot of code for such a simple thing.  It would be nice if the final spec will allow us to type it all in one line.

So instead of typing this:

-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 5px;
border-top-left-radius: 5px;
border-top-right-radius: 5px;

We should be able to type this:

border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;

UPDATE:

Apparently irregular corner support complicates the issue a bit, making my proposed syntax a bit hard to pull off as explained at css3.info and at the W3C site.

Ruby on Rails, MySQL, & Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I’ve had several people ask me about getting these three to play nice together… this is how I did it.

Older versions used a 32 bit version of MySQL. For this to work you need to get the 64 bit x86 version of MySQL installed.  The easiest way to do this is to use the official MySQL install named Mac OS X 10.5 (x86_64) (yes Snow Leopard is 10.6, but this one works).

There is a great set of instructions at Hive Logic… follow those and everything should be jake.