Augusta Ada King, née Byron, Countess of Lovelace was the world's first computer programmer and daughter of Annabella, a gifted mathematician who was passionate about educating her daughter in mathematics. This is my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day 2009.
Adding Twitter Status to Mambo
Social networking is hot at the moment. On this Mambo Monday I show you how to integrate your Twitter status updates into Mambo by using the in-built core functionality of site modules. You can use this technique to display your latest updates from Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, or any social networking site that provides updates in an RSS feed.
Internet Explorer 8 Release Bad News
After testing Internet Explorer 8 and putting it through it's paces from Beta to RC1, I felt confident about installing the final release. Big mistake! The release is not as stable as RC1 and a number of changes have crept in that are causing a whole lot of problems.
Business, Financial and Political Tweeters
In this #followfriday post I list my recommendations for people to follow on Twitter if you want to network with people focused on financial, political and/or business news and information.
Because I only follow people whose interests I share, this is not designed to be a list of people on Twitter - it is simply my list of the people I find most interesting and engaging. If you share my interests you may find them great folks to network with too.
Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility
Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 today, and also started sending out notices to sites that are on their master IE8-incompatibility list. How do you make your site compatible with IE 8 and ensure that it is rendered in Standards mode?
As at release date, Microsoft's IE8-incompatibility master list contains over 3,000 domains. Is your site on this list?
