Mentalized

Rails 3, ActionMailer, and Google Apps for Domains

Tue, 08 May 2012 18:08:43 +0100

After upgrading my Redmine installation to Redmine 2 (the development branch) emails stopped being delivered. I send emails through Google Apps for Domains, so I had the following in my configuration.yml (previously email.yml): delivery_method: :smtp smtp_settings: address: smtp.gmail.com port: 587...

All lights are green

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:44:43 +0100

The following are quotes from an actual email conversation with a potential customer. I'm no fan of bullshit NDAs, so I'm just sending this and I trust you that this'll not end up on Twitter or anything I know quality...

CSS, links, gradients, rounded corners, and IE

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:39:18 +0100

On a project we were recently given a nicely designed button that we should implement. No problem, I thought, that’s doable using CSS3. Behold, it was (non-interesting styles like font color and size are removed for clarity): HTML

Fact-checking the 40%

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:49:43 +0100

Last week I riffed on an infographic which erroneously claimed that Flash is “supported on 99% of web browsers”. They compared that number to 40%, which is supposedly the amount of web browsers that “HTML5 is supported by”. Oh really,...

Flash is not the 99%

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:17:23 +0100

In which Jakob - unsuccessfully - tries to figure out how Flash support can be placed at 99%