http://mentalized.net/journal/ The online journal of Jakob Skjerning, a freelance web application developer en-us Copyright 2012, Jakob Skjerning Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:49:43 +0100 Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/?v=5.04) 600 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,... http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/02/13/fact-checking_the_40/ 2134@http://mentalized.net/journal/ http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/02/13/fact-checking_the_40/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:49:43 +0100 Technology In which Jakob - unsuccessfully - tries to figure out how Flash support can be placed at 99% http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/02/05/flash_is_not_the_99/ 2133@http://mentalized.net/journal/ http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/02/05/flash_is_not_the_99/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:17:23 +0100 Technology On a client project, we had recently installed capistrano-campfire to get notifications in our Campfire chatroom whenever a deployment takes place. Unfortunately I kept getting SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) when I tried... http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/01/02/ruby_ssl_certificate_verification_errors/ 2131@http://mentalized.net/journal/ http://mentalized.net/journal/2012/01/02/ruby_ssl_certificate_verification_errors/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:52:24 +0100 Programming Dear Open Source Software I don’t think I have ever written you before, but there is something I wanted to get off my chest. I just wanted to let you know, that you rock! Just the other day, you saved... http://mentalized.net/journal/2011/12/18/dear_open_source_software/ 2127@http://mentalized.net/journal/ http://mentalized.net/journal/2011/12/18/dear_open_source_software/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:56:46 +0100 Software There are basically two kinds of deadlines: Real, and Arbitrary. Real deadlines are those necessitated by some external, unchangeable event. For example legislation, the company running out of money, the CEO having to get up in front of the world... http://mentalized.net/journal/2011/11/30/challenge_the_deadline/ 2129@http://mentalized.net/journal/ http://mentalized.net/journal/2011/11/30/challenge_the_deadline/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:06:49 +0100 Business