Gordaen's Blog

I’ve been developing my own blog software based on CodeIgniter in order to fill my few free minutes (though I’m also painting and taking on a lot of other projects; not unusual for me). I spent more than a week up front just brainstorming, thinking about what I want it to do. After that, I [...]

I noticed a few headlines lately about Apple receiving flak, particularly from Mozilla, for slipping an install of Safari onto people’s Windows machines. Personally, I find that Apple products work well with Apple products, but they rarely work as well on Windows. I wanted to give Safari a quick try on my laptop, which can [...]

Update: According to the IE blog, the IE team has changed its stance from what it was (as described in this post) to a more logical one. I intended to do another blog post about it, but other things in life have been more interesting (like getting sleep since I’ve been a bit ill). They [...]

What does the secret button do?

When I first started using OSX at work, it was a slightly rough transition. Some things work really well and other things are just not intuitive at all (like the key combination for taking screenshots). The one thing that I instantly loved was QuickSilver. It’s an application launcher and a lot more. The most basic [...]