Last Friday, I visited YorkU to attend a vendor presentation on their development of a next generation ILS. One that has been built from the bottom up to be a next generation ILS. I’ve written up some of the notes I took, which will hopefully give people a general idea of what Intota is about. Continue reading “Intota by Serials Solution”
I thought I’d put up this short post because I was having problems with this last week.
For whatever reason, Firefox would not update automatically through its update channel and was still stuck on version 9.0. So, I figured why not just manually install it?
When trying to update it, as usual, I dragged it into the Applications folder and tried to replace my existing one. Only to get this message:
The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.
I unlocked the Firefox.app file and made sure I had proper permissions, but still got that error. When I wanted to look up a solution, my Firefox had ceased to work!
After much searching, I finally found a thread on the Firefox support forums that provided the simple solution: delete the old app (just the .app, don’t use an app cleaner) then drag the new one in.
I would’ve reported it, but I can’t seem to reproduce the problem now… maybe they fixed it.
I don’t normally do book reviews, but Jon Duckett’s HTML & CSS book was brought to my attention via twitter and it looked interesting, so I thought I’d give it a read.
If you’re the type that was discouraged from learning basic web programming because of the manual-like books, then I would definitely recommend this book. The information is presented in very visual ways and while there are a few pages here and there that have nothing but code on them (for full examples), almost every page has an image of some sort, whether as explanation or for decorative purposes.
While there are a couple of concepts I wish were explained in a little more detail with visuals (such as CSS selectors), I appreciate that Duckett will discuss deprecated tags and elements, which are still commonly seen, and point out which browsers do not support certain properties.
He also provides lists of practical websites or tools to use including commercial and open source alternatives. Code and extras can be found on the website, which can be useful even for those who never crack open the physical book.
The Conclusion
It’s what it purports to be. So, I highly recommend it for beginners and maybe even those that want an easy to digest review (it’s very easy to skip sections you feel you already know).
