<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="none" href="/css/safari.css" id="safari" />
<script type="text/javascript">
	// matches all safari/chrome versions
	if(Prototype.Browser.WebKit) {
		$('safari').media="all";
	}
</script>

If you set the media attribute to none - no media device will display it. By adding the little if statement, you can check if the Browser is WebKit, which is the engine name of safari or chrome and alter the media value to all.

If you do not use prototype, you can do it like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
	// targets safari 3 - not 2!
	if(window.devicePixelRatio) {
		document.getElementById('safari')media="all";
	}

	// targets all safari or better said webKit engines
	if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') > -1) {
		document.getElementById('safari')media="all";
	}

	// prototype way + targeting old and new webKit with two stylesheets
	if(Prototype.Browser.WebKit) {
		var mySafari = (window.devicePixelRatio) ? 'safari3' : 'safari2';
		document.getElementById(mySafari)media="all";
	}
</script>

Note, this method shouldn’t be used for “accessible” Websites, because it relies on javascript. You can do it then serverside as well by “sniffing” the UserAgent from the HTTP Request and add your little switch there - whereas this isn’t a 100% safe method though, because some people alter their UserAgent strings and there are tons of vendors/versions thus your detection may fail from time to time.

An alternative to this way is to load the needed script on the fly, so you can reduce a HTTP Request, by writing the link tag dynamically to your document. However - the describe method above is shorter

// in php it would be:
preg_match("/(.{1,15}(\s))/", $yourString, $matches);

// or in java something like this - maybe ; )
Pattern myPattern = Pattern.compile((.{1,15}(\\s)));
Matcher myMatch = myPattern.matcher(yourString);

To put it in plain english:
* get the first 15 characters (same as substring)
* BUT - and here goes the magic: match less until you find a whitespace character and cut the rest.

So it could look like this in php:

<?php
// you could check the length of the string but actually you don't need to ...
$myString = "People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.";

preg_match("/(.{1,15}(\s))/", $yourString, $matches);
echo $matches[0]." ...";

// would print:
// People seem to ...
// and with {1,27}
// People seem to enjoy things ...
?>

beer o’clock! cheers

At my work we usually do Java/JSP stuff but a few weeks I did a small PHP Job here and today I made the statistic in mysql. Actually nothing special but a welcome change if you imagine stupid JSP Struts tasks day in and day out and boring style-stasi requests from project managers and so on. But I am hip to the spirit and love computer work - or at least the creative-innovative part of it - the rest I try to reject and forget. Actually it is always the same - some project manager come up with a kick ass idea and then during the production it gets reduced to something really boring and forgettable unimportant whatsoever.

My coffee is empty [...] ^^

However, if you need to delete multiple rows over multiple tables, you may do something like this:

DELETE stats, links, logins
FROM promo_stats AS stats
LEFT JOIN promo_links AS links USING(promo_link_id)
LEFT JOIN promo_logins AS logins USING(promo_login_id)
WHERE stats.promo_item_id=6;

Nevertheless I am a very kind IT guy and explained the issue to him - So I wrote him that a link to an external resource always consist out of: 1) a protocol name, 2) an instruction for the browser that it is an external resource :// and finally 3) the domain name and last but not least the TLD and optional paths or parameters.

You may call me a fault finder but that’s something that happened not the first time. I guess this is a classic example of: stupid new media. People who are working in the new media should knew what a friggin link is - especially when they are Project Manager of a website!

Instead of cryptic passwords, use phrases and or simple sentences. If you just enter some phrases as possible pass phrases it doesn’t work very well, but if you use a directory it does. Plus, you can serve i18ln passwords if you add a locale.

The easiest sentence is SVO structured but “Tim like Dogs” sucks and isn’t fancy at all, so I’m going to use a more stylish composition. Factual phrases with *izm nouns instead of boring objects! RaaaaR.

Here’s a simple MySQL Table:

CREATE TABLE passphrazes (
	passphraze_word 	varchar(30) 					NOT NULL,
	passphraze_type 	enum('subject','verb','noun') 	NOT NULL,
	PRIMARY KEY (passphraze_word)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin;

If you still wonder about it - the magic goes here:

SELECT concat(
	(SELECT passphraze_word
		FROM passphrazes
		WHERE passphraze_type = 'subject'
		ORDER BY RAND()
		LIMIT 1),
	'-',
	(SELECT passphraze_word
		FROM passphrazes
		WHERE passphraze_type = 'verb'
		ORDER BY RAND()
		LIMIT 1),
	'-',
	(SELECT passphraze_word
		FROM passphrazes
		WHERE passphraze_type = 'noun'
		ORDER BY RAND()
		LIMIT 1)
);

No clue jet? Well, by selecting random rows you can generate funny phrases like:

He allocated nahualism.
She reinforced mithridatism.
They served social-evolutionism.

Then style it and additionally pimp it more secure (replace spaces with dashes, plus signs, or even camelize it) in your favourite coding language:

He-allocated-nahualism.
SheReinforcedMithridatism.
They+Served+social-evolutionism.

The use case is hopefully obvious. If someone sign up at your site and you generate the first time password for the user, why not something meaningful? There are tons of possibilities to combine words unique.

*updated*

Also I’ve canceled the 16mbit / VOIP Alice Contract and ordered a VDSL 25 MBIT/ISDN line from t-kom and hope we’ll get it until next month.

Also I’ve installed chrome, googles new browser but more importantly it seems to me that googles war against MS reaches another level. I wonder what MS will be in two years. MS loses constant market share in the browser business and I’ll be surprised about the Moz Foundation and google corporation in the future. Firefox has meanwhile a good share with ~20% and as someone mentioned some weeks ago, every laptop above 1000 USD is a Mac. Yarr, and there is no IE since 5.5 for the Mac and every development ist discontinued. Thus I assume that the IE will no more be the browser to develop for (primary) in future, because it will be just one amongst of many. And! If the antitrust law finaly forbid the bundling of Browser/OS - then a long fought war is eventually won!

However!

Updates may also appear in the real world and yesterday I’ve (managed to) updated my competent revenue authorities with the “est”, “gse” and “n” Papers, without any assistance … *sigh* :p

» http://areal-records.com/

The site relies on prototype, some web 2.0 gimmickry, scriptaculous and the pear framework, a wonderful combine script for CSS and JS. Firefox 3 still needs some »pimping« but for all the other browsers it should work fine, as far as I can tell.

It’s midnight.

Note: I had to pay 20 Euro tariff for 5 T-Shirts.

The only reason I’ve noticed them is, our balcony doors are next to each other and both are wide open. But for my excuse, I’m still fixing a database - or better said, I do a modification. for writershops.com I use the world DB from MySQL plus an extra column for the CIA facts book country code. However, I’m still thinking about to extend it with postal codes and make it public to everyone. Maybe. Time-management is not one of my primary attributes so far.

Tomorrow we have “beer and sausage” at our company, which is quite cool - I mean the fact that we do such things on company time and money. Each first Friday on every new month one department is organizing this little event. Last time we had Becks, this time we’ll have Berliner and sausages.

However (I love this word), I’m currently working on a new JavaScript lib, with a carousel, an interactive navigation and some tab switcher, a lightbox, some fx wrapper and other stuff, based on prototype and scriptaculous. That it nothing phenomenal, but I try to keep it slick as possible and of course flexible. ATM you still can apply any function to the callback functions »beforeStart« and »afterFinish«, via one method call. I’ll post the code when I’ve got something like a milestone release, which seems to be end of July.

I’ve ordered 5 new shirts at threadless.com again and I’m looking forward to wear em.

The Beginning

Tools Of The Trade

Fake Pandas Have More Fun

No More Bento

Terrible Wonderful Strange

On the way back we’ll visit my family, especially my Grandma, Mom and Cousin, because I haven’t seen them for quite a while. I guess 2 Years for now and plus that: my Dear haven’t seen Hamburg yet! Haha, that’s a lot of things to do in just 5 Days. 3 Cities and approximately 1.000 km by car - but the beach will excuse everything

I also feel very comfortable in my new cargo pants (carhartt) and white addidas superstars (v2) …

However - it is Wendsday and I should continue to work on the site mentioned above. The sun IS still shining! ^^