A scheduled server outage will be occurring on some of our internal systems tonight.
The affected systems are listed below:
These outages will not affect any production web hosting accounts.
We expect the outage to last no more than 1 hour.
This morning we released a new version of our open source WordPress plugin, PrettyPress.
The release, version 1.0.5, primarily targeted 1 major bug, 4 minor bugs, and some backwards compatibility within the style sheets.
The major bug, which affected versions 1.0.2 through to 1.0.4, sometimes lost post data that had just been typed when a user pressed the “save” button from the PrettyPress publish menu.
The fix in 1.0.5 eliminates all chances of this bug reoccurring.
You can update PrettyPress directly from WordPress by pressing “update”, or you can manually install the latest version of PrettyPress from the GitHub page.
Happy posting!
Working in a position that revolves around technology and the digital world makes me feel like I should be warning each and every one of our Melbourne clients to take a backup of your data tonight.
The weather forecast for the Melbourne metropolitan area on Saturday is 40+ at this point, with a prediction of 34 on Sunday. A two day period of extreme heat and unattended offices isn’t a very friendly mix!
Small triangles have become a “thing” in user interfaces over the last couple of years. They appear everywhere from the eMarketeer home page to notification boxes on Facebook.
Assuming you’re building a site targeted to modern browsers, you’ll be very safe using CSS triangles. You can always have fall-back images.
Basically, we want an element with with zero width and height, but overflowing borders. Here’s an example of how to do exactly that.
Bam!
But this CSS craziness doesn’t end there – why not drop the “arrow” element completely, and have CSS automatically append an arrow to another element, like this example of drop down menu.
Go forth and abuse your CSS triangles!