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Responsive Images: the solutions so far and a mixed new one

Posted in Code, Web Design, tagged , , , , on February 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I read the other day this fine article by Mat Marquis about his experiences, searches and conclusion on the issue of responsive images. It sparked my interest to look at the subject a bit more thoroughly. What are the responsive images? Or, better, what they should be? For a more elaborate explanation read Mat’s article. [...]

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A Calibre plugin for Greek book metadata

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , , on January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »

A few days ago, I sort of promised to deliver a plugin for Calibre for  greek book metadata. I had to dive into Python to accomplish this task but, as I said in the previous post, I had no Python knowledge. Thank God, all programming languages have many things is common. So, with the assistance [...]

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Bookmeta: a book metadata extractor for Greek books

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , , on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »

You know how it is: you want something that no program/service provides and you end up making it yourself. In my case, what I wanted was a metadata source for my books in calibre. I use calibre not only for tracking ebooks (which is what is made for), but also for normal, printed books. I [...]

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Opacity in Internet Explorer

Posted in Code, HowTo, tagged , , , on July 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »

This is an ancient problem: older versions of IE do not support the opacity CSS property. Instead, IE8 uses -ms-filter and IE prior 8 uses filter. Also, in IE, one has to be cautious about the positioning of the element the opacity properties apply to: the element has to be positioned for the filter to [...]

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Web 2.0 without javascript?

Posted in Code, Social media, tagged , , , , on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A couple of days ago I came across this terrifying presentation from John Graham-Cumming. Although the topics covered weren’t entirely new to me, put together in one presentation, had an impact.  I came to wonder if and how would the major web 2.0 sites work, if javascript was out of the picture. I decided to [...]

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Readburner chicklets for WordPress.com blogs

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This is not a how to blog, but, as it is still under construction, I will blog about all the little tricks I apply here, that might have some use for the rest of the wordpress.com folks. Here is a little nice one. Problem: Readburner is a service that aggregates all blogposts shared in NewsGator [...]

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