I decided to start paying attention to my Feedburner and Google Analytics stats, and how can I put this… no one reads this blog. I found this lovely information out after installing the WordPress Reports plugin.

I must admit that this info does make me a little sad, but I’m hardly surprised. I don’t post very often as I’m usually spending at least 12-14 hours a day at the office and free time comes at a pretty high price.

At least I’m regularly tweeting

One thing I have been doing lately, other than beating my head against some current project’s development limitations… err I mean requirements has been to regularly post tweets to the very popular Twitter service for a while now. Other RSS come as various forms of Audioscrobbling, I’m posting to Last.fm and Virb all day every day, and have considered taking Emily Chang‘s example and putting together a lifestream. The idea of a lifestream for me raises an age-old question…

Which comes first, the life or the lifestream?

I figure, if I aggregate a lifestream, I’ll at least have one of them. In the meantime, I’ll just post a link to my Tumblr

Books, reviews and all that crap

On my desk sits hundreds of dollars of books, most of which I’ve already read, and more than half of them I’ve enjoyed. So you may start to see occasional book reviews pop up on here from time to time.

My blogger code is B9 d+ t+ k s u+ f i+ o+ x e+ l- c+

I got it here http://leatheregg.com/bloggercode/. Get yours.

• getting a late start after a 16 hour day yesterday #
• made my first friend on the twitter #
• deciding to leave the comfort of my office for the comfort of my home office #
• Tweeting from my phone #
• Waiting for the 6 train #

originally posted here http://www.krop.com/jobs/48c5y/

Client-side developer (mid-level or wizard)

Lemme break it down for you

• Love what you do, we do and that’s why we’re here.
• Be great at what you do, we try our best to be great, so it’s fair to ask it of those we work with.
• Never claim you know it all, unless I’ve bought a book with your name on it.

We’re not just looking for a specific skill-set, it’s all about your smarts, personality, and what you can bring to the table.

So let us know if you can answer a few of the following, or have any other interesting stuff notched on your belt:

• Do you know all the basic standards compliant, unobtrusive, semantic and accessible stuff?
• Can you tell us what browser likes *:first-child+html ?
• Know $()? can you .bind()?
• Are you friends with designers? Did you used to be one?
• Have you worked on the agency side before? If not, tell us why.
• Solid knowledge of AS 2.0+ a plus
• LAMP, .NET, or Rails. a plus

We are Ultra16, we have a big green wall, an office in NoHO, AirTunes, andoften hang out at the office just because we want to. We also have beenaround since the 90’s and work with clients who you’ve probably heardof.

To apply just hit us up at humanresources@ultra16.com with your resume, some links to your work, a code sample if you feellike it, and a paragraph or two about yourself (don’t be afraid to showyour personality)

Max over at OpenLaszlo was writing about some browser/quirk detection that he put together for v4.0. He listed in his post a number of quirks for IE7, some of which I was aware of, and some I wasn’t.

• Can’t set opacity on any div that contains <input type="text"/> or <textarea/> without getting nasty visual artifacts in the text field.
• Must use the AlphaImageLoader if we want opacity to apply to a div and all its children.
• AlphaimageLoader must have its src property set to the URL of an image to prevent a red x/missing image icon from appearing
• AlphaimageLoader does not send onload/error events – instead we have to use the img tag mentioned above
• IE 7 still has memory leaks for apps loaded in iframes
• Empty divs with style.backgroundColor set appear ~10px tall unless they contain an img (for less than 2px tall) or have style.fontSize = '0px' applied.
• IE does not support ' when setting a div’s innerHTML property
• IE does not send onclick/onmouse* events for divs without a blank image attached

One of my favorite IE7 quirks has to do with z-index being overrided by the order in which the element appears in the DOM. If a div has a z-index of any positive number and it’s followed by a div with a z-index of anything less, and they are positioned in an overlapping manor, the div that comes second in the DOM appears in front of the div with the higher z-index value.

What are some of your "favorite" IE7 bugs / quirks? I’d like to put together a comprehensive list.