Internet Explorer (IE) yanks a furry cats ass. If for any reason you disagree with me, then you’re retarded. It’s that simple.

Assuming you want to disable a few select options, don’t try the following in IE6:

<select name="ie_sucks">
   <option disabled="disabled">One</option>
   <option disabled="disabled">Two</option>
   <option>Three</option>
</select>

Although the above example is valid XHTML (and therefore works in Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc), IE6 displays all three options as selectable, as if the disabled option was never set. Thankfully lattimore.id.au has come up with a nice fix.

Puke you later IE.

Update: I should also note that IE7 doesn’t accept disabled="disabled" in an option field. Sweet Christ.

Iris Luckhaus has a collection of awesome artwork that looks strikingly similar to the early days of Captain America - or not. It’s good poo, people. Hug it.

iCal just plain rules. Though it’s not a super-detailed, completely all-knowing calendar application, it’s the most user friendly offline event tracker to date. (The best online calendar is Google Calendar, hands down.)

Allowing your loyal, web-savvy fans to download iCal files (enabling them to instantly add events to their iCal program), or subscribing to iCal feeds (allowing their iCal program to update the users calendar whenever they chose - much like RSS) can bring a smile to even the pickiest of web surfers.

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Here’s a group thinking outside the box of boxes. Luke Taylor, with Ed Heal, Chris Barrett, Tim Brown, Kieren Dickins and Kalvyn James designed Kingston University’s 2006 identity based around the idea that “at Kingston, we look at things differently”. Clearly, they do.

Cake can be a real bitch with errors. Deciphering exactly what went wrong (and in what file) can take way longer than it should. One such example was a blank Missing Layout error I received last week. Upon firing up one of my Cake apps on my server, the following appeared when visiting a particular page:

Missing Layout: You are seeing this error because the layout file can't be found or doesn't exist.

Notice: If you want to customize this error message, create /cat/views/errors/missing_layout.thtml.

Fatal: Confirm you have created the file :

Now normally, the last line above points you to the file it’s trying to find. This is Cake’s way of pointing you in the right direction - a hint, if you will.

Example: Fatal: Confirm you have created the file : \project\app\views\pages\index.thtml.

Cake’s “hint” to me was blank. CakePHP, eat me.

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