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Yes, its a cutsie name, but The Bug Genie is a PHP bug tracking system that is the opposite of Trac in the best possible ways. First of all you create a MySQL database and copy The Bug Genie files to your web server. Then you go to your website, where The Web Genie greets you [...]

I have just spent many hours of my life I will never get back trying to get the Trac bug tracking software set up. This software is truly junk. It’s not just that I can’t get it work, it’s that it is written as best it can to make users not be able to use it. [...]

Firefox has released a security update. Firefox isn’t my primary browser, that’s Safari, so sometimes I feel like there’s a security update available every time I open Firefox or Opera. Of course I test on them, though. I like that there are multiple browsers now, it’s a much healthier community. And they’re all better than Internet [...]

Oh Microsoft, will you ever learn? Only one day after downloading Internet Explorer 8, I ran into my first bug. And it’s not even tricky! It’s just something that should obviously be fine. (Watch, someone will point out my error now that I’ve said that!) It’s on my political blog, The Politimat, and it’s just a [...]

My dream of dreams is that Microsoft get out of the browser game. Don’t they see they’re only causing trouble? Today when working on some changes to the theme for Doxie News I realized that the first paragraph of every post was ignoring it’s margin-left. It appeared to be only margin-left, all the other properties, [...]

I learned something about button elements in IE7 today. If you don’t have both an open and a close tag, they will not close and will eat up all the rest of the content. If course it works fine, as it should, in all other browsers. Here’s what you want to avoid: <button type="submit" class="foo" /> And instead [...]