Christian Heilmann

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Mint ate my server

Monday, September 12th, 2005

I just had to deactivate Mint on the CSS table gallery as it maxed out the server resources due to too many database connects per minute. I posted on the help forum and see if there is a way around that. A shame, I like the product a lot.

What kind of personality are you?

Friday, September 9th, 2005

The beep has a nice new test for you to find out what kind of personality you are.

Allegedly I am a big thinker

Blimey, you do like your tables, eh?

Friday, September 9th, 2005

The statistics of the first week CSS table gallery The CSS Tables Gallery is now online for the first week, and I am pretty speechless as to the success it has been. The statistics show that on average about 5800 people clicked the gallery and added up to 22000 hits.

The server, donated by NWU in Germany, had 3.2GB of traffic in the first 9 days of this month, compared to 4.6GB in the whole of August. (more…)

addEvent recoding contest

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

We all love Scott Andrew’s addEvent and how unobtrusive it allows us to add and remove event handlers from and to elements. But now things have turned sour and Peter Paul Koch gathers the forces of good to come up with a better solution:

I just launched the “addEvent() recoding contest”:http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/09/addevent_recodi.html, aimed at producing a new
version of Scott Andrew’s addEvent() and removeEvent() functions.

Script away!

Why good programmers are lazy and dumb

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Philipp Lenssen of google blogoscope has published a while ago truth I had known for a long time now Good programmers are lazy and dumb. I keep telling my developers that you don’t impress me by staying in the office late, you impress me by doing the 8 hour job in 6 hours with proper documentation. Then you can go home for all I care.

Most of my development happens because I don’t want to repeat things. EasyCMS was built to allow me quick changes to a prototype, EasyNav to allow clients using contribute to edit the navigation.