tfnico's blog

I've just added some ads to this blog as well as my homepage . This is more out of curiosity than it is for making money, but maybe it'll be enough to pay for the domain ;) I'll keep them for a few weeks, and then take them away if there are any complaints. Please give me a tweet or a comment if you think they have a detrimental effect on the content.

I'm giving docs.google.com another try. I  tried it over two years ago (wow, time flies) when Google Docs was still Writely. Oh, my prediction did come through (they got bought by Google), wuhu! So if this post gets doubly published it's because it got screwed up. Update: docs.google.com didn't manage to publish the title properly. I also have to apply some tags manually. All the pictures and headings came through allright, though. New books I just got these books: They're all from  The Pragmatic Bookshelf , although I got them from Amazon (who sent them from New-Zealand, which gave me sort of a bad eco-concience for a while..) cause they were alot cheaper there. The first title, The Pragmatic Programmer. Well, I'm sort of ashamed that I haven't read it before, being as famous as it is. However, I'm looking through the TOC, and I sort of get the feeling I've touched most of the points, either by hard realization and experience, or by advice from friends...

Now I had to do some more fixing on this blog. Turns out the width of the column in the blog really didn't suit my content. I know people like reading narrow columns, but I like stuffing large images and tables into my posts, and given that my posts can be somewhat long, I think thin columns make single posts look too.. long. So I started fiddling around with the template, and pretty soon managed to mess it up pretty bad. I ended up removing all background images, the blogspot-navbar, left-aligning the whole thing while making the header 100% wide, which is nice, but I still don't like the left-aligned content. So my CSS-knowledge is as crappy as ever, but hey, I'm a programmer, not a designer (which reminds me of another post I have to do soon: " The programming designer; a rare breed of which we are in dire need" . Now I'm adding some feedburner stuff. Took a wee while to find their JS snippets, they've got something called FeedFlare , which I can imag...

I have already converted it, but I chose to stick with my old template design because I like it. Still, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of nice new widgety functionality, and no better time than my birthday to figure out how it goes. Logged in Template settings Customize Design Upgrade your template! Chose one of the booring ugly templates Saved Quickly added some javascript components to the template (blogroll and linkroll) Saved And done. Wow, that was easy.. Still having problems publishing posts from Google docs/Writely with titles, but maybe this one will work? Edit: Still doesn't work. What a pain in the arse. Manually setting title for the 100th time. But also trying out the tags.