Software Development

On this blog, I converted all png's to gif's just to make the few left still using IE happy. That's right, IE is now a minority when it comes to technical sites or sites that require a higher education such as art, physics, math, biology and such. I wish Opera were more used, but Firefox is leading the way right now. Actually, I wish the news updating didn't freeze my computer. Hey, Opera programmers! Ever hear of threading???

I've been trying to figure out why the graphics would not refresh or draw correctly. It seems that there's no consensus in browsers what the default URL is after a redirection, at least when it comes to CSS images. The Opera site moved most blog images from my.opera.com over to files.myopera.com and set up redirections for the old location. Sometimes the graphics would load, sometimes not. It depended on which of those two was the last referred url. I think that's what was happening. So I hardcoded the full URL with domain name and all for all my images. My images are on files.myopera.com and the ones that I'm using from the template for calendars and such are still on my.opera.com. What a pain. Yet another example of the web in shambles. Shambles? Is that a word? Who cares?

Because all images are redirected, it would reload all my menu images every time you would move the mouse over them. But since the last URL references may not be files.myopera.com, sometimes it would not load. The same would happen with the top graphics. Anyways, let me know if you experience these problems or if it shows up ok now. I've tested with Opera, IE and Firefox so it should be good to go. If you're using something else, sorry but there browsers are enough for now. The graphics also show up ok in IE except for the menu bar which is a shade off from the buttons, but that's IE for ya. The top graphics shows up ok though.

Thanks for the patience and please let me know next time something screws up.


edit: I should maybe comment on the new titles. I no longer consider myself a programmer. Programming is the sequencing of events. I don't believe that is what software's about. I believe it's about the management of data and their transformations. So the title is only "Software Development". It's all encompasing and doesn't mention programming.

About "Correcting The Future" subtitle, I believe that we've been robbed of our futures when it comes to computing. We should be years ahead of where we are at now. Thirty years ago, the future that is today should not be an identical copy of what was happening back then. The future should have been about newer and more powerful ways of writing software. Today, all we have is faster computers and faster tools (occasionally). But no real advancements. So I'm going to try and fix the future and put it back on track. I can't do it in my lifetime, but maybe I can accelerate it enough that the future will one day be where it should have been all along. We're at least 30 years behind the times. I think fixing the future is a good idea.