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I am Bran van der Meer, internet geek and Software Developer living in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I tend to make use of the nicknames branneman and branmovic all around the web, if you come across them, that's probably me. A proud INFJ I am. Including yoda syndrome.

This is my personal website where I put interesting stuff I come across, dump my often-used code snippets, and much more nice things! I think.

CSS3: Now, or not yet?

After having seen several CSS3 related talks and presentations at Fronteers 2010, I wanted to know whether it's ready for use right now, or not yet due to lack of browser support.

Internet Explorer starts supporting a lot of the new elements at version 9, but since it's still beta or whatever I consider it not current. IE does support quite a few CSS3-like features via their 'filter' property however, that's what makes the subject article-worthy.

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pyinfo() A good looking phpinfo-like python script

Being a native php guy, I'm used to having phpinfo(), giving me easy access to php.ini settings and loaded modules etc. So ofcourse I wanted to call the not existing pyinfo() function, to no avail. My fingers quickly pressed CTRL-E to google for a implementation of it, someone must've ported it already?

Yes, someone did. But oh my was it ugly. Preposterous! Since I cannot stand ugly layouts *cough*, I just had to build my own. So I used the code I found and cleaned up the layout to make it better. The official python website isnt that bad layout-wise, so why not steal their colors and background images? Yes that sounds like a plan to me.

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