Welcome!
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.
I created a bookmarklet which can resize your browser window to any of the common resolutions. It currently has all the common desktop, Android (both tablet and phone) and iOS screen sizes.
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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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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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