Google Chrome is here!

The new browser from google is here...if you have a Windows PC running XP SP2 or higher.
A Mac and Linux version on the way soon. Boo you Google :(

If you have a smelly Windows PC, you can download it here

DIE, DIE...

...IE6! For you have long been the bain of my life.

I wish that I could turn my back on IE6, as most web dev's do. I'm pleased there's lots of chatter at the minute about stopping support for it.

I like this a lot The Ultimate way to stop supporting IE6 and clearly web professionals are pretty much in agreement.

But sadly for me, and a lot of transactional sites, we simply cannot afford to be turning away customers, and yes, I do appreciate some people have computers so old that they can't upgrade. It's easy to say they SHOULD, but people have different priorities and means in life.

I checked our logs today and a massive 46% of our traffic is IE6 - although people do suggest that a lot of bots use the IE6 agent, so I need to have a look at that, because 46% is depressingly high.

I long for the day I can stop hacking my lovely designs about. I'm off to dance around a burning big blue e.

Start and stop mysql on OSX

If you want to start MySql in Leopard, you need to call the startup item directly from the command line:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start

And to stop it:

sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop