DHH Keynote @ RailsConf Europe 2007
RailsConf Europe 2007 in Berlin finished just over a week ago and for those of us who didn’t make it along the presentation slides and videos are now appearing online. David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote was recorded and published thanks to the guys at Rails on Wave.
RailsConf Europe 2007 Presentations
DHH Keynote Video (full-screen)
Further details from DHH’s talk have been blogged in detail. Personally, I’m really looking forward to the release of Rails 2.0; evolution rather than revolution.
iPhone UK launch date announced
Friday, 9th November has been added to my diary. After months of speculation the UK release of the iPhone was announced today at a press meeting in the London Apple store (which I visited just last week). The iPhone is available from 02 here in the UK at a cost of £269 for the handset and a minimum £35 / month contract (for 18 months).
The good news is that you get an unlimited data plan, the bad news is no 3G, which is a major draw-back. To counteract the 3G slip, Apple announced free WiFi for O2 iPhone users at the 7,500 hotspots serviced by Cloud in the UK.
... just in case you were wondering, YES I will be buying one.
Firefox on Mac OS X tab problem
An unexpected behaviour of Firefox on OS X is that when tabbing through web pages, especially forms, certain elements are skipped. This is quite annoying when form filling since you cannot tab to the “submit” button (or use the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google without resorting to the mouse).
Correcting this is in fact very simple!
Tabbing problems in Firefox in Mac OS X
The solution I found to the problem was somewhat unexpected. How to address this is that the end user have to turn on Full keyboard access > All controls in System Preferences for it to work as expected. Like this:
1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to Keyboard & Mouse
3. Select All controls for Full keyboard access
Alternatively you can add / change the accessibility.tabfocus Firefox option via about:config to one of the following:
3 to be able to tab to form controls or 7 to be able to tab to everything
