marknormanfrancis.com is the weblog of Mark Norman Francis, a professional web developer from London, England.

  • When optimising CSS makes a real difference

    March 28, 2010 00:36

    Given that I've said optimising CSS is slow and dangerous, why bother with it at all?

  • Why optimising CSS is dangerous

    March 27, 2010 22:20

    An automated tool altering the structure and source order of your CSS should fill you with The Fear™. Here's why.

  • Even suboptimal CSS optimising is still too slow

    March 19, 2010 00:28

    Well, it is when you've got fourteen thousand properties to sort through

  • Suboptimal CSS optimising

    March 14, 2010 11:43

    When optimising CSS, there is the right way and then there's the correct way.

  • Growl notifications for system updates

    February 27, 2010 02:24

    I wrote a little shell script wrapper around softwareupdate which pops up a Growl notification when there are new updates available for your computer.

  • Removing the deprecated warnings from EC2 tools on Snow Leopard

    October 16, 2009 13:48

  • Fairly paranoid backups

    October 12, 2009 21:34

    I like to have my data backed up. I don't like people touching it.

  • Cleaning up after Byline

    August 30, 2009 22:21

    A script to perform actions on flagged items in Google Reader.

  • On Brevity

    July 31, 2009 18:12

    "Less is more", but terse is worse

  • My Big Fat Geek Wedding

    September 21, 2008 21:46

    Some details on the geeky references contained within my wedding to Sarah-Jane.

  • I broke my elbow

    August 02, 2008 20:20

    This one time, at Pub Standards...

  • The Highland Fling

    April 04, 2007 14:47

    Talking about Yahoo!'s graded browser support and progressive enhancement.

  • A day in the life

    February 04, 2007 02:23

    Random photos taken every ten minutes throughout the day.

  • Microformats

    October 22, 2006 08:36

    Presenting a talk on microformats to the WSG London

  • Going away

    September 21, 2006 06:50

    An Applescript for setting my away status.

  • Drew McLellan joins Yahoo! Europe

    August 05, 2006 14:59

  • Presenting microformats

    July 23, 2006 01:56

    I gave a quick talk on microformats at Yahoo!.

  • The face of addiction

    July 08, 2006 10:47

    A quick review of iConquer, the latest timesink in my life.

  • Nokia N80 review

    July 04, 2006 02:20

  • Attending @media 2006

    June 27, 2006 13:48

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