Mar 31, 2008

Livingston Hills's website redone

I just lunched updated version of the website for Livingston Hills. It is static HTML site, no any DB backend. I am pretty happy how the design turned up. The challenge of the site was having running background audio. I decided to use a Flash to do the audio. Then on each click audio started all over - pretty annoying. So I used mootools and Ajax calls to load just content portion of the page into given div tag. I very happy how all works nice and smooth...
http://livingstonhills.com

Mar 29, 2008

Mac remote system pollution

Mac does pollute remote file systems it is mounted to by default. It spreads .DS_Store files all over them. I found a solution to prevent that.

  1. In a Mac terminal a command needs to be executed: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

  2. Additionally samba can be configured to ignore those files. For each share defined in an smb.conf this directive has to be put in: veto files = /.DS_Store/