otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

During a recent project I’ve been experimenting a bit with CSS tables.
I’ve come across a strange behavior in Safari, which I’m pretty sure is a bug. When an element’s display is set to “table,” it appears that Safari calculates with width of the box by subtracting the border width. When an element is set [...]

Earlier this week, the venue for WordCamp UK 2009 decided. This year we’ll be meeting in Cardiff. More details are available on the WordCamp UK website.
The choice of Cardiff was mostly due to an excellent venue proposal submitted by Hayley Niuserre.
WordCamp is a semi-informal meetup of WordPress users, where they get the [...]

As anyone who follows me on twitter probably knows, it snowed in London today. I didn’t go into work, but managed to get some work done from home.
Nevertheless, Joanne and I managed to make a few trips into the snow. I’ve uploaded a a few photos to Flickr. Highlights include the [...]

So. A while back I asked for your advice on what to do about this blog. Thanks to everyone who responded. I know what I’m going to do, but I’m not done yet. So you’ll have to suffer with the old school blog for a while, but look out for a new, [...]

When I started this blog, I made the decision that this would be a personal blog. At the time I was freelance and was thinking of launching a professional blog, which I still haven’t officially started.
I’m considering making some geeky posts — stuff about the events I’m going to and some technical posts — [...]