Blog posts by Marius Slette Johansen

Why the Internet does not kill music

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:23:08 GMT

The record industry is constantly complaining, suing and threatening that the Internet is killing music with it’s low cost modernistic ways of distributing media. Bu-huu. But I came across this very interesting interview with Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) where he says: “It’s the music,” said Grohl on the sales slump. “People are blown away [...]

Living without Flash

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:58:17 GMT

The recent weeks and months have included a stream of updates to my Flash players on various devices. It almost seems that every time I fire up a computer I need to update Flash (and Air), and it is starting to annoy me. And then I started to think about what Flash is needed for, [...]

Indent CSS for readability

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:11:49 GMT

Reading CSS can be a hassle some times, and when you are a developer used to writing code that has indenting as a true and tried method of readability this should also apply to all other forms of text that has a hierarchical form, like CSS. The CSS example below is easy enough to read, [...]

Why a project is like a Rubik’s Cube

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:30:53 GMT

I had a thought at lunch today; A project is like a Rubik’s Cube. A project is defined as “a time limited one off task” (read more here), where someone wants something smart done, at this cost in this time span. Most likely it’s supposed to be done very fast at very little cost. Managing [...]

Why would you tell me, by script, that You suck?

Wed, 25 May 2011 11:53:17 GMT

I recently visited an old favorite MTB company called Haro Bikes. After the initial selection process of wether I would like to look at this or that (splash screen), I opted for the MTB/Asphalt web site. And then I got a javascript popup from the site telling me that I am using an unsupported browser [...]

Reactivation in 3, 2, …

Mon, 16 May 2011 11:06:34 GMT

I think it would be smart to reactivate this blog. So I will start thinking about doing that. But first it is our national day here in Norway!