Virtualizing to Save the Planet

I just got an interesting IM from Jeff, one of our other developers:

Rough calculations: By using virtual servers, we are saving about 43729 kilowatt hours per year, and reducing co2 emissions by 29.5 tons per year.
And that’s just ITS.
And that’s assuming a very liberal use of desktop class hardware for low priority tasks.

We’ve been using [...]

Clickable <label>s in Safari

Today while testing the latest release of our CMS system, I noticed that Safari doesn’t actually do anything interesting with its <label> tags. Firefox and other right-thinking browsers allow one to click on a label and to activate the corresponding form element.
Fortunately, with a little Javascript-Fu, we can add this behavior for Safari as well. [...]