There’s a saying that’s floated around at my last two jobs. It was started by my one-time boss and continued by my current one. Difficult or irritating problems are often introducted by saying this:
I have an opportunity for you…
The idea, of course, is to frame a problem in it’s rosiest light. It’s become [...]
Apple’s displays are some of the most lusted after items in all of geekdom. Very few people are probably willing to pay the premium to have them but no one denies their beauty.
Today Mike commented how he loved his busted third LCD (with water damage) that he dedicates to viewing his Apache logs [...]
Roger Johansson’s blog is on my favorite for web design. 456 Berea Street hits an informational sweet spot for me. Just enough content and information.
Anyway, Roger has decided that he needs a new tagline and is requesting his readers help out. I was going to attempt to help out until I read the [...]
I’ve half-written quite a few blog entries in the last week. I must push this logjam through to be able to write new things. Prepare for the onslaught.
KinoSearch - A Search Library for Perl I discovered KinoSearch via a post to the Plucene mailing list last week. After a few false starts it [...]
Despite Brent’s attempt to lull us into believing that NetNewsWire will erupt from the doldrums and rescue us RSS-loving-Core-Duo-wielding users I’ve been itching to play with a new aggregator. Enter endo. It’s a bit different but it allowed me to import all my feeds (something NewsFire can’t seem to grasp) so I’ll play [...]
I’ve been doing the computer thing for over 10 years now. I’ve been programming for most of them. I know a bunch of languages, technologies and other doodads.
To this day almost nothing can compete with the feeling I get from creating an efficient, elegant computer program. Well, some things can. We’ll [...]
One of the most common features on a modern site is CSS tabs for navigation. The idea is usually to have some visual indicator as to which tab you are currently viewing. The common method is to add some dynamic code that adds a class=”selected” to the tab. A more CSSy method [...]
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Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!: “You like microformats? We’ll give you some freakin’ microformats. CSS luminaries Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos introduce the boom! microformat and show you how to make book the easy way.”(Via A List Apart: for people who make websites.)
Continuing yesterday’s CSS topic, today I thought I’d post a great article on CSS selectors. This is stuff you should really read.
I’m big on web standards. I try very hard to ditch the nested tables of the 90s since divs are the new black.Today I was working on a form and decided to look for information ontableless forms. I was very disappointed. I’m all for using CSS wherever possible but I am not [...]