IE 7 + IE Hacks = Breakage
As expected, the introduction of IE 7 will wreak havoc on those sites that utilize CSS hacks to serve up different styles to IE browsers. The IE development team is urging developers to clean up their...
View ArticleCollapsible Menus
I have implemented pureDOMexplorer (pde) in the sidebar to clean up the navigation a bit. It sits upon a foundation of accessible, XHTML-compliant unordered lists and uses unobtrusive JavaScript to...
View ArticlePhotos, Posts and the Integration Thereof
It’s about time to re-introduce a photo gallery system on this site, so I have spent a bit of time reviewing my options and have decided to give Plogger a whirl. While I have been excited about the...
View ArticleReturn of the Photo Gallery
As I mentioned earlier today, I’ve wanted to (re)install a photo gallery on this site in order to post the loads of bits and bytes spewed forth by my digital camera. Plogger seems a perfect match, and...
View ArticleFavatars, WordPress and Me
A while back, I posted about implementing Favatars on this site. While I ran into many small issues, I was relatively happy with the feature. Since my upgrade to WP 1.5, I have wanted to re-implement...
View ArticleYour Browser Size + This Site
I’ve implemented resolution-dependent layouts (first noted by The Man in Blue) to ensure that this site is tailored to fit the size of your Web browser. Let me know if you run into any problems with...
View ArticleOverheard
“…that’s why I’m safe – ’cause robots don’t have any fashion sense.” The girl behind me in line at Freebirds
View ArticleStalin's Super-Warriors
Apparently, back in the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin “ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes”. History kicks ass…
View ArticleVertical-Align Misuse
Nick Gagne has posted a great explanation of the vertical-align property which is a must read for every front-end Web developer. The examples wrap it up beautifully. Good stuff!
View ArticleMixilator
The Mixilator – The David Embury Random Cocktail Generator, provided by CocktailDB (The Internet Cocktail Database) is a great tool for those who want to mix a unique, or custom cocktail. Simply answer...
View ArticleAnimated Live Search
Animated Live Search is a great tutorial written by Steve Smith, which discusses how he has built his site-search. The cool thing is that the search presents its results immediately in a handy...
View ArticleHi-Res History
The National Archives provides an amazing resource in their new site the Charters of Freedom. High-resolution images of key U.S. historical documents have been made available to the world, including...
View ArticleFloating books
Adding a small stack of books to the invisible bookshelf hides the hardware, creating the illusion that the books are floating in place. Look ma, no hands!
View ArticleRight-click in XP on MacBook Pro
Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro – This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.
View ArticleRemote Buddy
Remote Buddy “gives you control over the rest of your [Mac] via the remote control and also improves the available functionality in those apps that already supported the remote control by themselves.”
View ArticleIt's a small world
The Size Of Our World is a great visual comparison of Earth, the other bodies in our solar system and some stars within our galaxy. While the site is far from polished, this simple page does a great...
View Article'One Small Step for a Man'
Wired News reports that “An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from [Neil] Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, ‘That’s one...
View ArticleIE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine
Microsoft has done a surprisingly cool thing – they have released a virtual machine for VirtualPC that has Windows XP pre-activated to make testing your design in IE 6 & IE 7 on the same machine...
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