Archive for the tag 'css'

Sep 22 2008

Using YUI compressor in a web project

Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).

After the initial learning curve, this has all been going…

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May 03 2008

Signs that you’re incorrigibly nerdy

  1. Reading an 8-year thread of responses to a longstanding Gecko bug makes for interesting reading.
  2. You can list at least four different ways to create italicized text on a web page, as well as the semantic importance of each
  3. You laugh at…

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Mar 11 2008

Wordpress Post Classes plugin v0.1

This plugin has been superseded by the much-improved Semantic Classes plugin

I’ve written a small Wordpress plugin that provides some new template tags that return a post’s tags, categories, author, and date; useful for CSS trickery.

You can view its page here.

This…

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Dec 19 2007

Look! A flying pig!

IE8 (still in development) passes the ACID2 test. I’ll be damned.

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Dec 08 2007

Various and sundry technology stuff pertaining to work

I don’t usually talk about work on this blog, simply because I’ve read enough horror stories about blogging work matters to know how badly it ends. Granted, if I were to blog about my job, it would mostly consist of…

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Sep 18 2007

Using jQuery to extract blockquote metadata

5 Nov. 2007 • I’ve formatted this code as a plugin, too. Go to the project page.

Blockquotes, by definition, can and should in most cases have a title attribute and, if possible, a cite attribute. The former is the actually name of…

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Dec 29 2006

In retrospect, this is pretty pathetic

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From Rusty comes a meme in which one takes the first sentence from the first post of every month in the outgoing year. Sort of makes my archives look pathetic.

January
Happy new year, everybody.
February
Get it while it’s hot.
March
Because I just can’t get…

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Oct 23 2006

Do they give merit badges for prostituting yourself to a media conglomerate?

Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music. [...]

The movie industry has developed the curriculum.

“Working with the Boy Scouts of Los…

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Oct 03 2006

Tubgirl’d

MySpace denizens have a long history of stealing pictures from other peoples’ websites.

The last time an image of mine was stolen, I was nice about it. Rusty wasn’t (if you’re reading this, Rusty, your screenshot is a 404 error).

Well, after…

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