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 swimmingly. I merged my first development branch into the trunk yesterday, and this branch [...]
Reading an 8-year thread of responses to a longstanding Gecko bug makes for interesting reading. You can list at least four different ways to create italicized text on a web page, as well as the semantic importance of each You laugh at the joke about the pluperfect subjunctive scrod. You like xkcd; even worse: you [...]
This plugin has been superseded by the much-improved Semantic Classes plugin I’ve written a small WordPress plugin that provides some new template tags that return a post’s tags, categories,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 initial release provides the following items: <?php generate_tag_class(); ?> This function returns [...]
IE8 (still in development) passes the ACID2 test. I’ll be damned.
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 technology bits, but it’s still one of those grey areas I avoid out of propriety. [...]
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 the quote’s source. The latter is the URI to the quotes location, [...]
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