June 2011
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Gradients plus border-radius in IE9
CSS3 is magical like unicorns. I would say the horn of the unicorn is its ability to be replicated by some of the filters in IE. The horn is majestic, but painful when applied to sensitive areas. Filters in IE give us a way to replicate some of the power of css3 without javascript and without images. However, filters come with their own problems. The most common problem is probably the...
December 2010
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Flash + IE = *&^*
So my colleague @blahed said I should write a blog post about this problem I had. I said it would be short post and it would go something like this….”Don’t use Flash”. But I guess I’ll expound.
Let’s put it this way. Flash is like your fist. And IE is like the rusty nail that gives you tetanus and makes you die. Working with one is bad…working...
July 2010
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password123
As you know, I recently went a little berserk with iPhone-style password fields. I was thoroughly invigorated by the challenge of this seemingly simple idea. I wanted to write a plugin that would conquer and destroy the inadequate dPassword plugin from decaf (see link in previous posts)…mission accomplished my friends. *applause and bashing of heads*
Some fixes and differences from...
April 2010
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Devchatt - Frank and Die Neue Javascript
Devchatt is quickly becoming old news, but I wanted to go ahead and post these two presentations because I need a reliable place for refreshers. Frank by Travis Dunn and Die Neue Javascript by Noah Burney were two of my favorite presentations.
Side note: My other favorites were about incremental development by James Long (jlongster.com) and an introduction to Haskell by James Sanders, but I...
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Easter Fun
In the terminal: type emacs, enter, esc, X, then type snake or tetris, enter. Two games you never knew you had!
March 2010
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devchatt cometh, pre-devchatt goith, i write...
I can think of no better way to start off the this blog than to talk about devchatt presentations. First, if you don’t already know, DevChatt is a free developers conference in Chattanooga, TN. pre-devchatt was today and was a taste of things to come. We had Chris Mills from Opera come and talk to us about HTML5 and CSS3. His project list and titles are vast, but he is involved in web...
