Archive for August, 2007

"Regrets" series of films

Shiny ideas always catch the eye. I really got inspired by the “Regrets” series of films by Steve Delahoyde, the hobbies one really caught my attention, I ended up watching the rest and kept wanting more. The way it was filmed and the mood really sucked me in. The seriousness of the actors really portray [...]

Posted on August 30, 2007 at 6:26 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Refresh OS X Finder

The Apple products and community never cease to amaze me. When there is a problem to solve more than likely someone has already created an elegant solution. An experience I had today reinforced my findings ten fold. I have a few shares on a network drive that I connect from OS X via Samba. Files [...]

Posted on August 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Motivation during tough times

Staying motivated while the going is touch is a pretty daunting task, especially if the big picture is just out sight. Weather it is for a short period of time or half the year everyone hits a hard point in their life. The key is to not think of yourself as being singled out, things [...]

Posted on August 24, 2007 at 7:01 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Flexable, Eatable CSS Forms..

The web is filled with forms and the more social sites get the more forms required. At Wayne State we end up creating a lot of forms for a lot of purposes. I am going to take for for example and show how we have come up with a fully flexible html form and how [...]

Posted on August 20, 2007 at 4:29 pm by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Popular sites and their lack of validation

Launching a new site got me exploring some new code bases and I became disappointed with the disregard large social sites have for html validation of snippets they disburse to their user community. Since I wanted my site plain and simple to start instead of writing a bunch of code to use common API’s I [...]

Posted on August 19, 2007 at 11:07 am by nickdenardis · Permalink · Leave a comment
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