Saving Keystrokes with Firefox and Keywords
As a university web worker we constantly are typing in the same pattern of URL for every site. This becomes time consuming and routinely gets misspelled forcing a rapid delete key actions. I also wondered in the back of my mind about a shortcut to typing in URL’s much like IM word shortcuts but never [...]
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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 [...]
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Working with Blueprint: A CSS Framework
So I decided to change my blogging software, from no software (Blogger) to SimpleLog. I setup everything up in my dev environment and it was by far the easiest setup I have seen so far. Took about 10 minutes including setting up the virtual hosts. While getting super interested in my blog again I was [...]
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Understanding Rails Partials
Partial’s are great, i really wish there was something as straight forward in Smarty. With Smarty it would require a loop and an include, but partials roll that all into one. It great when you are displaying a list of items, especially if that list can be used in multiple pages in many contexts. With [...]
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