Regardless of which financial blogger or author you follow, it is generally agreed that keeping tabs on your credit report is sound advice. By federal law, you are entitled to a free credit report from each of the 3 primary credit reporting agencies every 12 months. (See annualcreditreport.com and avoid all the credit report scams) [...]
Tags: finance
I can’t honestly call this a recap or an overview because there is just too much good stuff to do CodeMash proper justice. And I clearly waited too long to do a ‘best of’ or ‘highlights’ post. However, after attempting to give a recap of CodeMash to my fellow CSGers, I had a list of [...]
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Need an awesome solution for printing to PDF? Have multiple home machines and prefer a network solution? Read on! My setup involves PDFCreator installed in server mode on my Windows Home Server box. The printer is shared so other machines on the network can print to it. PDFCreator saves the PDF on the server under [...]
Tags: home networking, whs
On a recent project, I traveled to the depths of hell and came out alive. Here’s how it went down… The initial task wasn’t all that unique or difficult. We were to add a few videos (most hosted on YouTube, with a couple self-hosted) that would open in a lightbox-style popup when the thumbnails were [...]
Tags: flash, ie6, javascript, mootools, multibox
How many times have you used float:left to make a bunch of elements align horizontally? Usually this technique is used on lists (of both the ul and ol persuasion) and generally works just fine under a few preconditions. The first precondition is that you are comfortable using some form of a clear-fix hack. Either you [...]
Tags: css, inline-block, layout
Imagine if you will, a page with a significant amount of dynamic page elements. For instance, a slide-out panel containing a number of ‘panes’ containing topical information on various ‘factors’. Let’s assume that once this slide-out is open, we wish the user to be able to jump from factor to factor (similar to a slideshow) [...]
Tags: google-analytics, html5, javascript, jquery, mootools
The Introduction I’m a big fan of OpenID. I like the fact that my online (public) identity is associated with a URL that I own. This affords quite a few benefits, such as associating my public profile at various networks with one another. Even better, OpenID supports the delegation of identifiers to OpenID Providers. This [...]
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@ikeif recently tweeted a request for some JavaScript best practices. Rather than simply reply to him, I thought I’d post them here and beat him to the blog-post-punch. I’m not going to expand much on any of these, although any discussion that arises will likely spawn its own post. These are in no particular order [...]
Tags: javascript
Why start with a blank slate? After years of web development and hundreds of sites, starting from scratch on each project really turns into a buzz kill. Nobody wants to spend time rehashing the same issues from site to site. So many of us have turned to CSS Resets. As we all know, CSS Resets [...]
Tags: css
I was recently on a project that called for a translucent background color over a an image similar to this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/ / CC BY 2.0 Of course, being the conscientious web developers we are, we want to be as semantic as possible with our markup. This means that text should be marked up as text [...]
