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While thinking about my career, it’s important to reflect on my current skills and interests to gain visibility into where I want to go. Progress I’m super comfortable with CSS and layout. I’ve made a lot of progress this year. Box model, margin vs padding, absolute vs relative positioning, overflow and scrolling, :hover and other pseudo-elements, line …
50 performance tricks to make your HTML5 apps and sites faster Good to think about conditional js libraries.
Hey, just a little DID YOU KNOW? Hotels can charge a mandatory resort fee above the current online display price. This is very common in Las Vegas where heavily ‘discounted’ hotel rooms are offset by the large fees. EG: $60/night room + $20/night resort fee. Currently the FTC is cracking down on OTA’s (Online Travel …
I really like the 960gs, but I want to make an adaptive site. So I’ve been on the hunt for a css framework that includes 2 things: a set of media queries, a set of grid classes. It’s been frustrating since many of the frameworks seems to have one but not the other. Read on for my process…
Mom gave me a set of Sifteo cubes for my birthday. I took them out for a trial run that weekend, but haven’t sat down with them to develop until today. (Potentially) awesome gift? Here’s the lowdown: For about $150, you get 3 cubes, a charging/storage box, and a wifi adapter usb dongle. To play …
I recently had to alter some Scene7 output – and I’m very dismayed by the lack of documentation! I don’t have access to the template builder but had to provide specs- very very hard process. Finally figured it out, but rendering mode = sharp
My Toshiba has problems. That said, every now and then it can’t find it’s own DVD drive. No power no detection, nothing. I’m suspecting iTunes is the culprit but who knows. In any case I found out that there’s a simple solution posted around the web but I found it in a forum here. Steps …
I’m at work needing to transfer files from my Mac to my NTFS hard drive. The file system normally allows the drive to be read but unable to write to. There’s too many complicated tutorials/forum posts so I’m making it simple for myself and hopefully others here. 2 downloads and no funky terminal stuff. Download …
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So I’ve been on the lookout for a good (and cheap) method of capturing video of my computer screen for displaying websites offline etc. After doing some research and trying out a few pieces of software, I found CamStudio to be sufficient for my needs. It creates .avi files that can easily be imported into …
This will copy all of the bookmarks, emails, email filters, settings, etc. for Firefox and Thunderbird. Locate, copy and overwrite the application folders for Firefox and Thunderbird: Mac: [user home] /library/Thunderbird [user home]/library/Application Support/Firefox PC: [user home ] /AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird [ user home] /AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox Note: For PC, AppData folder is a hidden or system folder so it will be hidden …
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