November 2010
6 posts
In Defense of Vendor-Specific CSS Prefixes
Sitepoint.com has been asking recently, “Should CSS vendor prefixes be abolished?” The poll has been running on their front page for the past few days and as of the writing of this post 51% of respondents have said “Yes” versus 22% “No”.
I’m kind of surprised actually. Likely the majority of respondents are web developers who would rather have the...
Converting PNG Images into HTML
A while back I wrote a short python script to take any PNG image file and convert it into pure HTML. Yes, pure HTML.
This actually started as an office joke with the query of how do we put the company logo into emails for people who don’t have images enabled. It was a natural downward progression of jokes that eventually lead to converting the image into HTML. Aaaaaand as any dynamic...
Non-Intrusive Javascript Hovers by Convention
As I’ve been learning Rails lately, the value of convention-over-configuration has been becoming more apparent to me. Here’s a quick example of how you can use this principle to speed up common tasks in web development.
For demonstration, let’s use a really common task: Making mouse over hover effects. I’ll be using jQuery but you can use the JS framework of your...
Why Writing a Webapp Reminds me of Playing a RPG
I’m sure you’ve played an RPG of some sort… Diablo, Torchlight, Titan’s Quest, City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Aion, Eve Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Age of Conan, etc. These all invariably involve the same pattern of gameplay.
You design a character — it’s gender, appearance, skin tone, and of course role/class. You enter the...
Blekko & Google: A Quick Study in Color Contrast
Blekko recently launched with much fanfare. There hasn’t been much change in the search engine world recently so I imagine a flood of early adopters will give them a steady flow of traffic for sometime. Being a techy and web developer myself I of course wanted to hop on the bandwagon early on.
However within just the first day I began to feel like Blekko was “harder” to use....
Is the Golden Age of Django Over? [Opinion]
To me Django was revolutionary. Sure there were many more frameworks who came before it, but for those of us who didn’t care for the scaffolding-command-line-driven style Ruby On Rails offered, Django was a breath of fresh air to the otherwise tedious task of web development. Django had so much going for it…
Tons of features
Built on python
A positive and helpful community
Good...
