Monthly Archives: July 2009

The “Web” disease of falling behind

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Mike

The thought occurred to me this morning, as I did my daily routine of reading through my long list of RSS feeds, that I was in danger of falling behind and becoming out of touch with the current trends and … Continue reading →

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Date Display Technique using CSS Sprites

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Mike

This is a follow-up to an article published today by Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks. If you haven’t read the article already, I encourage you to do so first before implementing my proposed tweaks in the following post. To recap, … Continue reading →

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To check, or not to check?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Mike

I’m on vacation this week – great opportunity to relax and rewind from the stress and grind of life. However, the age old (?) question that pops up while one is on vacation needs to be dealt with: Do I … Continue reading →

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Stopping a YouTube video after closing the overlay it’s in with jQuery Tools

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Mike

Now there’s a long-winded title for you! Yes, I’m having problems (IE-specific) when closing an overlay that contains a YouTube video – the movie just keeps on playing in the “background”. My current setup was pretty simple – basically just … Continue reading →

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Getting social with Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Mike

Remember the ‘good’ old days when doing a simple RSS mashup was tedious, to say the least? For one, most front-end developers were unable to accomplish this since it required some fairly advanced knowledge of server-side languages like PHP or … Continue reading →

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