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 standards in the world of CSS. Yes, that previous statement does sound pretty geeky, to [...]

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• Tags: CSS-based layout, CSS2, CSS2.1, CSS3, disease, falling behind, IE6, standards

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, a nifty technique, using CSS sprites, was implemented for displaying the current date of a particular blog [...]

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• Tags: CSS sprite, date, dynamic positioning, WordPress

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 check my work email while on vacation?
There are two schools of thought on this issue. One [...]

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• Tags: checking email, Quest for the Empty Inbox, vacation

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 pasting the embed code from YouTube into a <div> element that I had designated as being the [...]

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• Tags: API, jQuery Tools, swfobject, YouTube, YouTube JavaScript Player

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 ASP.NET. However, Yahoo! Pipes soon came onto the scene and really changed the way data [...]

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• Tags: mashup, social, Yahoo!, YDN, YQL