HTML and CSS Validation has been the center of an intense debate for years; some web developers believe that validation is pointless since many of the specs change on various DOCTYPE’s and DTD’s, while others believe that your website is not truly valid and accessible unless you are in 100% compliance with whatever DOCTYPE you use. I will not begin to pretend that I can fairly and accurately mitigate both sides of this argument, what I want to do is take a look at it from a different perspective.
May, 2010
09
Setting an ‘Active’ Class for Dynamic Navigations in WordPress
I recently got a project that required a really dynamic navigation. The client wanted the ability to add and remove pages at will with no interaction from a developer. This is generally a pretty simple request, but the client has a very specific set of style guidelines. Here is a php function that I wrote to do the job.
Apr, 2010
29
Self Clearing Input Fields With Javascript and Prototype
I wrote this little script to just create some self clearing input fields. Its pretty simple but it does the job.
Apr, 2010
20
Last Tweet – A PHP Twitter Class
Sometimes doing something simple should be just that, simple. Thanks to Twitters excellent restful API, I am easily able to grab my last tweet plus some bonus data about my account and display it on my website. So Here it is, simple and clean.
Mar, 2010
30
LSCOLORS in OSX Snow Leopard, For Dummies
So after cruising the web for a few hours trying to find ‘dummy’ style documentation on changing colors in terminal using .bashrc, I finally stumbled across a site that got me half way there. After playing around a bit I found a few little tricks and things that no one really likes to share. So here it is.
Feb, 2010
24
Unboxing the Apple Magic Mouse
So a few days ago my mighty mouse decided to crap out. I did my best to take it apart and clean it, but we all know that once you take apart a ‘glued together’ piece of electronics things are rarely ever the same again. So, seeing as I needed a new mouse and had an extra $70 burning a hole in my pocket, I decided to dive in and get myself a new Magic Mouse.
Feb, 2010
24
Retubing the Marshall Part – 2
The quest for my perfect guitar tone continues…
After a few weeks of playing with the settings, re-biasing, and changing out tubes I finally decided that I just didn’t like the power tubes, and that they were likely the source of my problems with tone. So I called up my friends at thetubestore.com and had them ship me a set of EL34B’s.
Feb, 2010
02
Date Squashing with PHP and CodeIgniter
I was working on a little attendance tracking system today and I used PHP and some native CodeIgniter functions to get it to play nice with my APP. I’m using one of my favorite new scripts CalendarView to pass the dates into this function from a simple form post.
Jan, 2010
29
How to detect and avoid browsers with Javascript
I am going to go ahead a regurgitate what everyone has been saying for years now, that IE6 is just well past its prime and its time to retire it. This has been beaten death time and time again, so I am not going to list all the reasons why we should drop it, I am just going to tell you how to make sure that users with IE6 are properly handled on your site.
Jan, 2010
29
Retubing the Marshall (probably belongs on my studio blog)
KaPLOW! There goes the power tubes… so I decided to take some time and really invest in the overall sound of my Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 by retubing and rebiasing the beast. I had some great friends in the studio recording a few months ago. The guitar player Andy had a hot rodded jcm900 and I was really digging on the sound. I picked his brain and got some great insight into tubes and amp circuits, feeling brave I decided to jump head first into hot rodding my head (that doesn’t sound right).
