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Dec, 2010

Top 10 Web Development Faux Pas

We have all been there… just starting out and don’t know any better or trying to get a quick hack in to fix a site that just went live…. these are situations that many of us have faced and done the unthinkable, we commit a web development faux pa. It’s scarily more common than not so hopefully this article will help bring salvation to all those web sinners out there. Without further ado I present the Top 10 Web Development Faux Pas to avoid while building or maintaining websites.

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Sep, 2010

My First Approved Script on CodeCanyon.net

So a few months ago, the Envato network put out a call to all HTML5 developers to help them fill out their new HTML5 category on CodeCanyon.net. I decided to convert one of my existing drop down menu scripts to an HTML5 powerhouse that used some new entities and CSS3 properties.

After one simple revision my HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript drop menu system was approved for sale. Check it out here!

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Jul, 2010

Why Validation Is Important,… After All

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

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.

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Apr, 2010

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

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

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.

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Feb, 2010

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

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.