I love solar-power! The Voltaic Backpack is an amazing piece of work. Not only is it solar-powered, but the bag itself is manufactured from 100% recycled PET products (like plastic bottles). I had been hankering to purchase one for quite the while, but the $200 pricetag always dissuaded me. Fortunately, right now Rad-Tech has a [...]
I’m always eager for debug tools in different browsers so that I can troubleshoot browser-unique rendering CSS and JavaScript issues. I am yet to uncover a decent Safari Web Dev toolbar. A simple option, however, is the Debug menu. The Debug menu features User Agent spoofing, JavaScript console (not quite as good as Firefox’s), and [...]
If you’ve been under a rock and haven’t heard, Ratatouille is Pixar’s newest flick. The past few films from Pixar (The Incredibles, Cars) appeared positively banal and to this day I have not viewed them. Ratatouille features an innovative storyline – a rodent chef working on the sly in a Parisian restaurant, only in cahoots [...]
An Event Apart is coming to a town near you! It’s two days of web standards and best practices. Jeremy Keith is speaking at Chicago’s event. Jeremy Keith rocks – I have learned more about JavaScript and AJAX from Jeremy Keith’s books than I have in all my time coding sites. Dan Cederholm is also [...]
Congratulations to Dawid Lizak for winning the CSS Off competition of June. View his winning entry. Gripes Note: A lot of these gripes are directed to my own misunderstanding of the rules of this fairly new competition. If you disagree with any of my gripes, please, leave a comment. Non-Semantic HTML There are divs named [...]
I installed Safari 3 Beta on my work Windows machine to test some sites. It was running fairly well, but one site that I hit crashed every time I hit a menu option. I did some googling, and the error code I received matched that of an application hitting a bad batch of memory. In [...]
XML is the bread and butter of the so-called Web 2.0 development movement. While writing a web service to export some data to an XML file, through a few trials I learned some best practices with XML naming conventions. Basic Naming Rules These are nothing new for most programming languages, but sometimes slight variances apply [...]
