News
26 March 2008 | 6 Comments
I just updated to the latest version of WordPress… Wahoo. I believe I was previously using 2.2.something. The plugin update notification is very nice. The canonical URL fix is also calming to my inner SEO self. I have to get around to updating the food blog, although I should focus on posting before upgrading.
CSS
26 March 2008 | 0 Comments
The next CSS Off contest is April 5. At one minute past midnight (12:01 am), you will have 24 hours to send your entry in. The winning entrant not only gets to feel really cool, but either receive a cash reward or a doubled cash donation to a charity. It’s fun. CSS up.
CSS
6 March 2008 | 28 Comments
If a design calls for a graphical horizontal rule, often front end developers will stick in an img tag and call it a day. However, an hr tag would be more semantic - and, most rich text editors for content management systems have a button for the horizontal rule. These styles allow cross-browser image replacement [...]
ColdFusion
3 March 2008 | 3 Comments
It's such a simple thing but I actually googled this because I couldn't think of it offhand. PLAIN TEXT CODE: <cfif len(str)> <cfoutput>#str#</cfoutput> </cfif> if str has zero characters, len(str) will return 0, mimicking behaviour of false. Cool!