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 [...]
The Symptoms Lost data, tearshedding, massive re-writes The Diagnosis Moronic failure to back-up your data on a regular basis. The Antidote Write your drafts in word documents so that you have a backup on your machine even after publishing an article. Additionally, or concurrently, run regular backups of your database. Why should I care? Just [...]
My brother sent You're A Standardista If... to me before I left. I had to nod and smile at a few of the items listed. My personal addition: You're a standardista if... you draw with pen and paper the various id and class selectors and elements of a page before ever laying a finger on [...]
It takes ten minutes or less.
This blog still uses WordPress version 2.0.2. 2.0.2. The current version is 2.1.2. I am a whole number behind. Here's the deal: I'm installing the latest version soon. I thought I was content with v2.0.2. However, I have been using 2.1 (not 2.1.2) on a different installation/site, and it is magnificent by leaps and bounds [...]
I almost started writing a post explaining about list-style-type. Then, I oddly discovered that Safari does not support the very list-style-type that I was highlighting: decimal-leading-zero. Upon this discovery, I wondered what other list-style-types Safari does not support. I thus happened upon quirksmode. It features beautiful charts comparing the different CSS properties, selectors, and values [...]
I was admiring the CSS for the section headings on BuzzFeed, although I do not necessarily love the content of the site (no offense, just not my thing). View it in action. The method to overlay the captions is alarmingly simple. Essentially, the image and caption are contained in a div, and corresponding classes are [...]
