August 2006
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Trigger happy
Yeah well, not quite. Let me elaborate. If you've been following my "Currently Reading" section, you might have noticed that I like to read books involving web and programming in general. Most of the books I've bought turned out to be very good, and I tend to write short and concise reviews for them (well not all of them, so don't snap any quick judgements about the books I didn't write reviews). But something always bugs me when I'm just about to place an order. Will this book be what I...
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Book Review: Essential PHP Security
We've all written unsecure code. Then tried to circumvent our weak security measures. It made us better programmers, and made us sleep better knowing our applications were safe. But there is just so far your imagination can go, while thinking up ways to get inside your perfectly secure system. 8 chapters. 30 exploits. Impossibly small Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett brings you those ideas in a book that looks rather, well small. We've all gotten used to those big, heavy, shelf...
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Standalone IE
As much as I dislike it, I have to test my sites in older version of IE. There are still a number of users that use decade versions of this bug plagued browser, although their number is diminishing daily. But nevertheless, to shut out any user is just plain wrong. Even if they are using IE 5.01. But how to get your hands on some of those browsers. You could install older versions of Windows and keep your fingers crossed your computer will not catch anything. Well while I was browsing for...
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Javascript gallery
The very word Javascript has long been associated with those pesky pop-ups, pop-unders and what-not. Developers used it to do just about every anoying thing you could possibly imagine. Well, with the recent resurgance of the DOM, Javascript is gaining serious ground and is being used for what it was intended in the first place. Behaviour. That is why when I was recently confronted with the idea of creating a slideshow gallery, I jumped at the chance of using Javascript & DOM. The plan...
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Book Review: CSS Mastery
You might have noticed that I keep a farely up to date list of what I'm currently reading, and as you might have guessed, I like to read quite a bit. That is why this might become a constant section on this page. OK enought chatter, lets get down to business. CSS Mastery, written by Andy Budd of Clearleft fame, is by far one of the best CSS books I've recently had the pleasure of reading. Written for the bit more savvy web developers, wich means the author does not beat about the bush and...
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Fluid length rounded corner buttons
We've all come accross a design that dictated that the form buttons should have rounded corners (especially in the web 2.0 era). The creation of fixed length rounded corner button is second nature to any self proclaimed web deveopler, but the creation of fluid (well at least fluid inlength if not in height) rounded corners is another thing all together, and that is what I'll be talking about in this entrie. To create our illusion of fluid length rounded button I've prepared two images that...
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IE6 Multi-Class Bug
I've got a doosey to report. I recently stumbled accross an interesting and not very well documented IE bug. First let me show you the XHTML and CSS so you can be as stomped as I was. Say you have an icon that has its background changed depending on the site you are on. Say you put it inside an emptly div for some reason or another. The code would look something like this:
... <div id="icon" class="notice"></div> ...
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@media podcasts
Things didn't work out as I thought. @media slipped through my fingertips, exams came in the way of my trip and decided to give it a miss and focus on my studies as it was scheduled right in the middle of my semester exams. Shame. But the folks at Vivabit kept their promise and have been releasing a podcast of the sessions each week for a while now. Here is a list of current session podcast availible from the @media News & Discussion section: Eric Meyer: “A Decade of...
