A Little Background… Of all the tools in my Web Developer’s Toolkit™, perhaps the most used, and the most useful, is a trick called the CSS Sprite. It’s an “advanced” technique that is actually deceptively simple, and leads to fantastic advantages in loading times of web pages. First, a quick primer. A “sprite” doesn’t refer [...]
Browsing Coding
iOSSecret
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Abusing t.co for Fun and Profit
Ah, yes. t.co. That amazingly tiny url shortening service created by Twitter when they decided that they wanted to alienate and abandon all the 3rd party developers who helped make them into the powerhouse social networking service that they are today. Using t.co has big advantages on Twitter, too: the original link is shown when [...]
(Mis)adventures with AppleScript
Since I switched to the Mac, there’s one thing I’ve constantly avoided: AppleScript. While I’ve used programs that support it, and used scripts in the past, I’ve never found a reason to roll up my sleeves and dig into the code. Here are a couple of reasons for my aversion to AppleScript. Syntax is overly [...]
Widgets Ahoy!
Whoa. Where’d that come from? Christmas break has given me some free time to post some fairly significant site updates, most noticeably some new widgets for the sidebar on the left! Now you can keep track of me on XBox Live and Steam game services, and see how I’ve chosen to spend my free time [...]
Ooh, Colourful!
Take a look at the big green-ish box above this post. I’m lazy and I haven’t uploaded a featured image. Instead, this custom wordpress theme generates a random colour based on the title of the post, and assigns 1 of 4 possible overlay patterns (in this case, pixellated question marks). How did I accomplish this, [...]
.NET MVC First Impressions
Today I had a rare opportunity. An old, terribly designed classic ASP site was falling apart, and it was our job to re-build it. No pressing deadline, so it’s something we can plan, research, and, most importantly we can have some fun with. The client has a Windows-based server, under tight security regulations. Because of [...]