The non-importance of !important

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Molly Holzschlag raised a good issue via Twitter yesterday regarding the !important rules in CSS, reprinted here in more or less the order in which her tweets appeared thus far: TwitterPoll: What does this mean to you? != TwitterPoll follow-up. What does this mean to you? !=good TwitterPoll: Let's remove the equal sign. ...

iPhone and mouse events

Friday, August 1st, 2008

PPK has written his impressions regarding his shiny brand-new Jesusphone. (I wonder did he get black or white?) In his post, he tells us the initial reports for the behavior of mobile Safari with regards to things like documentation (missing), mouse event implications (game changing), and how the disjunct state ...

Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

There has always been somewhat of a dichotomy in the world of web professionals between design & development. Designers do their thing making pretty pictures, drinking cocktails at lunch, having social cliques, and little romances within the group. They frolic away in the meadows of Photoshop and Dreamweaver Design View, paying ...

Browser Joy

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Downloaded Firefox Three Point Oh this evening and I must say I'm impressed. Last check was a few beta revisions ago, and this is much improved in the one area I am most concerned with: stability. I have been running it all evening and she's been perfectly stable so far. PPK ...

Rails Tip No.1: Making datetime_select more appointment-friendly

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This is the first of what I intend to have as an ongoing list of Ruby on Rails programming tips. These are as much for plugging my own memory holes as they are for the general Googlejuice. Each should be a brief illustration of some technique on how to accomplish ...