Monday, October 28, 2013

Green Salsa

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FOUR INGREDIENTS Tomatillos, Serrano Peppers, Onions, and Garlic. The only rule: Every single vegetable must be roasted or grilled. Comb...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Data Security in Cloud Computing

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Christian Science Monitor article discusses the impact of the government surveillance programs on the American cloud computing industry. ...
Saturday, July 06, 2013

A Little Trip

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Sailing 21' boats, single handed from LA to Hawaii for the 650 Mini Pacific Challenge. 😬 On some days, as soon as you clear the bre...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Elusive Beauty

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Chasing Aphrodite documents the story of looted ancient artifacts that found their way to the Getty and the tenure of curator Marion True ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Popular Programming Languages

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A visualization for the most popular programming languages of 2012 on CodeEval .
Sunday, January 06, 2013

Yogurt & Cream Biscuit

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This is a different take on a recipe I posted a while back. 2 cups Flour 2.5 tsp Baking Powder 2 T Sugar Few pinches of salt 4 T Butt...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Replacing CSS List Bullets with Images Using Sprites

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To create a CSS list like this one, include the styles for numberedlist class and write your markup as shown in the blue box. You can swit...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

CSS Image Grid by Floating Different Sized Elements

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Ansel Adams Wilderness © Copyright by Steve Dunleavy | Creative Commons Share-Alike License 2.0 The picture shows a mountain r...
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Saturday, December 08, 2012

Converting Microsoft Word Docs to XML and Processing with PHP's SimpleXML

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In this post, I'll describe how to do automated processing on a set of Microsoft Word documents. The task is to compare an old version...
Friday, October 19, 2012

A Simple CSS Blockquote Class

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Painted in 1865 for an exhibition where it was rejected by the jury, Bread and Eggs is a still life by Paul Cezanne. Cezanne i...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

9-Slice Scaling

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The CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders spec defines a new property called border-image. This is a powerful new way to draw borders of an element...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Visual Depth: CSS Box Shadow Property

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I added a thin line of shadow to two divs in my footer using the CSS box-shadow property which takes 6 parameters, h-shadow, v-shadow, blu...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Poor Man's Whiteboard

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Or, poor woman's board in my case. I think I actually prefer it to a dry erase board because of the way I can move the Post-it notes a...

CSS Image Grids

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CSS Image Grids Grid Using Sprites Grid Using CSS Floats Building Grids: Size and Crop an Image Using CSS Grid by Floating Different Siz...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

CSS Frameworks

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CSS FRAMEWORKS 960 Grid System Blueprint YUI Grids The individual 960 Grid and Blueprint bitmaps that appear in the icon compositions (...
Friday, June 22, 2012

960 Grid System: A CSS Framework

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After working with Blueprint last week, I want to generate the same layouts using the 960 Grid System, which is a CSS framework based on a...
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Monday, June 18, 2012

Using Blueprint CSS Framework

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You can use the Bluprint CSS framework to easily create complex multi-column layouts. Some people are against using CSS frameworks because...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Embedding JWPlayer in Your Web Page

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jwplayer - Alternate content Using a popular media player called JW Player , I'm going to show you how to change your markup to embed ...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Configuring Filezilla to Access SFTP Servers

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ileZilla is an open source FTP/SFTP client that lets you drag and drop files between your local machine and your server. I'm going to...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Setting Name Servers for Your Domains

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After you get a new domain name, you need to tell DNS how to resolve that name into an IP address for your Web server. DNS requests are init...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Fonts for the Web: Typekit by Adobe

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Typekit Adobe provides online fonts for websites.  You can sign up for different plans here .  Here are the steps for using the service: ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Using Notepad++ to Edit Files on the Server over SFTP

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For quick tasks and transfers, FileZilla , an SFTP client, is great but manually uploading local files to the server via standalone FTP/SFT...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Changing File Associations in Windows

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Microsoft Word's been after me, popping up every time I click on a text file. Thinking I’ll be on WordPad, I am taken to the trial ver...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

jQuery and jQuery UI

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jQuery is a Javascript library that allows you to easily manipulate - compared to writing your own raw Javascript - your HTML document, ha...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

A Simple Plan

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"An attempt to rob a jewelry store failed dramatically when the shop owner shot one of the intruders. The men fled the store and jum...
Sunday, March 04, 2012

Testing in IE7/IE8 using IE Compatibility Mode

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Microsoft has never supported installing multiple versions of IE on a single PC. (They do provide some virtual machine images for running ...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

A Computer Holga? $35 Raspberry Pi

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Tiny but powerful $35 Raspberry Pi computer causes big stir on launch day. Image Credit: Schematic by Raspberry Pi
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Writing a Generic CSS Blockquote Class

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People do odd things in an emergency and we all have stories of ludicrous situations in an emergency which we laugh afterwards, if we are s...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Blogger Adjustments Using CSS

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Another post working on Blogger software. I host my own images and have my own domain but my blog is on Blogger so any time I update the l...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Blogger Avatar Sitting on Top of Sidebar

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I was reading comments on the blog recently when I noticed the avatar images sitting on top of my left sidebar. If I pushed the #comment...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

CSS3 3D Transform Example

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Above you see an image of a 3D box made from a single div element, and rendered in Chrome using CSS3 3D Transforms. On one side of the bo...
Thursday, January 05, 2012

King's Crown to be Made of Chrome?

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6% 25% 27% 35% Safari Firefox Chrome IE 100 75 50 25 0 Browser Market Share ©2012 bar graphs by cssbakery.com Could Google C...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Microsoft Security Essentials

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I had a Coast Guard instructor once, a gruff but lovable Captain Haddock type with a penchant for donuts, who used to tell us that anybody...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Styling Blogger Differently for Single Post vs. Multiple Posts

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If you are a Blogger user, you may find this useful. I had a situation where I wanted to style something differently for the individual p...
Monday, December 26, 2011

CSS Diagonal Menu with Sprites

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Below I decided to do another text wrapping experiment - similar to the "stair steps" in the previous post - where I'll have...
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