Monthly Archives: April 2009

Emoticons are *gulp* useful

By Ammon | April 30 2009

Hard to admit because they’re so cheesey, but emoticons are useful.  Ever want to say something pithy in an email without sounding curt? Emoticon smiley to the rescue! See, its really easy to mistake someone’s tone in an email, particularly a short one.  So save a couple of exclamations points (I feel dirty for some [...]

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Columns of text should not be flexible

By Ammon | April 30 2009

There are examples of flexible layouts that work, but they do not have flexible columns of text, they have static width columns that move when the window is resized.  So when the window is wide, the content fills in that space, when the window is narrow, the page gets long and narrow.  These sites are [...]

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I don’t want to hear your music

By Ammon | April 30 2009

Dear modern people of the information age I do not want to hear your music.  Not on your ringtone, not on your voicemail message, not on your website and especially not in place of your ringer when I call you.  It does not make me think you’re clever, I am not impressed buy your taste. [...]

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A list of HTML Snippets in Gedit

By admin | April 28 2009

Snippets are extremely useful feature of Gedit that make it usable for TextMate fiends like myself. They work exactly the same as in TM: in Gedit go to Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins and put a check next to “Snippets”. Now open, say, an html file, type body and press TAB. Gedit will automatically fill [...]

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Just sign the waiver

By admin | April 25 2009

I just completed adding all of my posts from my previous blog at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com to this blog. I haven’t even read all of my original posts but I can tell you that there are some factual errors and naivete that I am not taking responsibility for. Use at your own risk, there is some stupid [...]

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FTOB: Set height and width for anchors with display:block

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/25/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com Turns out the width and height properties only work on anchor tags when used in conjunction with display:block. WTF? So this does not work: a { width: 100px; height: 100px; } But this does: a { width: 100px; height: 100px; display:block; } Again, have I seriously never run into [...]

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FTOB: CSS width property does exactly what you would expect it to

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/19/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com The other day I was laying out a wordpress driven site in css and realized that I didn’t actually understand how the “width” property works. This was extremely embarrassing to admit to myself, because it means I’ve been flubbing and cheating my way through the layout of every website [...]

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FTOB: Using jQuery with WordPress

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I struggled with this, as the usual method of including a javascript library and an external javascript script did not work. Usually, I would do this: <script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js” ></style> <script style=”text/javascript” src=<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/myScript.js” ></style> But that didn’t work at all, even when I included the [...]

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FTOB: Installing Haxe on Mac OS 10.5.5

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I decided not to use MTASC as my compiler after all, since it can’t do Actionscript 3. I’m going with Haxe instead. Installation: Go to http://haxe.org/download and download the OSX Universal Installer. Unpack the installer and double click on it Open up .bash_login from you home directory in your [...]

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FTOB: Installing Haxe

By admin | April 25 2009

Originally posted on 10/10/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com I decided that if MTASC is only good for Actionscript 2 I should probably try Haxe, which is a compiler that does Actionscript 3 as well as a lot of other stuff. It looks like my development platform is not going to resemble the book I was referencing at [...]

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