Tag Archives: web design

As you may have noticed, recently I started identifying external links on this website with a little arrow symbol: ⇗. Most people agree that this is a neat idea – little visual cue that tells you the link points to … Continue reading →

On of my users tried to explain a bug to me today. Apparently the results on the search page would not sorting properly. Or they were sorting but not by date but by half or a quarter of the date. … Continue reading →

Admittedly, I’m a certified Stage 3 Javascript fanboi. There is a lot of things I love about the language, but one thing I do not particularly care for is the script tag syntax. Let me show you what I mean. … Continue reading →

Recently I wrote this lengthy on Google App Engine and new avenues of opportunity such ventures open up for us. It seems that I’m not alone in thinking about this stuff. The gist of that post was that Google App … Continue reading →

When the Google App Engine first launched I didn’t really have much to say about this. It was neat but I failed to fully comprehend what it represented. Only after I read a transcript of Steve Yegge’s recent talk in … Continue reading →

There is a billion and one wiki engines out there. Some are very simple, others have many advanced features. And almost every single one has it’s own idea on what a wiki syntax ought to be. There is really very … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting task: make a semi decent website, which is pretty, and maintainable without using any server side scripting or server side includes. In other words, we want a website that has a header, footer, a navigation sidebar … Continue reading →

I wasn’t going to comment on Joel Spolsky’s Martian Headsets ramble for two reasons: it was an obvious troll-bait, and people much smarter than me already pounded it into the ground. But alas, the Spolsky FUD seems to have infected … Continue reading →

Few days ago I did that whole 3-value checkbox thing basing it on some script I found online. I went back and I re-implemented it using some JQuery magic. I’m not going to reiterate the whole setup here. I recommend … Continue reading →

Here are two interesting quirks in the way JQuery works. Let’s say you want to check all the check-boxes on the page – how do you do it? It’s trivial: $(“:checkbox”).attr(“checked”, “true”); Now quickly, how do you un-check all the … Continue reading →

I’m doing more and more work with JQuery lately, and as I mentioned several times before I’m totally loving Javascript again. It is really a very concise and terse framework so it doesn’t really take long until you start feeling … Continue reading →

Recent conversation with the PHB regarding internal web application project: PHB: This is all good, but these 4 items here need to have a “not available” option Me: Ok, no problem. I’ll change it into a yes, no, n/a radio … Continue reading →

For a while now, I have been searching for a good Javascript framework to mess around with. I think I finally found one that I really like. JQuery is a 15 Kb bundle of pure fucking magic. It is tiny … Continue reading →

Here is a hypothetical situation: I introduce you to a total n00b – some dude who is completely green, and has no programming experience whatsoever. Let’s give this hypothetical construct some generic name – for example Guy. I bring this … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting question. Is it ethical to sell someone an expensive software suite the functionality of which could easily be replaced by simple 2-3 line shell script or few lines of code in the right place? Note that … Continue reading →

My company’s website was redesigned few months back. I had nothing to do with it, because I’m not really a designer. I’m a back-end dude – I live in PHP and MySQL, and while I’m no stranger to CSS, design … Continue reading →

There are two fundamental schools of thought when it comes to web design. You can talk about different design methods, technologies, paradigms and etc but there is one very simple, binary choice that you have to make when deciding on … Continue reading →

I’ve been getting hit by hot linking pretty hard lately. If the site has been slow and unresponsive lately, it might have been because of that. Apparently someone has been using some of the images hosted here in their post … Continue reading →

I hate blackboard. I really, really hate blackboard. But it’s better than nothing. Anyone else has this sort of love/hate relationship with the world’s worst course management system? What is pissing me off about Blackboard today? It’s the grade book … Continue reading →

I had a page recently that would just not print properly in Firefox, even though IE 6 and 7 were printing it correctly. When I went to print-preview FF would tell me that there are 3-4 pages of content to … Continue reading →

A while ago Jeff Artwood wrote about “outsourcing” hosting your images to a 3rd party service as a method for minimizing bandwidth costs. This a very practical advice not just for high traffic sites but for just about anyone. You … Continue reading →

Here is a quick registry hack to add a new entry “Run PNGOUT on Folder” to your context menu. It will iterate through all the files in the directory, and run PNGOUT on every PNG file it finds. It will … Continue reading →

If my blog looked like shit for the past few days then it’s your own fucking fault. You need to get your ass off IE 6.0 and upgrade to a real browser – even if it is IE 7.0. I … Continue reading →

I just discovered Komodo Edit from ActiveState (the same dudes who make that windows based Perl Package. Review Time! Komodo Edit 4.1 product My new favorite PHP editor. What is it? Komodo Edit 4.1 is a lightweight IDE with support … Continue reading →

I decided to make a Firefox Search Plugin for this site, mostly because I was wondering how hard would it be. Surprisingly enough, it is a really easy task. You should be able to create one without any experience in … Continue reading →