// May 27th, 2006 // No Comments » // Life
Last Thursday they began clearing our lot and laying the foundation forms. We’re so happy the building phase has finally begun.
It was exciting to walk around the forms and think about where things would be, what views would be like, etc.
We can’t wait to see it unfold.
// May 25th, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
IBM Developer Works always has great resources for developers. The AJAX tutorial below is no exception.
It’s a great introduction to the technology, conspicuously devoid of exclamation points, which is rare in an AJAX tutorial. Just a simple, easy to follow guide for developers wanting to make their web applications more dynamic and easier to use.
Read more at IBM Developer Works.
// May 25th, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
Just dropping a few references (mostly for myself) regarding the whole “Rounded Corners With CSS” issue. There are lots of ways to skin this cat. I’m not going to get into any of them as it’s a busy day… but here are the links….
Scott Schiller’s Method (“Three vertical sliding-doors”)
“Simple Rounded Corner CSS Boxes” by Ryan Thrash
The widely-used Spiffy Corners method
Nifty Corners by Alessandro Fulciniti
…by no means all-inclusive…
// May 23rd, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
This article has some good tips on how to manage JavaScript and CSS resources in dynamic, high-traffic content delivery environments.
It covers architecture considerations, compression, caching, and leveraging PHP to speed up content delivery and enhance the performance experience for your users.
Read more at Thinkvitamin.com.
// May 18th, 2006 // No Comments » // Technology
A friend showed me the Smart Keywords in Firefox and now I use them all the time.
From the article:
“A smart keyword (also known as keymark) is a special kind of bookmark that replaces a special sequence, %s, in the bookmark location field (URL) with the text entered after the keyword in the address bar.”
It’s basically a way to create a bookmark to pass parameters to URL’s by typing a shortcut key into the address bar. For instance I use it to search our support ticketing system for a particular ticket number.
I setup a bookmark shortcut so I can type in:
rt [ticket number]
i.e. "rt 1345"
and Firefox automatically reformats the URL as:
http://www.somecomain.com/Display.html?id=1345
The article also describes other ways the feature might be useful.
Read more at John Bokma’s Blog.
