Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

I recently read an article about turning the “asynchronous-ness” up a notch. His reasoning was very good, response times keep users on the site longer. Lets go in to more detail. Ajax requests allow users to stay on the same page, while the site contacts the server in the background. This may be to post [...]

For those fans of Gedit and Clientside plugin it is time for you to update! The plugin now has updated versions of CSSLint, JSLint, and JSBeautify. As you may know Clientside Plugin provides several utilities to Gedit for working with CSS and Javascript, including minifying, formatting, and error checking/lint. Also as a bonus it can [...]

Everyone needs to test emails for web applications, but it turns your inbox into a mess. Not to mention constantly refreshing your web mail and clicking Send/Receive. You struggle to find the broken html, and viewing your text and html alternate versions just takes too much time. This is where Email Dissector comes in to [...]

I develop php backends for websites on the regular. And far to often I end up sending emails, and need to test their layouts by sending them to my primary email address. But wouldn’t it be MUCH more convenient to send them to an email address @localhost and keep my primary account clean? Well you’re [...]

In my previous post I covered a basic example of using CSS Media Queries to create a slick left menu to auto hide when the screen is smaller than 500px. This post I want to take that a step further. Lets say we want to show the navigation on landscape orientation with the ipad, but [...]