A tip I picked up years ago, the source escapes me at this point in time, is alphabetize your CSS style properties. It makes it much easier to jump to the specific property later. Take the following 2 examples, and find the margin in each. p { width: 75%; border: 1px solid #000; overflow: hidden;… Continue reading A Quick Tip for Easier CSS Editing
Author: Seth Cardoza
The Trials and Tribulations of a Grooveshark User
If you don’t know about Grooveshark, it’s a really nice service that allows you to listen to just about any music your heart would desire. Unlike other free music streaming services, you can listen to the exact songs you want whenever you want, and however many times you want. Add music to a library, mark… Continue reading The Trials and Tribulations of a Grooveshark User
Boycott Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a sexist, made up, capitalistic holiday. All advertisements aim at men buying stuff for women. No one ever talks about a woman buying something for their man, and why does anyone need to buy anything at all. Let’s all band together and boycott Valentine’s Day this year.* *Disclaimer: Seth Cardoza is not… Continue reading Boycott Valentine’s Day
Update Your Business Model
If you haven’t heard, I’m getting married this year. One of the fun things I get to do is talk to vendors, food vendors, photographers, videographers, DJs, and hotel/resort managers. I recently spoke with a wedding photographer, and a question I always have is “Who gets the rights to the photos?”. This is very important… Continue reading Update Your Business Model
The Man Grooveshark Playlist
Here’s another Grooveshark playlist I put together. All song titles have the word “man” somewhere in them. If you have any suggestions, I’ll take them into consideration. One noted omission is Black Sabbath – Iron Man, as I hear it way too often, and it doesn’t really add to the quality of the playlist. Listen… Continue reading The Man Grooveshark Playlist
Placeholder Image Generator
This is a great tool for placeholder images for wireframing a project. A while back, a service called Placehold.it was posted to reddit. It received mixed reviews, most of the criticism being that the site owners themselves, or a hacker could replace all your placeholder images with something much less work appropriate. I decided to… Continue reading Placeholder Image Generator
The Wonder Years Grooveshark Playlist
I made a Grooveshark playlist capturing most (it’s really hard to get it all) of the music from the Wonder Years TV series. I used wonderyearsguide.com as a reference point. I’m not sure if the website is complete, but it covers quite a bit of music. Some songs that are notably missing are any Christmas… Continue reading The Wonder Years Grooveshark Playlist
Nature Valley National Parks Project
As I was eating my highly nutritious granola bar breakfast this morning, I noticed some writing on the wrapper. Nature Valley National Parks Project will donate $0.10 for each wrapper you mail in, through August 31, 2010. My first WTF was “why would I spend $0.42 on a stamp for you to donate $0.10?” I’m… Continue reading Nature Valley National Parks Project
Misplaced Hate on Flash Based Websites
Flash receives a great deal of hate from the web development community, myself included. Common complaints include load times, performance, unnecessary animations/transitions, forcing users to watch (long) intro movies, inability to bookmark content or specific pages, inaccessibility (especially to mobile users), auto play audio, and that it is bad for SEO. The thing is, most… Continue reading Misplaced Hate on Flash Based Websites
jQuery Form Focus Plugin
This jQuery plugin will add a background color to text, password, and textarea input fields in forms when focused, and then revert to the original background color on blur. It is a one line call, with one (optional) parameter, the background color. You can target all forms on the page with this simple line: $(‘form’).formFocus();… Continue reading jQuery Form Focus Plugin