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
Toolbars on the Bottom of the Page
Adding a toolbar pinned to the bottom of the view port is becoming more common for websites. The idea is to add a bit of functionality, making common links easily accessible at any time. The problem is that it can often give the site a false footer, as is the case with CNET. As you… Continue reading Toolbars on the Bottom of the Page
CakePHP Image Helper
I’ve rewritten my image helper to extend off of CakePHP’s built in HTML helper, rather than reinvent the wheel. The major benefit of using this helper is that it determines the image dimensions, if not specified, and applies them to the image tag, which is one of Google’s rules to optimize browser rendering. <?php/** * This… Continue reading CakePHP Image Helper
Dissecting Yahoo’s 10 Things Not to Buy in 2010
Yahoo has an article in finance listing 10 items that are pointless to buy in 2010. There are several items on the list that I will definitely still purchase in 2010 despite Yahoo’s flawed logic. The first being DVDs. The article states: On average, DVDs sell for at least $20 each. That’s pricier than signing… Continue reading Dissecting Yahoo’s 10 Things Not to Buy in 2010
jQuery Selectors Last and Last-Child
jQuery has a plethora of selectors, two of which being :last and :last-child. It should be very obvious that these do not achieve the same goal. Well, I spent the better part of an hour figuring that out. I went down the page of selectors knowing jQuery has a selector for :last-child, and saw :last… Continue reading jQuery Selectors Last and Last-Child
eS Accel Shoes Are Painfully Uncomfortable
I’ve had these shoes for a little over 6 months now. I wear them everyday, but the most I will do with them is a lot of walking at the mall or theme park. Not long after I got them, my heels and the balls of my feet would hurt if I stood for more… Continue reading eS Accel Shoes Are Painfully Uncomfortable