I’m thinking about starting to do some PayPerPost blog posts. To confirm this is my blog I have to paste the following sentence into a post:
The interior defense dines under the sabotage.
Kind of a strange random sentence huh.
I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails lately. I’m getting to know the basics and am able to do quite a bit. It has really helped me understand programming in general a lot more. At work there is so much going on that I more or less jumped in to try and help get some applications going quicker that were thrown on the back-burner. I still have a ton to learn but it has really helped me appreciate all that programmers do. In the process I have really been burned out by the time I get home end of day.
I’ve been looking for a solution to create full page iFramed webpages with headers. Here is a solution I’ve started using for full screen iframes with headers. Here’s a link to my Snipplr code for it. I tried to embed it in this post but it didn’t work out very well. The code has worked out great for me and I’ve shared it with a few people at work, and they have been using it and it’s been working great for them. Rather than explain it I’ll let you take a look at it.
I’ve recently wanted to try and use some different code to add some default values to my input fields, especially the search box. Most code I’ve seen does some type of a label overlay which involved a lot of freaking code. I finally found some code and did a little tweaking to it to fit my situation. You can also find it under my Snipplr code.
I don’t know if anyone has ever found their PRE or CODE not wrapping, but I have and this little gem of code is the code I use to clean it up. Here’s a link to my Snipplr version of the code.
pre {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 should we be so lucky... */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 ?? */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 ?? */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
_white-space: pre; /* IE only hack to re-specify in addition to word-wrap */
}
I was trying to find a good snippet of code that would help me style the different browsers better. I’ve used all the attribute hacks before but one thing I’ve run into lately is the fact that Chrome and Safari end up interpreting and displaying input tags differently even though they are both Webkit based. There were not individual attribute hacks that I could find, but I was able to find this beauty over at http://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector. I’ve also added the code to my Snipplr Arsenal so you can get it over at http://snipplr.com/view/23988/adds-os-and-browser-class-to-html-tag/
So I’ve been working for the last couple of days on a bug at work that is an IE specific bug but may actually help with other browsers in different circumstances. I’m surprised I haven’t run into this bug sooner than I had. I first read a great article on css-tricks.com that I borrowed the screenshot from to illustrate the issue. Their method was good but not exactly what I was looking for. So I decided to come up with my own code.
Gmail
So I don’t really like using programs like Outlook, Entourage, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail to manage my mail. I’m also a huge GMail fan. I use nothing but Gmail now. I hate setting up clients and I always use multiple computers to check my email. Gmail offers tons of space for email so space has never been an issue for me. I thought I would do some searching for some different Gmail specific clients for my Mac that make using Gmail just a little bit easier.
At work this week I have spent a lot of time making sure things look good in all web browsers. These are the browsers that I have been checking things on lately the most.
I’m in the early replanning stages of sitefromscratch.com. I’ve had the domain for quite some time and have had big plans to make it a very open source centric community. I am planning on starting with some of the more common and easier to setup and manage Content Management Systems first. I will get into the more complicated systems like the ecommerce carts after I get things rolling on the other ones.
SiteFromScratch.com will be centralized at sitefromscratch.com and all the news and announcements will be managed there along with feedback collection. I will have a specific criteria to test the different types of systems by. Hopefully the evaluations and howto’s will help people figure out what systems will work best for the different types of sites they may want to setup.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for applications you would like to see videos for. I’m hoping to make mostly videos when it makes sense. If you are an expert or really familiar with some of the different open source applications and would like to contribute your videos and tutorials, let me know and I’ll let you know what we can do.