On a completely different topic, I’ve recently set up a web server at home. Three great tools helped make this happen. The first would be my Linksys Wireless G router. This router offers a Dynamic DNS utility that keeps my ever-changing home IP address working. The second tool would be The Saint TSW, a WAMP …
Category Archives: Web Development
Mozilla is gaining ground
Lambda Chi Alpha’s conference, called General Assembly, is to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 29-31 – just three weeks away! My goal is to build a demo of our new site, with two or more CSS designs. I have a lot of work ahead of me. Since the entire site is going to use …
Building Peace Corps Websites
More Peace Corps irony. Twice this week I received requests from Peace Corps volunteers asking for help in building Peace Corps related websites (either for volunteers or the communities they are serving). Though I’m flattered, it seems people are forgetting that I got kicked out of the Peace Corps for building websites (e.g. this very …
Web development bookmarklets
Since my bookmarklets didn’t port too well over to bookmarks.yahoo.com, I wanted to leave myself a note as to where I can find and download these tools when I arrive at Lambda Chi Web Development Bookmarklets The rest of Jesse’s Bookmarklets Favelets Bookmarklets Sitepoint’s Better Living Through Bookmarklets The web development bookmarklets in particular are …
Peek-a-boo CSS bug
I experienced my first peek-a-boo CSS bug in IE today. I can’t believe this problem has never happened for me. Thankfully, I quickly recognized the problem and remembered reading a solution a while back. The peek-a-boo bug is when IE reserves space for a block item, say a P, H1, or DIV tag, but fails …