My Favorite App Today – 360 Panorama by Occipital
Today my favorite app is 360 Panorama by Occipital. If you enjoy taking panoramic pictures and have an iPhone4, iPhone 3GS or an iPodTouch 4 than this app is a must-have. My co-worker Jonathan Farrell turned me on to this app a couple of months ago. At the time I felt as though I was [...]
Life is Like a Box of Javascript Variables
Let’s take a minute and swim in the muddy waters of variable declaration and naming in Javascript. Have you ever opened a box of chocolates full of delicious sweet wonderment only to realize that the paper guide, which tells you what filling is in which chocolate, has gone missing? Let’s up the ante and say [...]
Quick and Easy Windowless Popup Overlay in jQuery
The benefits of triggering a popup layover in jQuery over triggering a browser window are numerous. All code in one DOM – all control and tracking done in one page environment. Less reliance on the client’s browser setting that might adversely affect the popup window. (Blockers, Security settings, etc.) No abandoned Popups Last but not [...]
Overriding CSS without !Important – Specificity
CSS is a simple yet powerful tool that can greatly reduce the headaches that go hand-in-hand with web development. But the knife that is CSS cuts both ways – CSS can be the bane of your web-existence and cause many such headaches. In my experience I have found the CSS headaches start to come into [...]
Cache-Control – Setting The Expiration Time
My ill-advised approach to Cache-Control has traditionally been an overly simplified thought process as detailed in the flow chart on the right. At work we are in the process of putting one our blog news sites on a CDN. The CDN would like cached pages to work with their servers. The writers want their news [...]