Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Ultimate CSS Button Generator

http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/

Friday, December 9, 2011

Convert icons from ICNS to ICO

Use this cool site:
http://iconverticons.com/

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Introducing iPhone-style Checkboxes

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2009/06/16/iphone-style-checkboxes.html

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Sass

Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

http://sass-lang.com/





Thursday, August 25, 2011

CSS Mania with Sass, Compass, & Lemonade

Start Here:
http://youtu.be/b_-HLevIJbc

Saturday, June 11, 2011

jQuery Image RollOver

Here is the JQuery Script

$(function() {
$('img[data-hover]').hover(function() {
$(this).attr('tmp', $(this).attr('src')).attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover')).attr('data-hover', $(this).attr('tmp')).removeAttr('tmp');
}).each(function() {
$('').attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover'));
});;
});

Here is the var you add to the img

<br /><img data-hover="second.gif" src="first.gif" /><br />

Here is the original link
http://www.selfcontained.us/2008/03/08/simple-jquery-image-rollover-script/

jQuery Image RollOver

<br />$(function() {<br /> $('img[data-hover]').hover(function() {<br /> $(this).attr('tmp', $(this).attr('src')).attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover')).attr('data-hover', $(this).attr('tmp')).removeAttr('tmp');<br /> }).each(function() {<br /> $('<img />').attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover'));<br /> });;<br />});<br />
<br /><img data-hover="second.gif" src="first.gif" /><br />

jQuery Image RollOver


$(function() {
$('img[data-hover]').hover(function() {
$(this).attr('tmp', $(this).attr('src')).attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover')).attr('data-hover', $(this).attr('tmp')).removeAttr('tmp');
}).each(function() {
$('').attr('src', $(this).attr('data-hover'));
});;
});



Tuesday, April 26, 2011

How to grep in unix

The "grep" command allows you to find text within a file

grep -r -i main-content ../../

grep [options] [search query / pattern] [where]

Some options
-r / recursive: read all files under each directory, recursively
-i / ignore case: upper - lower case friendly



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Wordpress Youtube Gallery

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-simplegallery/

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Making DIV a Link - Javascript Vs CSS

Few days ago, I was looking for the best way to make a DIV into a link when I came across this website: Almost Effortless!. The author showed how to make a div a link with a little bit of Javascript (see article). It is actually pretty simple:

The Javascript Technic:
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By this method, the whole block is clickable with just a single line of code while, with CSS, you will need to set few parameters to get the same result. Pretty cool, no?

Here is the CSS technic:

Now, let’s see how it works with CSS.

First, put a link inside your div:
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…and now set the link’s display property to 100% to fill the DIV in your stylesheet:
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1. #header {
2. width:300px;
3. height:100px;
4. border: solid #EEE;
5. }
6.
7. #header a {
8. display:block;
9. width:100%;
10. height:100%;
11. text-decoration:none;
12. }
13.
14. #header a:hover {
15. text-decoration:none;
16. background-color: #EFEFEF;
17. }

#header {
width:300px;
height:100px;
border: solid #EEE;
}

#header a {
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100%;
text-decoration:none;
}

#header a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
}

Conclusion:
As you can see, the Javascript technic is faster than the CSS one but keep in mind that some people might disable Javascript in their browser and won’t see the link.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Flare Video

My buddy Joey found a great free h.264 video player that you can customize.

http://www.flarevideo.com/

Check it out

Friday, June 18, 2010

jQuery Pirobox

Need an awesome way to display your pictures on your site. Check out pirobox.

http://www.pirolab.it/pirobox/

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Fixed Background Image

In CSS:
background:#42021E url(images/bg.png) repeat-x;
background-attachment:fixed;
}

If you want to learn more about backgrounds, you can read up at w3chools.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

How to get www in front of your URL

So my website, www.moderncurio.com is missing the "www" in front of it's name. Apparently it's a common occurrence that will 15 minutes to fix and weeks to resolve.

The solution is a two part fix. The first leg involves setting up Google Webmaster Tools. After you verify your sites (both the www and non-www). Go to Site Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain and set it to "Display URLs as www.example.com"

Part two of the solution is to set up a 301 redirect and you can do that by adding the code below to your .htaccess file:

# non-www to www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]


To learn more, read up on more on 301 redirects.

After all this, it'll take a while for google webmaster tools to take effect. Apparently, it takes weeks for Google Webmaster Tools Blog to configure itself. You can learn more about the process at the tools.

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NOTE: WORDPRESS USERS:
For WordPress Users, you will also need to change a setting in wordpress general settings and set your preferred URLs to have www.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Online Favicon Maker

I know this isn't code related however I thought this would be good to track.

I needed to make a favicon today so I used this online site to generate it.

http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

Helping the Browser Locate the favicon.ico file

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Subversion: Accidently SVN RM'd a file or folder?

*points finger*... laughs.

If you accidently svn rm'd a file or folder. Don't stress out. As long as you didn't svn commit the change, you're fine. All you have to do is run:

For a file:
svn revert file_name

For a folder:
svn revert --recursive folder_name

You can also do this to a file or folder that you ran svn add on.

Ruby: Inserting Table Data into your messages

So I wanted to improve the UI of a feature that I was building by having the alert include the actual name of what I modifying and at what time. There is a specific syntax used to insert it and it looks like this within the control structure.

if var.updated_at

show.now[:alert] = "Your client, #{var.name} came at #{var.modified_time}."

end

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Ruby: if elsif elsif else statements... ya... they do exist.

I'm not crazy... just a n00b.

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# if, elsif and else illustrated

print "What distance in miles? "

miles = STDIN.gets.to_f

if miles < 2
puts "walk"
elsif miles < 6
puts "cycle"
elsif miles < 30
puts "bus or drive"
elsif miles < 350
puts "train"
else
puts "don't bother"
end

print "#{miles} miles is #{miles/5*8} kilometres\n"

Link for more info.