So this has been an issue that comes up periodically. Sometimes I just want to know the pixel measurement of something I see on the screen. Many times I just need the dimensions of an image I see on the web, so it’s easy enough to just view it in Firefox and look at the [...]

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So you know all those rectangular buttons strewn haphazardly across the intertubes? The ones that look like this: ? Except usually they say RSS, XHTML or tout some web2.0 service. Well I recently stumbled across this website that lets you very easily make your own!
It gives you a bunch of parameters to play around [...]

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This is a feature I’ve been using for awhile now and it just occurred to me that it was a really great feature. In this day and age where javascript is used to place tons of html it can be a bit of a pain trying to figure out what is going on with your [...]

Categories: firefox · geekfindr · javascript

So the other day I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 - it’s actually because I found this intel specific build and wanted to try it out. I haven’t really compared it much with the regular firefox version, but it doesn’t seem to be significantly faster at first glance.
But that’s not what I wanted to talk about [...]

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So, at heart, I’m a backend programmer - when someone tells me they want to have tables sortable by different columns that’s a backend issue. One benefit of that is that it’s easily made bookmarkable so if reports are customizable in any way, it’s easy to bookmark a single configuration. But, if that’s not really [...]

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One of the requirements of building a web2.0 site is to have rounded corners, square corners are so web1.0. This can be a little bit of a pain in the butt, building the images and putting in the markup to round all your boxes. Fortunately there’s curvyCorners to the rescue!
This is a bit o’ javascript [...]

Categories: geekfindr · javascript · web2.0

I’ve just started messing around a little bit in the htmlPlayground. It’s a pretty interesting site - it let’s you interactively play around with xhtml and css attributes while showing you the output of your efforts.
The site is pretty cool, with several panes that list all the tags, css attributes, a little contextual description [...]

Categories: css · geekfindr · web app · web2.0

While in general I don’t love using CSS for the broad layout of a site. If the site is simple enough it makes sense and can really simplify the structure of the page. Typically this involves looking around for the latest tricks to columnify something that resolutely doesn’t wish to be made into columns (which [...]

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It is on reasonable occasion that I find it necessary to figure out what’s going on with a domain or IP Address - typically this involves dig (ok, I’ll admit it, I still use nslookup…), traceroute, whois or ping. Usually when that becomes necessary, it’s also interesting or necessary to be able to perform those [...]

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Continuing on with my design theme this weekend… there are no shortage of times when I’m faced with needing to figure out what fonts to use and in white size, weight, etc.. to use them. Often, to some degree there isn’t that much involved, but every now and again you need to get a [...]

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