I really am much better at implementing other people’s designs than I am at making my own from scratch.
Today I came across this CSS semantics challenge on fiftyfoureleven.com. Not feeling like working on the WSDL reporting pages I was supposed to be doing, I set out to create a semantically-sensible version of the given design. […]
I love IDEA, I really do, but why can’t it do its garbage collection when I’m not using it, instead of waiting until I give it focus again? As soon as I’m ready to go type some code in, it has to go and hang for a minute while it cleans itself up and I’m […]
Ok, so Mozilla is supposed to be more standards-compliant than IE and all that good stuff. But why oh why does it have to mess up my tables when I give it empty table cells?? I don’t know if empty TD tags are mentioned in the spec at all, but either way, it’s so annoying […]
I’ve been waffling back and forth about how I want to implement my Dad’s website. Should I create a content-management system that spits out static HTML files, or should I create a dynamic system? I’m an application developer by trade, so my first instinct is the latter. But creating a dynamic system would tie me […]
I think I should learn PHP. I don’t really want to, but I think I should. So many hosting providers provide PHP, but how many provide J2EE support? And for a good price? Plus, what if I wanted to get away from the software engineering side of things and become more of a web developer? […]
Here’s a hint if you’re developing an application that needs to save any data: don’t use the name you display as the key to your object! What if you want to rename this object? In simple systems it’s not that big a deal, but when your system gets bigger, you’ll run into all sorts of […]