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GUI Police Need Patrol Cars
By the time they call in the GUI Police, it’s usually too late already. You know the scenario, right? The development team (which, in a typical small business scenario does not include any user...
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500 Free Web Icons: LED Icon Set
Admit it: You can never have enough icons for your web applications. That’s what Marcis Gasuns thought, and so he came up with 512 Pixel LED Icon Set. (Click the image below for the full preview.) If...
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Good Stuff Happens & Comes in Small(er) Portions
If you’re getting tired of the “33 Astonishing Examples” and “51 Unique Icon Sets” articles that keep getting published by the blog power houses, well, then you and I have a lot in common. Not that...
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What’s the max value for the z-index?
The answer is, it could be as high as 2,147,483,647 (according to CSS Master Cameron Moll). More specifically, it depends on the web browser. According to Eric Puidokas, who did some z-index testing in...
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How do YOU stay sane?
Sometimes I look around my office and wonder how I ever manage to spend so much time in one tiny crammed space. Sometimes, I work for hours on end into the night, trying to get an assignment or...
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Flex + PopUpManager + TitleWindow
Note to self: If you create a custom-skinned Flex application, the windows created with PopUpManager will inherit the same customized look-and-feel. Duh! It seems so obvious now, but I’m embarrassed to...
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Change Field Size in Existing Table (SQL Server, Transact SQL)
Note to self: Use the following syntax to change the size of an existing field in an existing table. ALTER TABLE Changes_Perf_FormLayout ALTER COLUMN SpecialID varchar(50) Yes, a) there are slicker...
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Interesting & Unusual Design Resources
The following links are simply meant to remind me (or you) of some great web resources. Take it or leave it, and if you have any additional links, ideas or suggestions, please let me know. Web Site...
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ScribeFire to the rescue
So here I am, back in 2012, and I think it’s time to resurrect my blog. There have been so many things I’ve been doing over the last couple of years, and in hindsight, I wish I would have written down...
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Simple isotope custom example
If you’ve looked at isotope and played around with it a little bit, you probably realize how many options, filters, layout modes, etc. can result in amazingly dynamic layouts. On the other hand, if...
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Better Drop Shadows in Photoshop . . .
Sometimes you just need to do something “crazy & creative” with the Drop Shadow layer style in Photoshop. Better Drop Shadows in Photoshop Although I’ve done very similar things myself (a couple of...
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After Mountain Lion Update: “. . . can’t be opened because it is from an...
Thanks to TheSmokeMonster at Apple Support Communities, I was able to feel a sense of control again. After updating to Mountain Lion Mac OS recently, I’ve noticed that the system categorically...
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Turn Off IPv6 in Mountain Lion
After trying to work from home with a VPN client called TunnelBlick (for Mac OS X), I started going batty when the application kept disconnecting, re-configuring, connecting and disconnecting...
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UploadScreenshot is Down (only today I hope)
How do you keep track of great ideas, graphic design examples, precious articles, billing receipts and anything else you see on the web but don’t want to bookmark? Sometimes, one more bookmark is just...
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CSS3 Ordered List Styles
Although not every web broser fully supports the CSS3 pseudo elements :after and :before, this article by Catalin Rosu, CSS3 Ordered List Styles, is definitely worth reading and demo-ing. Although it...
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Back again
It has been a few months since my previous blog fell victim to some ruthless injection attacks. No matter what I tried to secure that thing, I just couldn’t keep up with the amount of “bad JavaScript”...
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Computer User Icon Pins
Is this really who we are? If you happen to have kids, and you’ve noticed that all their paintings show you sitting at the computer, from behind, then you might just want to wear this pin from...
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It’s Accordion (not accordiAn) . . .
Just quickly, for the benefit of those of us who get hung up by typos, or are otherwise obsessive about the right terminology for the right thing: The UI element that collapses and expands one group of...
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HTML5 code snippets to take your website to the next level
HTML5 code snippets to take your website to the next level from Cats Who Code at http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/html5-code-snippets-to-take-your-website-to-the-next-level. This is a great collection...
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Scope Your CSS (simple version)
Scenario: You’re working on a web application or web site with a number of other developers and designers. Everybody is responsible for her/his modules, but in the end, everyone needs to adhere to the...
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