Just so that you’re sufficiently warned: This post offers no practical information. Its a "remember when? didn’t that suck?" post. I think it was 2004. Prototype.js was new and was rocking my world. But it was still just a few convenience features put on top of JavaScript. I needed to stripe table rows dynamically and [...]
February 12, 2009 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Update: This script has been overhauled since this post. View the new code and demo here. As fate would have it the first night of my trip to Provo, Utah turned in to an all night work session to get a few things wrapped up so that we could release them during WordCamp Utah. As [...]
September 28, 2008 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
Puddlemonkey.com has received its long overdue redesign. The update also puts the site on WordPress. The site is about the writing so the design is meant to be playful and stylish, yet still leave the content as the main focus. There’s still plenty of work to be done but this gets it off the ground [...]
September 2, 2008 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Update 2009-02-22: This plugin has been upgraded to version 2. Read about it by clicking here. Tired of copying/pasting Lipsum placeholder text? Me too. Behold Gippy’s Lipsum Plugin. Bask in its laziness. With a simple {lipsum} in your post, page or comment you can embed 3 paragraphs of Lipsum text. It works on the creation [...]
June 20, 2008 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Found a nice little bug in the stable version of MySQL5 in the MacPorts repository yesterday. Version is 5.051a and when using GROUP BY it ignored ORDER BY DESC and returned results in ascending order. Its been a known bug since MARCH. The MySQL5-devel port is working fine in the mean time, but holy shit. [...]
June 19, 2008 | Web Design & Development | No comments
I just finished up a new version of my script that embeds flash video in a web page to make it more diversified in what kinds of video it can handle. There are some that will not work since they’re doing some url manipulation on the ID of the flash object that make it impossible [...]
January 17, 2008 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Oldie but Goodie Why should the image map be ignored? Its understood by every major browser around and is perfectly suited to do what some people insist on doing in flash. This sample shows a simple North American map divided up into regions and the rollovers controlled by some very simple JavaScript code. JavaScript was [...]
March 16, 2007 | Code, Web Design & Development | No comments
I’ve gotten a few comments about the speed of this site in the past. While considering the speed of the line it was being served on, 384Kbps, it wasn’t bad. But I finally got tired of the slow upload speed, for quite a few reasons, and upped the line. I now have a 768Kpbs upload. [...]
January 15, 2007 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Well, technically smaller. This new version actually has less lines of code. See, I was trying to be a good boy when I first wrote the script. I tried to be fully DOM compliant and not use innerHTML as it is a non-standard function and has somewhat of a dubious reputation. Well. Screw it. IE [...]
December 14, 2006 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Since I now have an actual PC in the house I am able to take a look at this site with IE 7 and not have to endure Virtual PC’s glacial speeds. As of the official release of IE 7 to the masses this site only has three bugs (that I’ve found in casual browsing). [...]
October 21, 2006 | Web Design & Development | No comments
NOTICE: This script has been updated and there is a new version available here. Thanks! A while back I got the urge to write this for no other reason than to make my life over at the Clubhouse a bit more convenient. Frankly, I didn’t want to have to click through to watch YouTube and [...]
October 13, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 7 comments
I just hit an interesting snafu with Apple’s Safari browser. While correctly rendering special characters from a page that lacked a doctype and character encoding meta tag, I viewed the page’s source and noticed that Safari wasn’t rendering any special characters that it was rendering in the actual page view. With the help of the [...]
October 5, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 4 comments
Knowing the base directory that you’re working from when building a site is a pretty basic need. For the longest time I had been content with just manually setting the base paths and switching between them based on the name of the server. I recently learned a much better way. I hadn’t really sought this [...]
September 30, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 3 comments
It seems that when generating tables in JavaScript IE requires that you generate a tBody with that table or else nothing at all shows up. See, when loading a page browsers will generate a tBody automatically and slip it into the dom. That’s why even when you don’t have one in your page you still [...]
July 9, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
Yeah, so I’m about a year behind everybody else on this one. I finally wrote my own little Ajax class. Most other classes out there were way too much for what I needed and I also needed to get my feet wet in OOP programming for Javascript so this was a keen little exercise for [...]
April 14, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
For a long time I’ve been lusting over a way to neatly arrange a block of images on paper the way it is so easy to do on screen. Or, at least, they way it has become so easy to do on screen. CSS actually opened the door to me finding a nice way to [...]
March 28, 2006 | Web Design & Development | No comments
UPDATE: Being a linux n00b I didn’t think that even though Ghostscript 7.07 can support everything I’ve done here it doesn’t mean that its been compiled with everything needed to do the job right. My test server at work and my production server both run GS 7.07 but the production server is lacking the EPS [...]
January 2, 2006 | Web Design & Development | 4 comments
I imagine that I’m not alone in my job duties of having to format long passages of text into html for inclusion in a web site. A lot of time can be wasted hand formatting lots of text with tables and lists. I was pretty surprised when I found that TextEdit in OS X 10.4 [...]
December 7, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 3 comments
I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to join a trendy web thingy. I was kind of enjoying being basic and clean. But I got sucked in. Gravatars have been added. So, clean up those gravatars, boys and girls, and be sure that they’re transparent because your grav just might end up on a shaded [...]
September 14, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 26 comments
September 11 marks a few treacherous days in history: The Battle of Brandywine in 1777, the crashing of airliners into the world trade center in 2001, and the founding of the Gippy Pages in 2004. No, I don’t claim to be as influential and significant as those, but it does go to show that bad [...]
September 11, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 9 comments
As if it wasn’t a given, most of my hits come from Mac users. I hear a lot of rumblings around that points to Safari not being the browser of choice among many Mac users due to this bug or that bug but it still dominates my browser list. IE comes in at 3rd in [...]
August 7, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 4 comments
I noticed a snafu with the links in the RSS feed this morning. I forgot to update the links in the RSS feed when I changed domains so when a link was followed to read the full story the user was not presented with the full story. That has now been fixed. If a story [...]
August 3, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 3 comments
The Internet Explorer 7 seems to be a basic functionality release. All the talk on the IE Blog about standards compatability didn’t seem to leak its way into this release. This version is actually seems worse than IE 6 at page rendering and compatability. The text to follow is a highly biased review (hey, I’m [...]
July 28, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 4 comments
