Archives for: "November 2008"
Thank You Malwarebytes
Nov 9th
I don't often "surf the 'net", visiting unfamiliar sites. Most of my Internet access is in search of LAMP/RIA technical resources and answers, as well as contributing my own through this blog and on the appropriate sites.
Recently, I was checking a s… more »
Have the Server Watch Your Account
Nov 6th
This crontab entry will email you a report of all the files modified within the past 24 hours.
find $HOME -mtime 0
Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in the last twenty-four hours. This command works this way becaus… more »
Cool Hover Effect
Nov 6th
The link above provides a nice hover effect, done with CSS and a tiny bit of javascript.
The approach is to use two divs. The outer or container div has a background image assigned through CSS. The inner div contains the text, and is hidden (displa… more »
Debugging Web Pages in IE
Nov 6th
Tricks for debugging web pages under IE, if you don't have any tools.
Comment out all but the code that doesn't work. Often the code that's not working is broken because of something else.
Have a separate CSS file, just for IE
Use alert to halt j… more »
Polished UI - Cost Effectively
Nov 6th
Tactics to produce a polished (web) user interface, in a cost-effective manner.
This is different than the design, in that these issues are related to the user's interaction, rather than the visual presentation. For example, the visual presentation w… more »