Category Archives: Tech


All your base belong to us…

Time to welcome the robot overlords, turn on Skynet, turn in fear from Hal 9000, and hope that it/they is/are/can be nice like Jane.
The Storm Worm is coming to get us all

Paul Graham is spot on (as always)

Holding a Program in One’s Head
In fact, if you look at the way software gets written in most organizations, it’s almost as if they were deliberately trying to do things wrong. In a sense, they are. One of the defining qualities of organizations since there have been such a thing is to treat individuals as […]

jQuery plugin in under an hour

Ever need to print out the tags of a jQuery object in addition to the content? $.fn.html() not cutting it?
A simple outerHtml jQuery plugin
See the code nicely on pastie

Saying good bye to Lotus…

Its been two years in at IBM, so that is about time for the “I’ve Been Moved” pseudonym to take affect. Starting this past week (since I was on vacation the week prior) I left the yellow box plastered walls of Lotus and head to a group inside of the CIO office.

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So whats new…

For this round of redesign, I focused on two things.. simplicity and external content. With the last site, I had enough of all the spliced images, excessive shadows, and hacky html and CSS to pull it off. So this time I’ve stuck with a subtle color scheme, plenty of whitespace, and (practically) no images. I […]

Another way to hack CSS for IE (nicely?)

After some #IEroot inspiration at positioniseverything.net and some help from here, I’ve come up with yet another approach to paritioning CSS rules based on the browser. Using this technique you can get rid of the * html hack and the need for a separate IE 7 CSS file.
I liked how positioniseverything suggested using conditional comments […]

You are not a true web developer until…

You have used firebug. I’ve been an avid firebug user the minute I first heard about it — starting with the initial appeal of CSS inspection, then integrated error reporting, and then getting hooked on the interactive javascript console. Firebug .3 was a big step up from the built in DOM inspector, but still it […]

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