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Change of Clothes

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:05:00 GMT

For the past two weekends I have spent my time redesigning this site. Last night I changed the color scheme and touched up the navigation. I couldn’t help it, I had to put rollovers on my links… I feel rather out of touch, are rollovers cool in Web 2.0 – 3.0?

For the Log: Active Link Javascript

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:06:50 GMT

Small function which takes an unordered list and switches an active class by an onclick event. Prior to setting the class it disables all other classes with in the list so only one link is active.

Inspiration

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:57:15 GMT

Each night at 11pm sharp I hear a trumpet play taps. In honor of my friends across the street, I have designed the a new mural.

Grid Design: The Golden Section

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:38:26 GMT

Sometime back I read an article by Mark Bollton covering the ins and out of grid design. His manner of explaining the topic was more approachable than my first exposure to the theory;

I Reinvented my Resume!

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:07:23 GMT

A new Web 2.0 start up aims to reinvent the resume by providing its members tools to show case their talent. I was impressed so I signed up, and created Kris Steigerwald's Visual CV. Best of all, they allow you to upload videos or embed video from other sites such as you tube.

I don't go near this one...

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:25:39 GMT

Hardly an upset with this guy... watch and enjoy.

Ruby on Rails Ajax free of Helpers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:46:12 GMT

My experience with rails has been new and delightful, save working with the front end. Rails comes packed with helper methods some that write quick and cool Ajax methods. They follow rails conventions and do not require a strong grasp of JavaScript to get in motion.

However, if you are a stickler for standards and have a passion for valid clean markup… these helpers can leave a bit to be desired. I have been in the habit of binding js events directly to elements over the element itself. It pleases me to see markup free of inline styling, event handlers and inline js scripts. The simpler and more descriptive the markup the better.

IE7 Option Tag width

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:14:23 GMT

Ever notice in ie7 the option tag width will not match the size of the select element? There really is no good way around this other than fooling the element to spread eagle and back. The script below will do all that for you… Unobtrusively condensed in a singleton pattern.

Ruby on Rails Complex Forms Demo App

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:18:34 GMT

This is news to me… and right in time. Jeff Dean posted a sample app on git hub which explores various examples of complex html forms that involve multiple models with complex associations. Espically helpful if your hoping to work with checkboxes or radio buttons.

http://github.com/zilkey/complex_forms_demo_app/tree/master

Not an everyday task...

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:30:40 GMT

Over the years I have acquired a heaping pile of black and white eps files. I love them... they are simple little pieces of art, easy to re-purpose for all kinds of designs. However finding a file that would fit a design was never so easy. Each file was stored away into multiple subfolders having a numeric naming convention which repeated by folder. There were close to 500 or so folders with about 12-50 files per folders. Since all file names were numeric the only one way to find what you were looking for was browsing with adobe bridge. Clicking in and out of folder just became a pain.