Assigning a CSS class to a dynamically created DOM element
I recently discovered that Internet Explorer and Firefox don’t agree on the possibilities of assigning a CSS class to a dynamically created DOM element (created via JavaScript) using the “setAttribute”...
View ArticleDOCTYPE affects iframe scrollbar styles
An application I am currently working on has been specifically targeted towards Internet Explorer and a technical design requirement is that the browser window the application is being run in is a...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Launches
While it is admittedly early to be talking about a full-blown review, I’d like to at least take a moment to discuss one of the most significant browser releases in recent history. As someone who has...
View ArticleHow To Have Multiple Domains Using 1&1
If you read my other post, you know about the problems I have had getting a client set up with multiple domains hosted under the same 1&1 account. 1&1′s decision to market their hosting as...
View ArticleMaking jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Play Well Together
This one caused me a few headaches tonight, so I figured I could throw something on the blog in the hopes that Google would lead someone to what turned out to be a less than logical solution, but a...
View ArticleGoogle Calendar .NET API – HTTP 417 Error
I never even knew what a 417 error was until today. Apparently it’s an “Expectation Failed” error. It’s rare, to say the least. In my 15+ years of working with HTTP I’ve never come across it. I had...
View Article10 Ways To Suck At Programming
I recently inherited a web app from a dirty, nasty, stinking contractor that claimed to be a competent enough programmer to be left alone to get things done. Unfortunately, we took him at his word....
View Article10 Ways To NOT Suck At Programming
Recently I wrote a therapeutic rant for myself, called “10 Ways To Suck At Programming“. The article got syndicated to some link sharing sites and picked up quite a bit of traffic and comments. The...
View ArticlejQuery, mootools and NextGEN Smooth Gallery – A tale of failure
Maybe I’m behind the ball on this, but I’ve never tried using multiple JavaScript frameworks on the same page. I’m the kind of developer who likes to stick to a framework and then make it do what I...
View ArticleMaking simplyScroll Scroll Left-to-Right
The folks over at Logicbox have written a nifty little jQuery plugin called “simplyScroll” that allows you to easily and seamlessly scroll through a collection of images with little effort. This is a...
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