Archive for the ‘www’ Category

Ajax tabbed content that degrades gracefully without Javascript

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Having no internet access at my new apartment has resulted in my being shockingly productive offline — writing, reading, and reworking bits of code that I might have a use for someday. One of my recent obsessions has been with tabbed content. In my opinion, every page offering tabbed content simply MUST degrade gracefully without [...]

How to get around on public transit in San Francisco

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

San Francisco public transit trip planner http://transit.511.org Next Muni (real-time updates for popular bus/train lines) http://nextmuni.com Now all I need is a Sidekick…

Illness and the internet

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Having been deathly ill with the dreaded sore throat / laryngitis / hacking-cough-preventing-sleep combination, and also having not been hard-core enough to obtain this season’s hottest super toy known affectionately as the “Wii!”, I have had ample time recently to re-discover the wonders of surfing the internet whilst consuming insane amounts of chicken noodle soup. [...]

Spam

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Recently I’ve been getting daily doses of spam posts to my BBS (hey thanks, spammers). I finally got fed up and integrated captcha into the scripts… and sure enough, no spam so far. I’d prefer to use something like Akismet for this but the captcha was a quick hack for now.

Warning to musicians: CdBaby’s Hostbaby service is a huge rip-off!

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Hostbaby is CdBaby’s hosting service. They advertise it as “web hosting for musicians” on the CdBaby website, and it’s such a horrible service that I can’t bring myself to even provide a link to it from here. Considering the free open source CMS (content management system) options out there, the fact that the whole point [...]

YouTube

Monday, June 5th, 2006

I really love YouTube. I’ve mainly been watching music videos (they even have Japanese TV music programs) and more recently anime episodes. The quality isn’t the greatest but it’s bearable, and their streaming speed is decent (though not fast enough to stream longer videos continuously as it should). But of course the key here is [...]

Rounded corners with pure CSS

Friday, April 7th, 2006

While searching for rounded corner implementations I came across a whole slew of methods and finally settled on this one: Spiffy Corners – Making anti-aliased rounded corners with CSS I like it because it works in most recent browsers, requires no images and no Javascript, and is pure CSS. The website also has a php [...]