Category Archives: Code

I received a request this week to put Census Questionnaire Centers (QAC) on a web app ASAP. In case you don’t follow the Census’ every move: Questionnaire Assistance Centers (QACs) are spaces, donated by community partners, where staff from the … Continue reading →

I’ve been on a big web design kick lately, so I thought I’d do a quick post on using @font-face for custom typography on your web page. @font-face has been around since CSS2, and the first browser to take advantage … Continue reading →

I’ve already been asked several times how I did the floating cloud bit in the header, so here it goes. Fair warning: if you were expecting some miraculous bit of coding here you’re going to be sorely disappointed. First, I’m … Continue reading →

First up in this month’s Make Smarter is a Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr, courtesy of IBM. Lucene is high performance text search engine, Solr is a search platform using Lucene, and they are both open source projects … Continue reading →

Through a lot of testing (and swearing), I’ve found the #1 thing users botch on a web application is text entry. Nothing else comes close. That seemingly innocent text box with the blinking cursor is the primary place your user-programmer … Continue reading →