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My Favorite CSS3 Features You Can Use Right Now

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Fuzzy

Although generally still in draft (it’s modularized and different pieces are further along than others), CSS3 support amongst modern browsers is getting much better. Here are a couple of my favorite tricks you can use right now. First, take a … Continue reading →

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XHTML2 Bites the Dust

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Fuzzy

As reported on Slashdot and elsewhere, W3C has ended the XHTML2 working group’s charter and increased the resources working on HTML5. This effectively kills XHTML2 and places HTML5 as the defining standard for HTML content going forward. Well, once it’s … Continue reading →

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Appending Pages to a PDF with Python

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Fuzzy

One of my customers created ~950 PDF’s of….something flood and letter related. I don’t know what exactly. Hey man, I just work the shovel. Anyways, they decided to tack a disclaimer on each of them after the PDF’s were made, … Continue reading →

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Who Doesn't Like Blue Anyway?

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Fuzzy

I recently modified one of my mapping sites, Geospatial Portal, to have a nice blue theme to go along with a blue jQuery UI widget theme. I made a new logo, page background image, etc.  Blue. Who doesn’t like blue? … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loading Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Fuzzy

I’m not sure how the phrase goes exactly, but it includes the words “necessity”, “invention”, and “mother”. To say that my employer’s Internet connectivity can be spotty is a bit of an understatement. Besides frequent slowness and increasingly frequent “goneness”, … Continue reading →

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