The other day I needed to produce a web page which had a full height and width layout. It also needed header, left hand navigation and main content areas.
There would be no guarantee that the navigation or the main content would be taller than the screen so I needed to fix the layout to the height of the browser. I also wanted it to be cross browser compatible and sizeable by the user if it was used as a popup.
While watching a YouTube video today my computer started to show the usual Flash symptoms. The system fan sounded like it was taking off and the CPU usage was going through the roof, it also began to heat up to the point where I could not have it on my lap.
So why do I use Google and not Bing?
I want to find the homepage for Beanstalk (Version control with a human face), so I type “beanstalk” into Google and Bing.
So today I launched a little command line application for compressing CSS files.
Daring Fireball the excellent blog by John Gruber occasionally brings sites to their knees in a digg-esk manner if he deems them worthy of a link.
From this day on, the effect will be known as being FIREBALLED. (If this has already been done or has an even more witty name its my bad!)
Update: John already uses it, Doh! Oh well back to the drawing board.
Recently the BBC have launched the iPlayer. This is a service which allows people to watch TV programs or listen to radio shows from that last 7 days again on their computer as many times as they like. That is unless they have a Mac.
So today I was trying to update my moose56.com homepage and thought I would add some javascript effects using the Mootools library.
The other day I was trying to code a back end to a simple web form. I wanted the data entered into the form to be emailed back to me. Here I describe two very simple methods to send an email from both PHP and Ruby code.
StaticMatic is a small framework for producing static web sites. It is built on top of a number of Ruby gems such as Haml and makes it possible to create totally static sites using Ruby.
I have spent a bit of time playing with StaticMatic and thought I would share some of the things I have learnt just in case anyone else has the same questions as I did.
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