From the deep
Dec 5
CSS Variables and why you’re doing it wrong
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ~ Albert Einstein
I’m a great fan of that quote. It’s completely true that making something bigger and more complex can be accomplished by any old fool. But making that something smaller, more compact and generally speaking more refined—well now, we’re talking about a completely different kettle of fish.
Which is why I can’t browse the Internets these days without stumbling into some new fang-dangled state-of-the-art CSS-parsing-framework Web 2.0 (beta). And every time I see them I cringe. And to be honest they’re normally written in Ruby. Which answers a hell’uva lot of questions.
From the journal
From the deep
Obligatory links
Create simple UML diagrams on-the-fly
yUML is an online tool for creating and publishing simple UML diagrams. It’s makes it really easy for you to: Embed UML diagrams in blogs, emails and wikis, Post UML diagrams in forums and blog comments, Use directly within your web based bug tracking tool and Copy and paste UML diagrams into MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.
Javascript Tidy
One thing I often need to do is to tidy javascript from it’s packed state. Often to fix the developers bugs, add new features or to modify it slightly. I give you, the Javascript Tidy, a tool I couldn’t live without.
jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)
A pretty awesome slider. Haven’t tried it out yet but the new version seems pretty easy to skin, so you can style it however-the-hell you want (note: click the ‘jQuery Slider update’ link).