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My blog covers a variety of topics and interests. As I see what the interest is on specific subjects or arcticles I'll narrow it down. My blog will mostly cover geeky topics, anything from computers, to politics to video games.
Soft Tabs vs. Hard Tabs
Published: 1:09pm September 28th, 2011
Updated: 1:36pm September 28th, 2011
There's an ongoing debate amongst developers as to which is better: soft or hard tabs. Why does this matter? In a collaborative work environment everyone needs to use the same kind and size of tabs to avoid messy differences between different peoples' code. Many argue that soft tabs are the best solution. I argue that hard tabs are better, and here's why...
Why Routers Suck
Published: 11:16pm May 13th, 2010
Updated: 4:20pm August 20th, 2011
Yes, routers suck. Very much. I recently had a bad experience with them and had to go on a rant about it. If you had a bad experience too or just want to hear about mine, read on.
Table Cell Vertical Alignment and Floated Elements
Published: 2:12pm March 21st, 2011
Updated: 4:19pm August 20th, 2011
I've noticed that if you have a table cell with some floated block elements in it, text in the other cells doesn't properly align to top even if you use the valign attribute set to "top" on those cells. I found the solution with CSS, and thought I'd share that with everyone with some screenshot examples.
Mobile Safari Background Image Scaling Quirk
Published: 3:46pm May 27th, 2010
Updated: 4:17pm August 20th, 2011
Mobile Safari on the iPhone, iPod and iPad does a great job of scaling websites to fit the viewport, including scaling of CSS background images. It does result in some minor visual artifacts (often thin lines at the edges of images), but all in all makes full websites very usable.
However, I discovered a strange quirk on a site I am currently working on and how to work around it, so I thought I would detail my findings here.
Finally, you can transfer files to/from your iPhone via USB
Published: 3:27am August 11th, 2010
Updated: 4:15pm August 20th, 2011
I just noticed with the current iTunes, and maybe with iOS 4 but not sure if it's dependent on that, that you can use iTunes to transfer files to/from your iPhone if you have a file sharing app installed. Woohoo! It seems a bit limited, since you can seem to browse folders on the phone only the top level, but at least you can do the transfers right there in iTunes over the USB cable.
