Tag Archives: web development
Dilbert on Coding
Dilbert is a comic that I check nearly everyday. This one was published on Dilbert.com on 10/10/10, and it’s one that I had to mark as a favorite on my iPhone app.
Posted in Apps, iPhone, Miscellaneous, Web Design
Also tagged apps, code, comics, iPhone, mobile
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Nested Lists – Web Development 101
Recently I was debugging a problem on a site I’m developing. As it turns out the issue dealt with a script I was using for the site navigation, which was an unordered list of links for the pages of the site. The list contained nested lists that were links for sub-sections of the site. Unable to come up with a quick fix on my own after going through my code, I turned to a web development technical forum for assistance. After the first response, I found myself wishing I had spent a little more time looking for the answer on my own.
Posted in Web Design
Also tagged code, design, nested lists, technical, unordered lists, user forums
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Web Design Lessons Learned from Changing My Air Filter
Last week I finally got around to changing the air filter in my central A/C unit. It was way overdue for a new filter. Changing the filter is a task that I absolutely hate. It’s something that I have to prepare for both physically and mentally. Physically because I have to dress for the journey, wearing pants and an old shirt with long sleeves to protect myself from the unknown. Mentally because if I don’t put myself in Indiana Jones mode, I may not return from the Temple of Doom that is the crawlspace under my house.
From MS Excel to HTML
Out in the real world, there are few people that have to work with a computer that have never used Excel. For most it’s function is to store long lists and basic record keeping. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of today’s Excel users don’t even know what an Excel function is. For me, learning how to use functions to manipulate the data I was working with started teaching me to think like a web developer.