New Software, Old Images (iTunes 10 gets a new logo)
Last week that Apple said that the new iTunes 10 logo has dropped the CD. This logo change received much…
Bugs that Drive me Crazy
In the “bugs that drive me crazy” category are two that I’ve recently discovered when I upgraded to the new…
The Magical Attribute Reader
Here’s a common pattern and good rails thing to know about: read_attribute(:symbol) Basically what it does is read the attribute…
Using Paperclip to save the width and height of the attachemnt
When using Paperclip to save an attached image, how do I get & store the dimensions of the image? Best…
NY Tech Meetup August 3rd, 2010
This is the 76th NY Tech meetup; September is going to be the 6th year anniversary. Nate has a little…
CSS Positioning
CSS Positioning cheet-sheet. You actually need quite a bit of understanding of CSS to find this useful. I recommend David Sawyer…
New York Tech Meetup July 6, 2010
Usual round-up of tonight’s NYTM with my brief annotations. Betterfly.com – A personal betterment site. “Learn look and feel better.”…
Kill IE 6
OK, so I feel it is officially time to kill IE 6 and below. IE 6 has been the bane…
New York Tech Meetup June 9th
The most dramatic thing at tonight’s New York Tech Meetup was, far and away, Scott Heifferman, founder of Meetup.com, smashing…
Text overflowing
Some experimentation with the text-overflow property. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”><html> <body><div style=”border: 1px solid red; max-width: 400px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:…