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Firefox missing cursor 15 Jan 2008 | 12:30 pm
I recently came across an annoying bug that took me a while to sort out. Say I’ve got a DIV containing a TEXTAREA. If the TEXTAREA has focus, then I hide that DIV, my cursor will not be visible in an...
Sparkline Creation : SVG and Javascript 14 Dec 2006 | 01:38 pm
Sparklines are little mini-graphs conceived and popularized by Edward Tufte. He defines them as intense, simple, word-sized graphics. An example of a sparkline might be: A bunch of information and di...
zen - 456 - vita - beauty - dhoh - stop - simple - apart 29 Jun 2006 | 06:17 am
I wrote the following “observation” a few months ago, then didn’t publish it, thinking “who am I to pick on these folks”, and “the content is still helping”. But today I reread it, and went back to th...
Update Adobe Updater Update 20 Jun 2006 | 11:21 am
I just couldn’t resist. I just did a new install of Adobe CS2 on the mac, and got this message: Doesn’t it seem like I’m about to get stuck in an endless update loop…? That goes down as one of the b...
Macromedia (adobe) licensing - who needs a user base? 3 Jun 2006 | 10:31 am
I’m pretty lucky. My office just bought me one of the new MacBook Pros. I’ve been a mac user at home forever, but the office is all Windows - till now. So I’m switching a bunch of apps from Windows to...
Photoshop - how to make smooth curved lines 29 Apr 2006 | 10:32 am
One of the most frequently asked questions about photoshop is “how do I make a simple, smooth curved line?”. If you’ve got a tablet, there might be other ways, but with a mouse it can seem a little tr...
Microsoft Word - 392 septendicillion options? 19 Apr 2006 | 05:24 am
I had a setting go screwy on MS Word the other day. It took me 20 minutes of tinkering through the options to get things righted again. While in the options (Tools -> Options…) I had a look around. T...
Scrollable DIV (and Blog Organization) 28 Mar 2006 | 02:36 pm
I’m in the process of rewriting my site. As a result the examples in this article are a little wonky. The links to the external files are fine. Sorry for any confusion - I’m working as fast as I can… ...
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA - Development Tool Review 24 Mar 2006 | 10:29 am
For a while now I’ve been doing the design and front-end development for an organization that runs a Java backend. The Java developers use a development tool called IntelliJ. Since we had licenses, I ...
Flash Counter / Odometer 24 Feb 2006 | 12:59 pm
I’m working on a website that needed a flash counter/odometer. No, not to count page hits - that would be so 1997. This is just a counter to make a marketing point. (It’ll be live sometime next week)....
