iPhone locked to AT&T forever?
Now that the iPhone is about to celebrate its 2nd birthday, what’s gonna happen to all of the original iPhone buyers (like me)?
Here’s my point…
Most of the people that bought the 1st iPhone on June 30, 2007 and agreed to the 2-year AT&T contract will now be at the end of this term - which [...]
capitalize page titles in Wordpress
(without using a Plugin)
While working on a custom WordPress theme for a client this morning, I came across a peculiar problem. The words I was using for custom tags and categories which (in this particular theme design) get displayed in the page’s <title> in breadcrumb-like fashion, were being displayed just as they were typed in [...]
defaultValueActsAsHint for MooTools
I just got done reading a great article on Ajaxian about Thomas Fuchs’ new JavaScript creation - defaultValueActsAsHint. It’s best described in his words…
An often occuring UI pattern is “use the value of a textfield as hint what to input”. These fields all auto-clear when the user first focuses it (by clicking or tabbing it), [...]
View Source on iPhone
This is a cool little tidbit for those of you web developers that have an iPhone. A Safari bookmarklet that enables you to “View Source” for any web page while using Safari on the iPhone. A bookmarklet (in case you didn’t know) is “a JavaScript program stored as a URL within a bookmark” as defined [...]
Facebook’s platform sucks
I’ve been hearing a lot about the new Facebook application platform lately, so I decided to finally check it out over Thanksgiving weekend. I thought it might be fun to port one of the schmedley schmidgets (widgets) into a Facebook “application”. Turns out, it was definitely not fun. In fact, it was a weekend filled [...]
JavaScript email cloaking
Here’s another quick one. Below is a simple JavaScript that you can use to cloak your email address when posting it on your website. It dynamically writes the email link into the page which will thwart most spambots (server-side creation of the email link will always be a little more secure). Here’s how we do [...]
IE CSS hacks
In my web developing adventures, I’ve come across one definite truth - Internet Explorer is a big pain in the ass. Version 7 has come a long way from version 6, but it is still a bit quirky. Seeing as how I write code in a text editor (Coda is my tool of choice), I [...]
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