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Extending CSS Spriting
CSS Spriting is a technique for speeding up the load times for your website by reducing the number of HTTP requests for images to the server. On Yahoo’s best practices website, they say: “CSS Sprites...
View ArticlesIFR to @font-face Site Conversion
Recently, I was browsing CSS Beauty and noticed quite a few articles on the CSS3 @font-face rule. I have always been somewhat unhappy with sIFR – I just don’t like having Flash files as header text....
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Helo Sleeping
I caught our kitty, Helo, on camera the other day – all stretched out. I posted it up on icanhascheezburger‘s website here. Here’s a picture of Helo when he’s a bit better composed: and here’s our...
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Theme Hospital is CorsixTH
I was reading a submission on Reddit the other day about a screenshot of Roller Coaster Tycoon. That screenshot drew me into a Wikipedia wormhole that started with the article on Roller Coaster Tycoon...
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Amigurumi Katamari
Recently, I got an award at work known as the “Superman Award”. It is a Superman action figure that collects a new accessory with each recipient. And at this point, it has collected quite a bit of...
View ArticleIt may be time to update your reset stylesheets
If you’re using Grails and the Grails UI plugin’s autocomplete feature, you may have noticed all of your textboxes have disappeared in Chrome 10. This is thanks to Chrome 10 adding a new default...
View ArticleTTF to EOT and @font-face
For those of you who followed my tutorial on using @font-face, you will remember that generating the proprietary font file for Internet Explorer was not an easy task. Now, there are websites and...
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Setting up ASP.NET MVC 4 and Twitter Bootstrap 3 with LESS
When setting up an ASP.Net MVC 4 application recently, I decided to add Bootstrap 3 into the project. The default NuGet package for Bootstrap (Twitter.Bootstrap) includes the source and the minified...
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