Slow internet Ubuntu 11.10 Wireless
So this issue seems to be a new one in the latest versions of Ubuntu, a slow internet connection is a real pain in the ass but after relentless network testing and checking I have every update...
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LESS CSS effects bootstrap
LESS CSS is possibly the greatest thing to happen to any front end developers job, it handles mixins, parameters and on top of all of that it can be play a big role on the performance of your site with...
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CSS pre-processing with LESS
While I spend much of my time elbow deep in a mixture of PHP, ColdFusion and .NET I probably spend about 60% of my time cringing at the state of old websites CSS and writing new stylesheets and I try...
View ArticleDecommissioning the dFramewerk
Well, with a long face and heavy heart I have decided to no longer support the dFramewerk; no longer actively develop it and no longer promote it. I have closed the website and will be letting it the...
View ArticleColdfusion dateformat with day suffix
I wrote a function for this since it was incredibly annoying that the built in functionality doesn’t have an option for it… <!--- @author ~ Dave Mackintosh @Description ~ Formats the date with the...
View ArticleNew Album Details
I have new details confirmed for my new album The album will be called 13 There will be 9 tracks listed below in order. 3 6 7 9 11 13 33 39 77 Odd album and track names but to some people they mean a...
View ArticleWindow load vs document ready
I see this issue all the time and perhaps even more worryingly I see the use of setTimeout() in places to defer listeners. If you don’t need to wait for images/scripts to load use: (function ($) {...
View ArticleIncorrect usage of html5 makes me a bit sad
Firstly, all go read https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an_HTML5_document and http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/ for gods sake.. He WILL smite you for not reading them...
View ArticleCSS3 do’s and don’ts
I’ve been seeing a lot about the Opera webkit craze recently and its gotten quite annoying because they’ve been pushed into it by people claiming they know CSS3 and how to appropriately code for mobile...
View ArticleWhy I didn’t use a framework for ubui
Why didn’t you use a framework for ubui’s core? Good question buddy! So here’s the answer; When I was thinking about how I should build ubui I had loads of ideas (and most of them were pretty zaney!)...
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