I never thought I would be enjoying a cup of Starbucks coffee in a Microsoft branded cup while sitting at Microsoft’s Mountain View compound. Why am I here, you ask? For the first annual west coast jQuery conference! P.S. I am posting this on my Android phone so please ignore any glitches.
I recently uploaded a very basic business card style website to www.erikphipps.com (which I forgot I even owned!). The idea came to me when a co-worker sent me a link to a one page website for one of the people behind Vimeo (and other websites). I did some research and found a whole bunch of [...]
I just got some new business cards! I plan on using the new logo design and colors on my blog some time in the near future after I wrap up a freelance project.
I needed a fail-proof Internet Explorer 6 JavaScript sniffer and it seemed like everything I Googled warned of possible scenarios where it could possibly not work. Then It struck me that since I only needed to detect one version of Internet Explorer I could make a very simple script using Internet Explorer’s conditional comments. I [...]
I just had a fleeting moment of stress! It began when I decided to Google the title of my most recent blog posting, Test driving Internet Explorer beta 2 developer tools. When the results came back, there were many postings with similar titles (to be expected) but one that stood out sent a shock wave [...]
Well, it’s been a long time coming. I’ve had thetransient.com domain for nearly a decade now and it’s served me well. I haven’t done it any favors, however, by letting it stagnate as the web grows by leaps and bounds all around it. By launching this blog, not only will I give thetransient.com the fresh [...]
