The patterns of blog postings and my own stressful moment

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 [...]

Test driving Internet Explorer beta 2 developer tools

I’ve been playing with the IE8 developer tools and what at first seemed like a promising new UI utility has revealed itself as rather under-whelming and run of the mill. Sure it has typical features such CSS editing and image highlighting, but where’s the state of the art, move the web forward functionality we were [...]

Unclutter your website with simple jQuery javascript show and hide

Here’s a tip to reduce clutter on a page with lots of repeating links, icons and/or elements. Say you have a list of search results on your website and each result has many action icons and links. It isn’t necessary to have to links and icons visible at all times. The non-vital content can be [...]

Space or no space between CSS selectors

CSS, xHTML and JavaScript can become very complicated, especially when code has had numerous, variously skilled developers working on it. To help understand what is going on in ever-growing code, it helps to understand the smallest details. Today my tip will be on spaces and the absence of said spaces in CSS selectors.
Scenario number one

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