I’m not much of a blog-reader myself, though I’ve been trying to get into the habit of it for work purposes (gotta keep an eye out for competition!). One that I’ve started reading pretty often is Lazy Man & Money. Like the author, I’m lazy. And I like money. Today he […]
I just experineced my first conscious earthquake since moving to California. It seemed pretty mild… I think it’s pretty cool that the USGS had an almost instant feedback system with maps and data (this link). I wonder how long they’ve had that sort of functionality… the USGS might’ve been one of the first […]
Unfortunately, the Flex RTE has been back-burnered for a bit while I work on more pressing things at work. I’m currently using YUI’s tabs for something, but don’t really like them… So I’ve been tinkering around with an alternate tab-like interface. The concept is somewhere in between tabs and an accordion structure. […]
Before getting into the meat of my post, I suppose it’s all right to now mention that I’m working at a site called Piqqem. As of last week we’re no longer officially in “stealth,” but we’re not quite ready to go into full-on publicity-seeking mode yet, either. The RTE code I’ve been working […]
I was reading an article over on the New York Times website and accidentally stumbled on one of the coolest features I’ve seen on a website. In the body of the article, you can double-click on any word and a definition will pop up–anything from “science” to “Web 2.0″ to “bubble.” This is the […]
Just when I think I’m getting the hang of the whole credit card thing…
Back in June, I got a Circuit City card (well, really it’s a Chase Card) for a promotional purchase (an HDTV). Knowing full well that most cards apply payments to promotional balances instead of interest-carrying balances, I wanted to do some […]
In this post earlier this week, I set out the project goal of making the Flex Rich Text Editor control a little more user-friendly. Here’s the first bit. I’ve removed the old add link textField completely and replaced it with two new buttons: “Add Link” and “Remove Link.” The popup for the […]
I drove in to work today, meaning that I won’t have biked in every day this week. I did this for a few good reasons, though:
I needed to drop my girlfriend off at the train station (at least one of us took eco-friendly transportation to work).
My legs were pretty tired last night.
I wanted to have […]
One of my cockamamy schemes that I’ve been working on involves distributing lots of pre-paid envelopes to people who probably aren’t going to bother responding. Just out of curiosity, I thought it would be cool into getting some of those business reply envelopes so that I’d only have to pay for the ones that […]
Because of issues with the YUI Rich Text Editor, I’ve convinced the bosses that we should use a modified version of the flex RTE control. Though flex has some weird htmlText quirks, the subset of HTML it renders (bold, italic, underline, font sizes/colors, and a few more) are almost exactly the subset of HTML […]
