I’m sitting here working on a JavaScript heavy web app, and it has a few forms that are large enough that the placeholder attribute available in HTML 5 was the way to go. Only catch, not all browsers support placeholder so I needed something to fall back on.
What I normally do is put a label on top of the field, and that seemed a pretty good solution to fallback on if placeholder isn’t supported.
Last week I was just about to pull the trigger and order the bluetooth Wacom Intuos 4 tablet that I’ve been wanting for a while…
If you’ve written more than a couple of WordPress plugins odds are good you’ve copied and pasted the plugin sample readme.txt file into your project. Just sat down to start on my 7th plugin and figured there had to be a better way than Googling for the template, opening it, copying, and pasting.
NetBeans makes it pretty easy though by creating a template.
Not that it happens often, but every now and then I actually clean off my desk. It’s one of those things that I sort of…
Need a way to automatically schedule posts for X number of days past your current latest post?
On another blog I write a handful of posts at a time and schedule them out over several days. But I have to keep going back and forth to the post list to check dates. This plugin adds a link to the new post page that will automatically set the date for the post you’re working on based on the last post on your site. It’s a subtle little link. Take a look at the screen shot to the right. Notice where it says ‘Auto’ next to ‘Edit’. Clicking that will run an Ajax call that will get the next date.
Around the end of last year I started using OpenX to take care of ad serving on a couple of my sites. The intent was that I could switch things around much more quickly to see what’s working and what’s not.
Now that it’s been a few months I decided to go and look at one of my sites and see how AdSense and Amazon Affiliate ads compared. It wasn’t even close.
File this under “how did I not already know this.” I put together quite a few PowerPoints and Word documents explaining how to do labs.…
Bit of a duh moment after finally finding a solution to this. What I needed was a way to print a single frame out of…
Looking to create a simple wine glass in Blender 2.5/2.6? Yes, there’s quite a few steps. But it’s remarkably easy to do.
First step is to create the default cube. Right click to select it and press either Delete or X to remove the cube from the scene.
Next we’re going to go in to the top view by pressing num-7. I also went ahead and switched to ortho view by pressing num-5, although that’s not necessary.
Admit it, you’ve played an online game while at work. And odds are very good it was written in Flash / ActionScript. We’re going to cook up a very simple Flash project that might serve as the start of a game. Keyword here is simple though. We’re not going to worry about anything except for a scrolling background and a space ship, with maybe a laser at the end. But it should be enough to get you started with some basics.
The Project
First step is to create an empty Flash ActionScript file. We’re going to go with ActionScript 3 with a stage size at the default 550x400px just to keep it easy.
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