Category Archives: Coding
Learning Web Design: Basic CSS
CSS is the modern way to add style to an HTML web page. There are only a few fundamental concepts you need to grasp before getting started with CSS. In order of importance: How to connect CSS to HTML elements … Continue reading
Learning Web Design – Series Introduction
Starting January 27th I started teaching Web Design 1 at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. I will be producing quite a bit of content in the next few months and I’ll use this blog to … Continue reading
Learn HTML5 Series Introduction
I recently started a meetup group here in NYC called Learn HTML5 under the premise that there are “over 1 million Google searches each day by people asking what is HTML5?”. The purpose of the meetup is to answer that … Continue reading
What is HTML5?
In the last year I’ve seen an almost frantic rush of companies trying to find HTML5 developers, and subsequently a rush of developers scrambling to fill that demand. However, both sides seem unable to answer questions like, “What does HTML5 … Continue reading
JavaScript Explained: Difference Between Logical OR “||” and Bitwise OR “|”
I’m not ashamed to say today I got slammed on a JavaScript pop quiz presented to me by a curious coworker. It is the type of question you might see on a JavaScript-centric job interview conducted by someone who likes … Continue reading
“Pay Whatever and Download” jQuery Plugin
Today I want to release my very first jQuery plugin. Actually I’m not going to post it officially to jQuery’s plugin repo yet. I just want to get it out there small-time so I have a chance to tweak it … Continue reading
Configuring the EGit Plugin for Eclipse
You would hope this process was straightforward but it’s not so I’m writing this post to help Future Me again. Here are the prereqs: Install Eclipse Install Git Set up an account on GitHub, set up a local repo, and … Continue reading
How to Remove Old Eclipse Workspaces
Removing old workspaces from Eclipse is easy. I don’t know how many times I’ve run across this issue for various reasons such as: – Eclipse won’t start because it’s trying to load a workspace that contains projects that reference folders … Continue reading
Two WYSIWYG Replacement Plugins for WordPress
I’ve been doing a bit of meddling recently with another WordPress blog and have found the need to pump up my rich text visual editor. Here are a couple rich text replacement editors I have found to currently be the … Continue reading
How to Import an Existing Non-Eclipse Project Into Eclipse
I always seem to have issues organizing my projects in Eclipse. It’s really convenient to have all my projects in one workspace, but then again it adds unnecessary complication with searching the workspace, closing/opening projects, etc. Recently I’ve sort of … Continue reading
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