Alex Jones: Web Technologist, Barbecue Acolyte, Information Junkie, Austinite

Right-click in XP on MacBook Pro

Add right-click to XP on MacBook and MacBook Pro - This should make life much easier while testing code on XP in Bootcamp, and I would assume Parallels as well.

Posted in Featured, OS X, Quick Links, Windows & Tagged: macbook pro, OS X, Windows

Eliminating the IE duplication bug

This site demonstrates a few ways to eliminate the duplicate characters bug, which is one of the most annoying issues in IE 6. The bug causes the last character(s) within a float to appear twice, the second instance being outside the float itself. This issue has stolen many hours of my life and caused more than a couple of headaches. Thanks to Jonathan Snook for the pointer.

Posted in CSS, XHTML & Tagged: CSS, internet explorer, Web Development

Instructables

As noted on the site:

Instructables is a website bought to you by the partners at www.squid-labs.com. We make a lot of stuff, for business, and for pleasure. We’ve been looking for a long time for a convenient system for documenting our how-to projects, and the things we make, but it simply didn’t exist. We decided we’d have to develop it ourself, and here it is, it will evolve as we grow to meet our own rigorous demands, and those of our users. Principal in our demands is convenience - it should take less time to document a project than it did to build it.

Posted in General & Tagged: hacks, learning

Screens around town

37signals has set up a flickr stream showing screenshots of various UIs, most of which are Web-related (tag: screensaroundtown). There are some nice components in there, though some of the shots don’t seem to fit the group, like the install window for Adium.

I like the concept for its simplicity of purpose and implementation - it’s a refreshing break from the large sites that gather cool designs from around the Web.

Found via JD on EP.

Posted in Design & UI & Tagged: ui, web design

max-width in Internet Explorer

max-width in Internet Explorer

Posted in CSS, Quick Links & Tagged: CSS, internet explorer, Web Development

Yahoo! UI Library: Fonts CSS

“The foundational Fonts CSS file offers cross-browser typographical normalization and control.” Thanks Yahoo!

Posted in CSS, Quick Links & Tagged: CSS, web design, Web Development

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop

Posted in Design, Design & UI, Quick Links & Tagged: Design, photoshop, web design

Printable Maps of the U.S.

The National Atlas provides “reference and outline maps of the United States that you can print or use online. The reference maps display general reference features such as boundaries, cities, capitals, major highways, rivers and lakes, and terrain. Outline maps showing county boundaries, State boundaries, capitals, or other basic features are also available.” The maps are provided in color, as GIFs and PDFs, but will apparently print out nicely in grayscale.

Posted in Design, Design & UI, General & Tagged: Design, History, maps

Mmmm Code Snippets

Code Snippets is an online resource, providing a central user-writable repository for chunks of reusable code. A stroll through the language-agnostic site provides a plethora of tasty bits and bytes from many programming languages and frameworks. Each snippet can be tagged and each tag can be followed via RSS. Users can comment on snippets as well, which is invaluable for anyone deciding whether or not they want to try out a piece of code.

Posted in CSS, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL, Ruby, XHTML & Tagged: CSS, JavaScript, jsp, mysql, php, Ruby, ruby on rails, XHTML, xml

Floating books

Adding a small stack of books to the invisible bookshelf hides the hardware, creating the illusion that the books are floating in place. Look ma, no hands!

Posted in Architecture & Furniture, Featured, Quick Links & Tagged: books, decoration