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Border radius inset or inverted rounded corners

At work today I was asked if it was possible to make inverted rounded corners on an element using CSS3, and it was a fun little challenge.  I thought maybe I would find that border radius has an...

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Ann Arbor Give Camp

I spent last weekend at the Ann Arbor Give Camp, hosted by Washtenaw Community College, creating a website for a local charity, along with 60 other web professionals.  I posted a full write-up of my...

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Become an Iconoclast, be irreplaceable. Self-Engineer.

Two of the takeaways from the 1DevDay Detroit conference 11/17/2012. I wrote up my thoughts and takeaways on the 1DevDay Detroit conference for the Enlighten blog, and you can find the post here:...

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JavaScript Resources

There are a ton of free or low cost resources for learning or improving JavaScript skills, and since I had recently gathered some together, I wanted to post them here for anyone to benefit from them....

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Setting up WordPress for a simple blog

Looking for a place to post your thoughts?  Want to distribute information about a hobby or something you are knowledgeable about on the web?  Setup a blog using WordPress.  I don’t generally recommend...

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Refection of 2012; Planning for 2013 – My 4 C’s

Ah, the end of the year.  Looking back and reflecting; looking forward and planning.  It’s a time when you can put the past in perspective and the future starts to come into focus.  In 2013, I’ll be...

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How to learn to develop web sites

First – learn HTML/CSS. You’ll do these in tandem, as you need both to do anything. Don’t pay attention too much the the version #’s like HTML5/CSS3 – just learn the basics and the rest will come with...

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Mime-Types for font-face files

I wanted to add this quick reference to the proper way to setup mime-types for @font-face here.  Thanks go to Mike Kormendy for his blog post about these, and his answer on Stack Overflow to a similar...

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Kalypto – jQuery plugin for customizing checkbox and radio button form elements

I’m happy to announce the first public version of Kalypto (former working name, replaceRCInputs) through GitHub: Demo page here: http://localpcguy.github.com/Kalypto/ Code here:...

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Removing (Google) CDN version of jQuery from Html5 Boilerplate?

I recently added a pull request to Html5 Boilerplate to remove the use of the Google CDN for loading jQuery.  Little did I know that it would stir up some great debate about whether using a CDN,...

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Internet Explorer 9 & 10 CSS bug with overflow-y?

I ran into an interesting problem, maybe a bug, in Internet Explorer 10 (and IE9) today.  Basically, if I had the following styles applied to the HTML tag, and then collapsed sections of the page with...

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Facebook Feed Dialog vs. Share Link Dialog

Facebook has 2 relatively simple ways to let you add share links to your website that you can style to match your website.  I don’t count the Like Button, which although easy to setup, doesn’t allow...

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Leap Motion Lightning Talk

I gave a quick 5-10 minute lightning talk at the Ann Arbor .Net Group tonight about the Leap Motion.  It was a brief introduction to the device and it’s capabilities, as well as a couple of demos. The...

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Error using SquishIt and an Ektron control together

Earlier at work I ran into a conflict between SquishIt (which is a great utility for .Net for concatenating and minifying your CSS and JavaScript files, more info) and an Ektron control (Ajax...

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INP Presentation

I gave a presentation for the Washtenaw Community College INP 150 class, the slides are available at the following URL: http://local-pc-guy.com/wccinppres/ The post INP Presentation appeared first on...

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Getting the number of Facebook shares and/or likes of a URL

So…you want to display the number of times your url has been shared/liked on Facebook, but you don’t want to just use the Like Button with the count?  I don’t blame you, while I use the Like button...

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SelfConference, chance to learn and to speak

A big thank you to the organizers of SelfConference ’14 in Detroit, MI.  It was held at Cobo, in the recently revamped section, and it was quite nice!  The conference had some great sessions and I had...

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Support Net Neutrality, tell the FCC!

PSA: Less than 14 hours to go. That’s how long we have to get pro-Net Neutrality comments submitted to the FCC in front of their first comment period deadline (midnight Tuesday) — and save the Internet...

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Blog theme updated

Getting back to posting more often, and wanted a simple but clean theme. Found one that will do the job with minor customization. While I have the capacity to build my own theme from scratch, I’d...

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Vanilla JavaScript vs. Framework Functions

Had a quick conversation at work today about whether or not it was good to use built-in framework functions for tasks that are simple to write in vanilla JavaScript. For example: angular.isFunction(fn)...

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