Category: Development


  • Recently I discovered a tip while watching a Photoshop Killer Tips video podcast (http://www.photoshopkillertips.com/), that I wanted to share with everyone. If you are using a shape selection tool (oval/box/etc) and begin to draw the shape…. if you press and hold the spacebar you can move the shape you have drawn. And then if you…

  • Well, after posting about one of the many great things I learned at The Ajax Experience (in San Francisco), I decided I needed to spend a few minutes to attempt at a summary of the event. I attended with a colleague, and we both felt that the show was very well done and extremely insightful,…

  • After attending The Ajax Experience (many more posting coming on this event), I was excited to start making use of Prototype to increase my productivity while coding various Javascript routines and Ajax apps. If you haven’t seen, or downloaded it yet, you can find Prototype Framework for Javascript at: http://www.prototypejs.org/ Probably the biggest time saver…

  • Mezer Tools

    Mezer Tools by Bayden Systems is a great utility for web developers. It provides you with an easy way to get exact screenshots as well as measuring with screen-calipers, color-grabbing, hex conversions, and generating psuedo-random text. It sits in the systray and provides the functionality that you commonly find in seperate tools/utilities. Check it out…

  • When using relative positioning the space that the element normally needs is NOT closed up as the element is positioned. However, when using absolute positioning the space that element normally needs IS closed up. And don’t forget that positioning of an element is based on the “parent” element that was also positioned, otherwise it is…