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Chicken Fortress

July 5, 2011

Finally the Chicken Fortress is complete! The girls slept in their coop for the first time the night before last, up until then we put ’em in a bin and brought them in. I’ve delayed putting up any pics until it was in fully operational.  

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PNG Transparency In Explorer Without Hacks

July 20, 2008

png8alpha is a droplet app that converts 24bit pngs to 8bit pngs with transparency intact.  These images render normally in modern browsers and IE6 treats them like gifs.  Graceful degradation for pngs! UPDATE: The latest build is png8alpha-02 (notes) Usage Drag and drop a 24bit PNG image onto the application and it will be reduced […]

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Cross-Browser Scaleable Font Sizing

June 6, 2008

Pixels are great, consistent and easy to understand. Explorer can’t scale them though. This means if older people or those with large displays want to increase the font size they’re stuck. This is somewhat less relevant for Explorer 7 with its zoom feature. Maybe when IE6 has dwindled away I’ll switch. In the meantime… I […]

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Configure Aptana to ignore CSS Hacks

April 18, 2008

Aptana is a client-side web development IDE shipped as both a standalone app and Eclipse plugin. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors with code completion and validation. Document your JS with Javadoc like syntax for inline context help. Supports major JS libraries. It’s a pain that MooTools uses NaturalDocs, so no IDE love for me with […]

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