Friday, April 9th, 2010 by Thomas
Do you speak binary?
01001001 00100000 01100010 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101110 01101111
(Translation: I bet no) Try yourself. Well this is what all CPUs “speak” as you likely know.
For those of not binary native speakers we generally rely on higher level languages like C/C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript and so on to communicate with computers and [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Thomas
In our every busy lives it is common that we often short-circuit our evaluation of situations because the cost of a complex and thoughtful decision may outweigh the negative consequences of making a mistake or simply the thinking required may not be time affordable given all the other burdens we may have. Many have observed this shortcut [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010 by Thomas
When trying to build an accessible Web site it is often a good idea to put in a link for screen readers to jump over repetitive navigation elements on page and hit the content of the page. It might look something like
<div id=”skip”><a href=”#content”>Skip to content</a></div>
Next using CSS you would set #skip {display: none;} and normal users [...]
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009 by Andrew
So we went and saw the much talked about Avatar last weekend. The movie and the 3d was pretty cool, but one thing kept bugging me, the font. So they spent 300 million making this movie, yet they used a font that is free with everyone’s computer: Papyrus. It saddens me that there is a [...]
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 by Andrew
This a little something we made to spread a little holiday cheer. We hope you like it as much as we do.
http://www.pint.com/html-email/2009-holiday-email/landing-page/
Also as a special treat for the blog readers here are some holiday wallpapers:
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Friday, August 21st, 2009 by Andrew
A while back, I was trying to figure out if twitter was cool/useful/fun. So I signed up to experience all the hype myself. After a few months of tweeting, and reading tweets, I thought is had some merit and it would be cool if we could have an inter-office twitter. I tried to think of [...]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by Thomas
Google is the modern day Oracle of Delphi. Ask Google something and it tells you the answer, or at least that is how we Web commoners tend to think. If so let’s start with the basics, the things my three year old son needs to learn…the A,B,Cs.
Of course your queries may vary, where you [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Andrew
A little gift from PINT to you. Please enjoy.
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1920×1200 iPhone Black Berry Storm
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1680×1050 1920×1200 iPhone Black Berry Storm
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 by Andrew
The folks over at Mozilla have created a nice lightweight way to customize your Firefox browser. The idea is instead of creating a theme for the browser, which is very complicated and time consuming for the average user. You can make just two images and give your browser a nice facelift per your own desires. [...]
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 by Thomas
Right now I am knee deep in HTML 5, CSS 3 and all related topics to support the new edition of HTML: The Complete Reference. Usually I don’t share too much about the sausage making that goes on during one of these massive efforts, but after hearing a few comments from students I [...]
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