Archive for June, 2006
eon8.com — WTF!?!
Friday, June 30th, 2006

UPDATE!!! Eon8 has been deployed!! Read about it here!!
So, browsing online tonight, I ran across eon8.com. If you ask me, the whole thing kinda creeps me out. But then again, I’m somewhat of a conspiracy theorist.
Ok, so here’s what I’ve gathered from different sources on the internet:

The site includes a countdown [...]

Correcting the 2 pixel difference in the width of a div in IE and Firefox.
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is one I struggled with for a long time. The menu at the top of my site was always giving me trouble. It would always be two pixels off when I looked at it in firefox vs. IE. This is because IE screws up the box-model. I won’t go into [...]

100% height divs
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is a problem I ran into recently while working on a new website. How do you make a div extend the full length of the browser window? This used to be the domain of tables (yuck!), but CSS comes to save the day. Here’s the code:

html, body {
/* We’ll [...]

Centering content using CSS
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

This is an often asked question:
How do I center stuff on my website without using tables?
The answer is amazingly simple. It also validates as correct CSS, and best part of all… it doesn’t use tables!
Here is the CSS:

body {
/* We’ll make sure IE centers the stuff properly. */
text-align : center;
}

#wrapper [...]

New Digg v3 Launched
Monday, June 26th, 2006

It’s was live just right now. The midi was fun to hear.
Ok, so I found a bug in Digg v3. Try clicking on hidden comment. When the comment is shown, everything looks fine. If you try to hide the comment again, the body of the comment and EVERYTHING below it disappears. [...]

AIM Client using AJAX?
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Do you think it is possible to create an AIM client using Perl and AJAX? On the x10hosting forums someone started a thread about creating an online AOL Instant Messenger client. He cited WebAIM.net and AIMonPSP.com.
I then realized that Perl has functionality for connecting to AOL’s servers. I once made an AIM [...]

Vincent Ferrari talks to Matt Lauer about Cancelling AOL (VIDEO)
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Here is a follow up to the post I created about Vincent Ferarri; the guy who tried to cancel his AOL account. Wow. This has hit the big time. Matt Lauer interviewed him about his ordeal with AOL. After watching the video, I think Vincent presented himself very well. It [...]

New 3D Way to Desktop
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

This is some amazing technology. I saw this and I was in awe of what this guy has done. Simply stunning.
Reading the comments on Digg and YouTube, I get a sense that many people think that this is a waste of time. What they don’t know is that this is a step [...]

Wow! You're really doin' that!
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

So I think I may be in over my head…. Night Light is turning out to be a bigger challenge than I thought it would be. You could definitely say I hit a dead-end. While I do have a functional system, it’s not totally complete. The one major factor is the [...]

Some interesting projects on the horizon
Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Since it’s the summer, I have some free time on my hands. With all this free time, I have been hatching a few ideas in this big head of mine. I don’t know where they come from, but I think they could be useful, and I think it might be cool to start [...]