I love web development. I like using new technologies, especially when it makes my job go more smoothly and produces better looking and functioning web sites. I did a little test of CSS3, just to see what all the buzz was about. Overall, I like where it’s headed, but it’s not ready for prime time yet. I will be happy when it is! Most of my observations are written up on the page, so check it out. Feel free to comment here and let me know your thoughts. Are you using it yet? Why or why not?

Check out my demo page (feel free to use a few browsers for the full effect): CSS3 Demo

I caught a hawg! I love fishing top water, and I’m fortunate that my parents have a nice pond with lots of vegetation and fish in it. Everything came together on 6/13 for this pig to get hauled in. I didn’t have a scale, and I didn’t measure it, but I’m guessing it’s in the 6-7 pound range and about 22 inches. She was really long, but not too thick since it’s after the spawn. Cocoa the dog was not harmed in the fishing expedition, but she loves to get a close up look when a fish is landed.

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I love tweaking stuff, playing with it, tinkering. Not “real” stuff that you can touch and feel, like car engines or mechanical things, but stuff on the computer. More specifically stuff involving the interwebs. So when I discovered Firefox Personas, I was thrilled. If you haven’t tried it give it a whirl! Keep reading…

I’m trying to build a network. A group of people I like to follow online. People I trust and respect. People I would want to work with one day. I want to have meaningful dialog with people, across lots of web sites. I read some ungodly number of blogs daily. I contribute via the comments when I think I can help. And now that’s frustrating me. Keep reading…

Really quick, I just discovered this, quite by accident: ctrl+[ moves the active layer down one step in the layers palette and ctrl+] moves it up one step.

I didn’t think this up myself, but I just learned it, and it seems terrifically useful. I run into this problem regularly: I have a containing element (div usually) with a few floating elements inside of it. I like to use this technique when splitting an element in half – a left half and a right half. I’ll float the left half to the left, give it a width that’s a little less than half of the outer container, float the right half to the right with the same width.

“Great,” I think to myself. Let’s ctrl+s then refresh the browser to check this pig out. Then there’s the problem… Keep reading…

My wife had a baby! Keep reading…

I’ve been uninspired by the traditional blog interface, and I have been meaning to check out a desktop blogging unit. Today, by forces in the universe, Tweetdeck passed me a good link. Based on the advice of a tweep, I downloaded and installed BlogDesk. So far, it’s been straightforward and easy to use.

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