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Posted by George Sisco on Oct 31, 2008

Short and sweet, folks. Today, our own Mike Collins asked if it’s possible to have a  sound play on a client’s home page when a user visits the site.
The short, sweet answer is yes, with these caveats:
One, no one has really agreed on the best way to do so since 1994 until today.
Two, cross browser [...]

Google: Matt’s Cell

Posted by George Sisco on Oct 24, 2008

or matt’s phone, or matt’s number, take your pick.
Go ahead. I’ll wait. Seriously. Go check.
That’s right. He’s that freakin’ cool. Kid told me last night he was thinking of selling ads on his voicemail.

What’s in a quote? That which prevent third party code to exist on a search page?

Posted by Jeffrey Li on Oct 2, 2008

(iambic pentameter? Calling all English majors, help me out here please!)

Yesterday, I encountered an interesting issue on one of our clients’ site that had a conflict with a third party service. What it came down to was an anomaly on the search results page. Those of us with a good understanding of Yahoo! stores should [...]

Basta Loader

Posted by George Sisco on Oct 1, 2008

Basta Loader, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
So, I was *in the middle* of uploading templates, and as I looked at my list, I realized I needed a couple more. What did I do? Simple. I clicked on the upload tab, chose browse, selected my templates, and clicked add.
“While it was [...]

What’s Holding the Internet Back?

Posted by Ryan Senese on Sep 18, 2008

Reference this site and you’ll see that IE6 fails the vast majority of css selector tests. “Change” seems to be a buzz-word these days, so we should, collectively, change to browsers that support new features and new technology. We can’t afford more of the same.

JS tip of the day!

Posted by Chris Martin on Sep 11, 2008

From our very own Rob Rothermel, this is definitely the way to go when it comes to error catching.

try {
// potentially error causing code
} catch (e) {}

So… this is what some of you have seen before. We can do all kinds of fun things with this from here though… The variable ‘e’ that is passed [...]

Programming styles

Posted by Chris Martin on Sep 9, 2008

Along the lines of the last post, we could also list programming styles. I believe Harm is of the “Pirate Penguin” family of programming. Personally, I subscribe to the “drunken monk” style.

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