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Why “you must use Linux to be a ‘real’ programmer” is such a myth
My husband, who works as a network engineer at a university, told me his student interns peer pressured a new intern into installing Linux OS on the windows machine just so he could be a “real”...
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Lazy image placeholders that respect the actual image aspect ratio
While lazy loading of the images has been used by many performance conscious websites, the placeholder images are not usually the focus. Having placeholder images that respect the actual proportion of...
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Dynamically generate svg and converting it to gif in drupal
For the recent baby names project, we have a need to generate a baby name graphic on the fly to be used for pinterest. The corresponding graphics designed are very vector friendly. My first thought was...
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Holiday Wallpapers
I created some new wallpapers for you to enjoy if you feel like give your desktop a fresh look during the holidays. 1920×1200 wallpapers 1600×1200 wallpapers
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Javascript ES6 Highlights
Total credit to the ES6 quiz that you should take but I’m creating a poster version of the information shared on the quiz. I love straight forward code examples for learning. As a Java developer, these...
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Maven project with separate poms and build processes
At work we are trying to get our drupal php code into a workflow that’s more familiar to the java community. Build -> Upload artifact -> Deploying by downloading the corresponding artifact. Our...
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Flexbox center cropped responsive images align justified
Some of you might know that I’m one of main developers who worked on the bhg.com site relaunch of 2015. I enjoyed applying many responsive techniques to the website. I used freely the relative new...
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Yoga poses that help my lower back pain
I’ve been doing yoga for a few years. Because of my work I sit too much and this is causing too much pressure for my lower back. I experience lower back sore & pain from time to time. Here are...
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CSS3 animation, absolute centering, align background-image right and bottom
I was playing with codrops dialog effects and learned the following: New absolute centering using flexbox .dialog { position: fixed; diplay: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } Add...
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Stress at work
In the past when I was stressed out at work due to certain situations or people, I often swept it under the rug. Recently I started challenging myself to deal more directly with my emotions. Unresolved...
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Guest Post: Breaking The Low Mood Cycle
Originally posted on Captain Awkward: Hello friends! It’s Elodie Under Glass here with a guest post on Low Moods. I particularly want to thank Quisty, Kellis Amberlee and TheOtherAlice for their...
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Responsive Selection/dropdown idea
Placeholder text in selection/dropdown cannot be manipulated by CSS right now. Sometimes we’d like the placeholder text to change based on how wide the container is. Goal To allow the same HTML look...
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Oracle query top N results order by
Why is oracle query with any pagination flavor always so whacky? Just wanted to return the top N results ordered by a field you have to do select * from ( select m.*,rank() over (order by m.msg_post_dt...
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Chrome Mobile Emulation in Action
Step 1 Open a regular website in Chrome. Step 2 Right click -> Inspect Element to bring up the develop tools. Step 3 Click on the settings Icon Verify the mobile emulation is turned on under...
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Screen scraping census baby name data with nodeJs, cheerio(jQuery) and promises
—->My Soure Code<—- Goal Screen scrape census baby names data for the 51 states and produce a single CSV file. These data are in html table via sites such as...
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HttpFox helps filter http requests
Was looking for something for work that filters all of the requests on a page. Finally spotted the HttpFox plugin that pretty closely achieves what I need. Install the plugin and click on the tiny icon...
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How to Help Others Without Compromising Yourself
1. You can’t help someone who is not taking responsibility for helping themselves. Sometimes, no matter how much you give, the other person doesn’t seem to meet you halfway. It seems like the more you...
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How I made tiny carousel swipeable
On parents.com, we previously used the jquery plugin tiny carousel to display various lists of links mostly used to track pregnancy month/week: For example: The concept is easy. You have a list of...
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