Internet Explorer 6 must die!
July 21, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, software, web 2.0, windows
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As a professional web developer I have the authority to say this, Internet Explorer is a pain in the ass to support. IE 6 is the browser that shipped with Windows XP, so it was pretty wide spread. Every year on the web is like 10 years in any other industry. This makes IE 6 [...]
Web Development Rapper
June 13, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, web 2.0
The best part is that everything this guy raps about is 100% correct.
Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code
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It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter.
I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS (text [...]
How to embed YouTube Videos in HD format
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YouTube.com is now offering two video formats on their site, standard and high def (HD), but they only allow an option for you to embed the standard version. This tutorial is going to show you how to get maximum quality and take advantage of the HD videos that you embed in your blog posts or [...]
JQuery 1.3 domination through deprecation
February 19, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under javascript, software, web 2.0
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On a project I maintain, we recently rolled up to JQuery 1.3.1 from JQuery 1.2.6. Upon doing so, several things instantly broke.
I started seeing errors on lines like this:
if($(‘input[@name=username]‘).val() != “”)
I decided to check the JQuery 1.3 relase notes to see what had changed.
The first bullet point answered my problem:
The ‘@’ in [@attr] has been [...]
The Machine is Us/ing Us
January 5, 2009 by Josh Highland
Filed under internet, javascript, software, video, web 2.0
I saw this video on @KurtyD’s blog, http://daradics.com. He said that the video had a transformational effect on him. I’m going to have to agree.
Modifying MimboPro to Add Paged Navigation To Category Pages
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Recently I have been doing a lot of work with Wordpress. I love Wordpress. one of the things I like most about Wordpress is the plugins and themes.
I recently bought a copy of the MimboPro theme. Mimbo is clean and very professional. More of a CMS theme then a blogging theme, prefect for what I [...]
WordPress 2.7 is almost here!
December 3, 2008 by Josh Highland
Filed under php, web 2.0
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OMG OMG OMG! WordPress 2.7 is almost here. Here is a long list of the changes that are going to be in the latest release. I have been a huge wordpress fan for some years now. Its always treated me well. Its treated me so well that I have decided to move my main website, [...]
Auto Suggested?
October 2, 2008 by Josh Highland
Filed under Josh's Rambling, internet, web 2.0
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My friend Kalen Gibbons pointed this out. Insanity if you ask me.
kids these days…
September 3, 2008 by Josh Highland
Filed under comic, funny, internet, web 2.0
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