I just named a rails controller class ElmoController, because it gets invoked by a tickler…
18Nov08
Signs I’ve not had enough sleep
07Oct08
Dear Mr. Designer
Generally, if you are working with an external library, such as yui, it’s not a good idea to override the css for a widget’s css class. That means that every instance of the widget will have that property, whether you want it to or not. Moreover, it means that in order to fix it, you need to find and override every instance of the widget.
‘k thx bye
13Aug08
[adjective] [gerund] websense
I hit a web filter today which makes no sense whatsoever: http://www.conditional-css.com is tripping the “entertainment” category.
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