Archive for June, 2007
Seeking Help on the Internet
Friday, June 29th, 2007I know, I know. I always start these posts with some sort of long explanatory section before I get to the gist of what the post is about. I have this thing where I feel the need to tell the background whether or not others want to know about it. You’ve been warned. Two weeks [...]
Create Better HTML Tables with CSS – Part Two
Thursday, June 28th, 2007At the end of the first tutorial on creating better tables with CSS, we ended up with a nice looking table, but it can still use a ilttle improvment. If you have a lot of data in your table that stretches across the entire width of the page, or that results in a long list, [...]
I made the switch
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007I realized this evening that after years of using Internet Explorer, I’m now almost exclusively using the Flock browser. This wasn’t anything I had planned, but I like the photostream featue, the built-in blogging editor, feeds display, the snippets feature, and the overall interface. IE7 has too many annoyances that I’m too lazy to configure [...]
Useful WordPress Plugins
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007For you technical WordPressers out there, here are some plugins that I’ve found to be useful on this site: Google Analyticator – Once you get a Google Analytics account, you can use this plugin to automate placing your Analyics Javascript code into your WordPress Site pages. Preserve Code Formatting – Very useful if you want [...]
Create Better HTML Tables With CSS
Monday, June 25th, 2007For displaying lists of data, the HTML table still rules. While you can create table-like structures purely in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), browser compatibility still limits what you can do. Adobe Dreamweaver, for all of its many CSS capabilities, still favors tables when displaying lists from a database. However, using CSS you can really streamline [...]
More History with flickr
Thursday, June 21st, 2007I’m working on some coding examples with the new Dreamweaver CS3, but I’m doing those in my spare time, so it will probably be next week before I post some code and my initial thoughts on the software. Last week, “shuttersparks” (that’s the flickr username) posted a photo in the wvmemory group of the marker [...]
Josh Unleashed
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Toad’s Stool » What’s an iPhone? Josh Leeth, SCOCA Network Engineer and Gadget Freak, has a good post about all of the recent iPhone media frenzy on his brand new blog. His thesis is valid: it’s a phone. Even the folks at my favorite podcast, TWiT, are beginning to wear me out on this subject [...]
Geocaching
Monday, June 18th, 2007When I did my Geotagging podcast with Alvin he mentioned that he thought I was going to talk about geocaching. I didn’t know a thing about geocahing at that time, but with my new Garmin nuvi I’ve done it a couple of times in the past month, by putting my nuvi into Off Road/Pedestrian mode. [...]
Dapper
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Dapper is a very cool online tool that lets you create widgets from your web site. I created the Flash applet below in about two minutes using the URL to the SCOCA Training RSS feed. What is incredibly neat for schools is that I could have created the same Flash widget just by entering the [...]
flickr Genealogy Part Two
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Awhile back I posted about uses of flickr for Genealogy. When I opened my inbox this afternoon I had an email from pit-yacker who found 68 Newgate Street in Bishop Auckland, County Derry, UK, and he sent me links to two pictures he recently took where this picture was taken at the end of the [...]
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