MY BLOG BYTES
Welcome to my blog. Below is a collection of my provoking thoughts regarding technology and web design, enjoy.
Toshiba Satellite A665-S5170 Bios Password
A friend of my was unable to boot his satellite laptop and so I took a look. Turns out it had a BIOS password that was need before you could do anything. Very frustrating as you can’t even boot off Read more »»
HTML5 Dev Conf Douglas Crockford
A speech of “JavaScript Programming Style and Your Brain with Douglas Crockford”
htaccess redirect old pages to new pages
Setting up redirects can be a real pain. Here is a quick snippet that you can use. to redirect visitors from old.com/about.htm to go to new.com/about.htm. To set this up you need to be using apache and have mod_rewrite installed. Read more »»
CSS3 code generators and css selectors
I saw this post and thought it may be useful. Here are 10 of the best css3 code generators for quickly adding css3 styles to your sites. SelectorGadget is a great way to quickly select elements. Point and click to Read more »»
Do you even need to use ID’s in CSS?
Oli Studholme did an interesting post on if we should use css id selectors in css. I think the most interesting point is using roles as selectors.
Responsive Web Design Tips
Smashing Magazine did a great post on responsive web design. Here are a couple of interesting parts I saw from the article. Structured Content Stephen Hay elaborates on what is mobile and then how to design for it. You can Read more »»
CSS Media Query Gallery
I found a nice gallery of css media query based sights. Here you can see multiple sizes of different view-ports at a glance. You can then click on the image to view the site and re-size the browser window and Read more »»
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
I just watched this TED talk by Dan Pink regarding motivation and corporate america. His results are always suprising but somewhat similar. I also did a post a while back regarding our motivations if you would like to watch.
SVG Raphael Gauges
SVG has a lot of great possibilities. One that I really have enjoyed has been the use of svg gauges with Raphael. The beauty of this is the ability to change values of the gauges, charts, etc… on the fly. Read more »»
The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown
I first heard this on the big web show and it was very eye opening. (Sorry that was bad.) Sunni explains how learning, while doodling at the same time, can help you retain 30% more than just writing notes in Read more »»