Pretty radio buttons and checkboxes
Philip Howard has a nice tutorial on creating pretty radio buttons and checkboxes using CSS and Javascript. Nice work Philip. Hat tip to CSS Beauty.
The Angular Mini-Book is a
guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and
deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.
Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.
For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.
The JHipster Mini-Book is a
guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring
Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.
This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.
10+ YEARS
Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.
RECENT ENTRIES
- Farewell to the 2024-2025 Ski Season
- Paradise in Puerto Rico
- 2024 - A Year in Review
- Life Update: New Job, Same House, and Same Awesome Family!
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
- Happy Birthday, Jack!
- Farewell to the 2023-2024 Ski Season
- My Marvelous Road Trip to the Utah JUG
- A Delightful Trip to Devnexus
- Funemployment 2024
HowTo set the default submit button on a form
Howard has a nice little trick for setting the default submit button on a form. Basically, you just put the default button first, and then use style="display: none" to hide it. For the most part, I haven't had any issues with putting the default submit button first (i.e. "Save"), but I have noticed an issue when developing wizards (b/c "« Previous" is likely to be first). Nice tip Howard.
Avoiding too many classes in your HTML/CSS
Avoiding Classitis: A nice tutorial on reducing the amount of classes in your code for easier site maintenance. Hat tip to CSS Beauty.
The Color Schemer Gallery
I've been using Color Schemer for a couple of years now. As a result, I'm signed up for their mailing list. Today they announced a cool new feature on their site:
 | Color Schemer Gallery is a brand new online community where Color Schemer users can share and manage color schemes created with Color Schemer. Now finding the perfect color scheme is as easy as browsing the Color Schemer Gallery! » Show me more color schemes! |
You have to purchase Color Schemer Studio in order to import these locally, but I'd say it's worth $50 if you're color-matching challenged.
Better Date Input
JSCalendar is my pop-up calendar of choice these days, but I have to admit this better date input demo is very cool. It'd be sweet if you could combine the two. Hat tip to fiftyfoureleven.com.
Round Squares with CSS
Want to create squares with rounded corners - and only use CSS? If so, you might want to checkout the CSS Rounded Box Generator. Source: CSS Beauty.
Color Scheme Generator and Fade Anything Technique
I don't know where I learned about these, but they're pretty good.
- Color Schemes Generator - a nice tool for developing sites and matching colors. I've also used Color Schemer in the past. The nice thing about Color Schemer is it has a desktop client version available.
- Fade Anything Technique - a cool technique for showing recent changes in a web page.
XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples
From the AppFuse mailing list, I learned about XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples, a site that has "code snippets and proof of concepts". Subscribed.
Time to learn more about Podcasts
Now that I'm commuting to work everyday, I have 15 minutes each way on the Light Rail to read, listen to music or whatnot. I've been reading Tapestry in Action, but I think I'd like to get into Podcasts. I know a little bit about them, but not a whole lot. In the ideal world, I could subscribe to a podcast's feed in iTunes and everytime I'd synch my iPod - it would grab the latest podcast for a particular site. However, doesn't seem to be the case. As far as I can tell, I have to subscribe to someone's site with a podcast, then manually click on their "mp3" link - and then synch it to my iPod.
Is that how podcasting works? If so, it seems like there's a lot of user effort required. I suppose I can do the manual click-n-listen at work, but I'd prefer a more automated solution for the commute.
P.S. The bagel shop downtown (16th and Cali) has free wi-fi - sweet!
Later: I'm over it. I tried listening to a podcast while writing for the last 20 minutes. It's boring compared to music. I guess I'm not geeky enough.
Did you make the list?
It would've been nice if the Spread Firefox team had let folks know before the Firefox Ad was published. But oh well, shit happens. At least I made the list (PDF).