Mobile Website Development

Mobile Website Development
My recent web project has been to develop a mobile website for our clients. Not a mobile app, but a mobile website. Finding information on mobile website development was not easy – a lot of info was directed toward making mobile apps, primarily for the iPhone. One good resource I found was on the yahoo...

Auto-Populating Drop Down List

Auto-Populating Drop Down List
Sometimes I write a little C# code. Not as much as I would like, but I like the challenge. Today’s challenge was to populate a drop-down list with the dates of the next 10 Wednesdays. Sounds simple enough, but I did get caught on one thing – the AddDays() method. Fortunately I found this,...

Hello IE8

Hello IE8
It’s the day I have dreaded for quite awhile: the day we start officially supporting Internet Explorer 8 at work and I have to make our sites compatible with it. I guess one good thing is the Firebug-inspired tool inside Internet Explorer We discussed discontinuing support of Internet Explorer 6, which...

Creating checkboxes in JavaScript

Creating checkboxes in JavaScript
Because I always forget how to create checkboxes dynamically in JavaScript so Internet Expoler will be happy: var i = document.createElement("input"); i.type = "checkbox"; i.className = "CheckBox"; i.id = "uniqueID"; // this is what I forget - Firefox allows .checked, IE must have .defaultChecked i.defaultChecked...

Do Women Write Better Code?

Do Women Write Better Code?
I like this article by Rebecca Buckman, Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus, and I totally agree. Not that I have worked with a lot of bad code per say, but comments sure do help. I like this: They’ll intersperse their code–those strings of instructions that result...

This is how I feel today.

This is how I feel today.

In case you have ever wondered

In case you have ever wondered
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? Well, now you know.

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