Found Google’s doodle today to be quite cleaver and entertaining. I just spent the past 30 minutes playing around with various combinations of feathers, hats and shoes to get little surprises. I will give you a hint as too one: Pirate hat, pirate shoes, all black feathers. I will let you discover the other ones!
Click on the picture above and play around with different combinations for a few minutes of holiday fun!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jeff P.
This week as been a bit of a slow one for me. Not to much going on as the thanksgiving holiday is fast approching. For the most part I have been keeping my self busy with performing updates to Right.com and FRX.com. I have also been working on this site a little, as well as wikiqueue in which I have been playing around with the visuals and the underlying framework to help stabilize it.
In other news I now a member of Github @jpalladino. I don’t have any repos set up but I am thinking of throwing wikiqueue up there to open it up for whoever wants to work on it can.
So that is about it as far as this week went. Not much happening and hoping for a little bit more next week.
Yesterday afternoon I completed and submitted an update to Wikiqueue. There was no major change to how the extension works but I did update the visuals to provide a little cleaner look. I am still not satified with the interface but this will do for now.
Due to a surprisingly increase of interest and use over seas I also added support for additional languages, mainly the ones that Wikipedia.org supports. Should make things easier for those users to use the extension.
I will also be looking into porting this extension to other browsers so stay tuned for more updates and releases!
With CSS 3 slowly being adopted by all the major browsers the W3C have naturally started to work on the inner workings of the CSS 4 standards. As they stand right now “Selectors level 4″ is only a working draft, meaning it is open to those who wish to provide input onto what should be included or excluded in the next release.
For those that do not know CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is the peanut butter to the HTML jelly. All websites nowadays are built using HTML, a collection of structural elements and then stylalized using CSS. You can thing of HTML being the steel frames holding a building up and the CSS being the inner decor such as the wallpaper and carpeting. So what are the Selectors then? Well Selectors are how web developers and designers access the HTML elements to style them. Selectors can be used to select a whole ground of elements or grab a very specific element. They are very powerful and essential in how websites are displayed and rendered.
With CSS 3 selectors bacame even more powerful by adding things such as pseudo class and pseudo elements and it already looks like selectors 4 will be adding even more functionality.
For more information feel free to check out the working draft of Selectors 4 here.
For more information on CSS check out this tutorial here.
Been working really hard trying to get this site up and running at 100% and I am happy to say that I am really close to it. I finally finished getting this WordPress blog integrated and styling just right. I have to say they do not make it easy on you. There are still a lot of little issue that I still need to iron out, but it is not bad for a solid days worth of work.
As far as my other work, we are experiencing the elusive “downtime” that many people talk about. It really stinks but has given me the opportunity to get this site up and running before we get flooded with more work.
So I am going to end my first post here as I need to get cracking on the little items and get this site up and running before the flood gates open again.
Cheers!