@media2007 San Francisco
I just finished the @media2007 conference in San Francisco, and all I can say is “wow.” I was totally in over my head, which in this case is a good thing!
Vertical centering — without using tables!
Every now and then, a developer will come up against something that was SOOOO easy with table-based layouts and winds up being a royal pain with CSS-based layouts. One of these “d’oh!” moments is when you try to vertically center an element on your web page. Umm… hang on, let me rephrase that: One of these “d’oh!” moments is when you try to vertically center an element on your web page when using Internet Explorer 6.
Classes and OOP in Flash
Resources for learning about object-oriented programming in flash.
Flash and XML
Kirupa.com is a great resource for Flash tutorials, including how to use XML with Flash.
The Fonthead
A quickie blog about typography, with links to good resources.
I hate to say it…
InfoPath is a program for designing forms that are connected to a data source such as an Access database or… you guessed it… an XML document.
Online XML-to-XSD Converter
This week I needed to create an XML Schema doc for work. The XSD file would be used to validate XML files I’ll be making for my online courses. Well, being a newbie to XSD files (though not XML), I was making decent but very slow progress when a thought occurred to me: it should be possible to reverse-engineer an XML file to create an XSD file.
Today’s bit o’ knowledge: Firefox Web Developer Extension
Today I learned about chris pederick’s ultra-handy Web Developer Extension for Firefox