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HTML for Dummies, Part 2: Basic CSS Attributes and Captioned Images
i can haz caption?Photography: eva101 Does CSS frighten you? You’re in good company. There are plenty of tech-savy people who are also frightened of CSS. And thus it is up to web designers to save the...
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HTML for Dummies, Part 3: Effects with Borders and Padding, and Replacing...
Photography: iowa_spirit_walker When the CSS revolution came, it was declared: no more tables! Use divs with style! Well, that’s nice and all, since tables lead so often to nesting tag hell, but few...
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LRF to HTML: The Rough Guide
As of this writing, calibre, which can convert many things from one format to another featuring command-line tools, does not convert LRF to HTML, or indeed, to most anything else other than LRS, an XML...
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C#: Non-ideal MSDN Threading Tutorial Examples
I’m partway through the MSDN C# Threading Tutorial and, as a Java developer, have had fun breaking/refactoring their tutorial code. I haven’t yet gotten to the Mutex section, mostly because I spent...
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Head First Design Patterns: C# Remote Gumball Machine Proxy
While there is a link to C# code at the official site for Head First Design Patterns, the example for a remote proxy is… complicated, and there is actually no remote Gumball machine implementation. So...
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WordPress Theme Tweaks: Nuntius
Nuntius is a streamlined, modern, and strangely imperfect theme. If you’ve ever used it, you’ll notice that some of the widgets have weird issues with borders and margins; examples include the Twitter...
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WordPress Theme Tweaks: Liquorice and Responsive Layout
I’m so far loving the Liquorice theme: it’s warm, it has great typography, and it displays full posts in the archives. But I simply wasn’t satisfied with the width. Here’s the custom CSS recipe I used...
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Rails 3.2 on a Shared Dreamhost Server
Introduction Trying to get Rails 3.2 along with ruby 1.9.3 running on a shared Dreamhost server? Need to get it running against your Dreamhost MySQL database? Worry no more. I have gone through the...
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