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My favorite class name when styling a page is ‘padahoe’. If anyone ever asks what it stands for I’ll tell them “pad a horizontally oriented element”. Lies, damn lies, statistics.

When I commit to git I tend to flavor my commit messages with humorous snark, usually related to how something in the application is deviously circumventing my attempts to enforce my authority. My logic is shot through with regression insurgents.

too many div’s and things go POOF!

When you have a styled div set with an id inside another div on safari at least. I’m going to explore this further, but it seems at this point I’m stacking my nodes too deep, MEANING if a styled div is inside another div that is replaced by an rjs template which has a visual effect to appear the styled stuff inside the div inside the one affected by the javascript response will remain hidden while all the stuff around it will pop into view. Selecting on the screen around the blank areas will reveal the content. Use span’s or class declarations to avoid the same 4 hours of frustration I just had. Of course this could all be wrong and I’m foolishly pointing west when the true way is north. In any case it wasn’t working as expected and now it is so I am of the mind that I solved my problem, be it maybe for only a moment.

remember to float the containers holding the floats

And clear your floats. Boxes are a pain. Tables are ugly. Love thy stacked attributes.

That is all.

Oh boy do I suck like a black hole. My bird flu typo theme had some major issues in the default.rhtml. So if you've downloaded it grab it again and trash the old one. Now Working: RSS Feeds; ajax comments; ajax admin menus...

My ‘bird flu’ entry captured me 6th place in the typo theme contest. Geoffrey deserves a huge round of applause for all the hard work he managed to fit in around business demands and trans-global flights to run a pretty kick ass contest! And he produces the podcast, does the man ever sleep?!

Also deserving of mad props are the sponsors of the contest and the suite of enticing prizes they offered up as inspiration/motivation:

• Site5 Hosting
• Planet Argon Hosting
• Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking
• The Pragmatic Programmers
• The Iconfactory
• Macromates
• Tables Turned

I’m making the psd of my design available for download (right/control click & save file) for no other reason besides that I can. Take it and do what you will. It is yours.

The typo theme that started it all: Bird Flu