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Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

21 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Internet Explorer Stylesheet Limit

Did you know that IE ignores all style tags after the first 30 requests?
This had me scratching my head last week as I couldn’t fathom out why certain styles weren’t being applied to a lightbox in Internet Explorer, but were working just fine in all other browsers.
I figure IE  inconsistencies like the double margin bug, [...]

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13 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

TextMate CSS Colour Picker

Being a heavy mac user, I’m always in my favourite text editor – TextMate. Here’s a tip for when working with colour in a CSS file. This shortcut brings up a real handy colour picker.
⌘ + ⇧ + c
Once a colour has been selected, the corresponding hex code is placed at the current cursor position. [...]

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06 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A precursor: jQuery UI by Dan Wellman

jQuery UI 1.7 by Dan Wellman

Not too long ago, I found out that Dan Wellman was looking for people to review his new book entitled jQuery UI 1.7. Naturally I jumped at the chance, and his publishers were generous enough to send me a copy.
I’ve used a number of the widgets included in the jQuery UI library before, and found [...]

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03 December 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Abusing JavaScript Frameworks

Tools like jQuery and MooTools make traversing and manipulating the DOM incredibly easy. So easy that you can get carried away with it sometimes. I have fallen down this trap more than once in my career as a web developer.
Here’s an excerpt from an article I stumbled across entitled Add Icons to External Links with [...]

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25 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Hello Linode

As part of my move back over to WordPress, I also switched hosting companies. Being a developer I wanted some hands on experience running my own server, and since the pricing for a VPS is now quite reasonable(only £5 more a month than what I was currently paying), I decided to take the plunge.
After [...]

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