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I have a weird problem I'm running into again, but haven't been able to find a fix. In FF2, when I place a <div /> over an <input /> element that currently has focus, the blinking cursor shows up through the top layer. I put together this lit
I thought I've blogged this tip before, but I saw someone else mention it on a mailing list this morning. If you ever want to remove the time portion in a MSSQL Server, you can do this by removing the decimal portion of the date/time stamp. SQL Server s
I'm not a designer. I can make may way around Photoshop, but the majority of my time in Photoshop is spent chopping up layers to convert them into images to use in my HTML & CSS. Occasionally I need to create new graphic assets or tweak the colors in
I stumbled across the SlickDeals.net Forums' Excel Spreadsheet - BF Filtered Ads - BF2008 Buying Guide yesterday and thought this is a useful spreadsheet for anyone looking for shopping deals this week. They look to be keeping the spreadsheet up-to-date,
I just noticed that Google appears to have added some new features to the results page. The new features are buttons for "Promote", "Remove" and "Comment". The "Promote" feature appears to be a way to give your
I was working on some code today where I was getting back a query object from a CFC and needed to get the execution time. You can get this information from the <cfquery /> tag by using the result attribute, but since I was getting my query object ba
I came across a couple of sites this morning that show off examples of existing UI design patterns that I believe will be useful to all developers. While there's always room to improve, many of the design problems we run into while developing applications
Windows 7 is introducing a new feature called "Aero Shake." The concept is you simply drag and "shake" a window's title bar and all background windows will either be minimized or restored (based on their current status.) Here's a YouTu
Yesterday I was trying to divide two values to calculate a percentage, but the value was always coming up zero. What really throw me off, is I had a query similar to the following and that was working fine: select floor((avg(Rating) / count(Rating))
Jordan Mechner, the creator of the original 1989 state-of-the-art animation game Prince of Persia, has recently released the videos he took of his brother that he used for the animations in the game. When this game was released, it really took animations
