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Making Awesomeness* 4 weeks ago

15 years. Yep, that’s a long time. In fact, it’s so long that it’s hard to remember “not” working for Adobe. But as of May 4th, I will be leaving the “big red A” to set off on a new adventure. I’ve accepted an offer to join Stremor, a start-up here …

Using Dreamweaver with Sass and Less last month

When my wife, Stephanie Rewis, decided to leave the gun-for-hire world and join a start-up, she was immediately faced with a decision on which CSS preprocessor to use – Sass or Less. And compounding the problem, her editor of choice, Dreamweaver, doesn’t provide color coding or hinting for …

Change happens – border-image breaks in Chrome 4 months ago

As anyone who has worked in the front-end dev world knows, keeping up with the “new” stuff is challenging. Thankfully, the browser makers have provided vendor prefixes which allow us to use a lot of the new CSS3 properties before they are finalized. But thanks to a reader of my blog, …

Change happens: border-image breaks in Chrome 4 months ago

As anyone who has worked in the front-end dev world knows, keeping up with the “new” stuff is challenging. Thankfully, the browser makers have provided vendor prefixes which allow us to use a lot of the new CSS3 properties before they are finalized. But thanks to a reader of my blog, …

The Importance of “s” in CSS3 Transition Shorthand 9 months ago

On a recent project, I spent the better part of an hour (okay, maybe longer) fighting with what I would learn is an interesting anomaly in the way that Firefox (4 and 5) deal with CSS3 shorthand transition notation. What baffled me was the fact that the other players, Webkit (Safari and Chrome) …
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Honeycomb tip: Changing the browser’s user agent string 9 months ago

I’ve just spent the weekend getting my new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 all setup – which included downloading a couple of browsers. I’ve been using the Dolphin browser on my Android phones for quite some time, and really liked it because of the fact that it can be set to identify …
keywords android, browser, dolphin, galaxy, galaxy tab, honeycomb, mobile, quite some time, samsung, tech tips, user agent string

New Dreamweaver Feature: W3C Validator Integration 11 months ago

I will be the first to admit that I rarely think about validating my pages while I work. Okay, sometimes I don’t validate at all. I know I should, but I can usually come up with a good excuse for not doing it – an elephant ate my homework still works on occasion. ;-) And [...]
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Best Tip Ever: Using Online CSS3 Tools In Dreamweaver 11 months ago

One of the coolest things about the development of CSS3 is all of the experimental sites and online tools being created to help us all learn the new syntax, properties, etc. There are literally tons of great ones like css3maker.com, John Allsopp’s  westciv tools, border-image.com, …
keywords adobe, border image, css3, dreamweaver, html5, john allsopp, microsoft, online tools, syntax, tech tips

Resolving “Android SDK failed to install” with … 11 months ago

One of the biggest problems with linking to anything on the web is when the address of that file changes. Sadly, this happened recently with a file that was used by Dreamweaver CS5.5 to install the Android SDK via the Easy Install button on the Configure Application Framework dialog (Site > …
keywords adobe, android, application framework, cs5, dreamweaver, dreamweaver 5, mobile, mobile applications, phonegap, sdk

Updating jQuery and jQuery Mobile in Dreamweaver CS5.5 11 months ago

Holy Javascript Libraries, Batman! In case you’re keeping score, Adobe began shipping Dreamweaver CS5.5 less than two weeks ago with support for jQuery and jQuery Mobile. But, the versions included in Dreamweaver, jQuery 1.5 and jQuery Mobile 1.0a3, are already out of date! Because before …
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Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe Systems. HTML5/CSS3/JS lover and @stefsull's personal cook. http://blog.assortedgarbage.com

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