How well do you know your colors? Try this color matching game with a wide variety of tests from hue/saturation to tint/brightness. Developed with HTML5 and CSS3, this state-of-the-art tool is perfect for honing in and testing color skills. Also includes and experimental support for color blind users. Note: make [...]
Dekkke: A Visual Tool for Managing Projects
For those who prefer a more visual and simplified approach to managing tasks, now there’s Dekkke. In Dribbble-esque fashion, Dekkke lets you upload “Snaps,” little 300×300 thumbnails of what you have to do and remember. If you’re a creative type, or just want a simplified way of managing projects, Dekkke [...]
Auto-detecting Credit Card Type
There was a time when people thought the internet required a completely different payment method than the real world. After a very short period of time, everyone came to realize that credit cards were actually quite well-suited to the web, and so the credit card form was born. You’ve probably [...]
Time to Start Programming E-books
The dividing line between writing books and writing programs just got a big step blurrier. That’s because Amazon has now released tools for creating books using Web technologies. Those tools include Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), used to describe Web pages, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), used for formatting. “Through the [...]
Changing a Page Title with jQuery
When working with various website frameworks and apps, the need arises frequently enough, to change a page title. Though a Javascript/jQuery solution most likely will not help your SEO, it comes in handy still for those who share pages on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. By changing a page [...]
Background Images on the UINavigationBar
Toward the end of the development phase for the first release of Epicure, Adam Betts started sending me stellar design mockups. Many of his ideas were quite easy to implement. However, something as simple as adding a background image to a UINavigationBar was much harder than it should have been. [...]
Profiling CSS Optimization Notes
I’ve been recently working on optimizing performance of a so-called one-page web app. The application was highly dynamic, interactive, and was heavily stuffed with new CSS3 goodness. I’m not talking just border-radius and gradients. It was a full stack of shadows, gradients, transforms, sprinkled with transitions, smooth half-transparent colors, clever [...]
How I Made $19,000 While Learning to Code
The past year and a half has been quite a journey. I’ve gone from starting to learn iPhone design, to quitting my full time job and focusing on an application full-time. All while teaching myself to program in Objective-C with no prior programming experience. OneVoice is a iPhone/iPad application that [...]
Textarea Auto Resize
On a current project, I was trying to find a way to auto-resize a textarea according to some content that would be loaded in dynamically via Ajax. I didn’t know the height of the content and the textarea element doesn’t resize naturally like other HTML elements, so I needed to [...]
