Blogs

16 Jan

CSS 3 animated getting started

Published by Mark W. Breneman

Good read about how to get started with CSS 3 animation:
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/01/10/animated-web-banners-with-css3/

09 Jan

Make sprite based nav ez

Published by Mark W. Breneman

From the site:
Single sprite (What's that?) navigation is great, but we all know it can get a little bit tedious. All that measuring of pixel perfect photoshop slices, careful coding of your CSS and subsequent calculator bashing is enough to drive anyone to start microwaving fluffy kittens. Wouldn't it be great to have a fancy online tool to take care of all the boring stuff for you in a few simple clicks?

http://labs.engageinteractive.co.uk/nav-o-matic/

04 Jan

Show / Hide paragraph under heading: jquery

Published by Mark W. Breneman

I was looking to do just this the other day and I could not find an example of how to hide the paragraph under a h tag. Too bad I did not stop and think, "oh, hey, I could just do a :eq(0)> div and a few other tricks and get it to work." Any way here is a good example of how to get this to work:

http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/02/more-showing-more-hiding

27 Dec

Rambo Architecture Vs The Chaos Monkey

Published by Mark W. Breneman

Ok you had me at Rambo Architecture.... but Rambo Architecture vs Chaos Monkey gotta read....

Here is a fantastic article about netflix using Amazon Web Services and maintaining uptime even if the cloud hosting is having issues. This article introduces "Rambo Architecture"- "Each system has to be able to succeed, no matter what, even all on its own.” And it also introduces "The Chaos Monkey" test scrips, that randomly turns off servers and data bases to make sure the Rambo Architecture keeps running. Stop I my inner server admin is 1/2 crying and 1/2 laughing.