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Archive for January, 2004
Pretty in pink, and yellow and green
In: Personal
28 Jan 2004Perhaps you’d have noticed the new colors and a slightly changed layout. Is pink too effeminate? Think the color palette is garishly eye-blinding? Do your eyes bleed from the white background?
VB.NET boolean operators and short-circuit evaluation
In: Programming
25 Jan 2004… short-circuit evaluation is how the logical human brain works when confronted with chained boolean conditionals in real life Having to pick up VB.NET for a Human Computer Interaction course this semester, I’ve been spending some time getting acquainted with the language through a couple of books. Every now and then I get somewhat bemused [...]
Teach yourself Java in 21 days?
In: Neat Stuff
25 Jan 2004Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years is more realistic. That just about sums up why I was never bought by the enticing promises of “Teach Yourself X in Y days” and “Learn X in Y hours” books.
Photoshop magic
In: Neat Stuff
22 Jan 2004Check out the 1st post in this discussion forum thread. It’s in Chinese but the pictures speak for themselves. 20 hours was how long it took, but check out the hair on the girl and the fur on the dog. Unbelievable.
Tooltips with CSS
In: Web development
22 Jan 2004Pure CSS tooltips by SantaKlauss shows you how to display tooltips using purely CSS. The idea is not unlike Nice Titles, though the execution is very different – Nice Titles uses the DOM to extract the nicetitles, the tooltips use only CSS. The smart part is when printing: the tooltips are “inlined” and bracketed appropriately [...]
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