Glowing mouth!
After working an all nighter at the office, I come home to my wife crying. Off to the dentist we go! She’s in the back right now getting this yanked out. Poor thing. It is also the 115th year anniversary of the X-ray. Tonight celebration will consist of a spoon fed chocolate banana shake and bloody gauze.
When at the office, I usually have my Clear 4G wireless dongle plugged into my Macbook Pro. I mostly do this so I don’t have to suck bandwidth from our internal network since I stream music throughout the day and geek out on sites like tumblr.
Today is different though; I forgot my dongle. So I resorted to using PDANet with my T-Mobile G2. Since T-Mobile has started using an HPSA+ network, I figured I would give it a shot. To my surprise, it works VERY well in my area.
Here are the results of my SpeedTest:
Not bad, right? Considering I’m in a concrete office building, I’d say that’s pretty good. I have been getting about the same from my 4G dongle, but the coverage area can be pretty spotty. At least with T-Mobile, they have coverage pretty much everywhere; I’m not sure about their HPSA+ coverage though. We’ll see how long it takes me to go through 5GB of bandwidth a month.
Lunch time.
Having fun with my step-daughter, Milla-pede.
A rare breed of rat-dog named Hubble.
Someone is tired! Oh the joys of being a dog. You can lay in the middle of the floor with your legs open and it’s still considered, “normal behavior.” WOOF WOOF!
I’m going to jump right in and start off with an example of what I mean by “less is more”.
<p>
<strong>
Hello World! Less is more!
</strong>
</p>
Let’s take a look at those 5 lines of simple code. We have bold text wrapped in a paragraph tag. Here is how we can have less code do more things.
<p id=”LessIsMore”>
Hello World! Less is more!
</p>
You’re right, It isn’t bold anymore, but it will be with CSS. So in your CSS file, assuming that you have one being used, you want to do the following:
p#LessIsMore { font-weight: bold; }
Now all paragraph text with the ID of ‘LessIsMore’ will be bold. Calm down, I know that doesn’t look like anything too genius, but it does serve a great purpose. You now have the ability to only modify your stylesheet instead of touching every instance you want to be bold. With smaller websites, you might not find this to be an issue but when you’re working on sites that have hundreds of pages and countless lines of code that can be tweaked, you want to reduce the amount of time it takes to modify the simplest things.
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In all good time, great things shall happen…
- Ron LeonGuerrero
When you’re trying to get that new job, contract or freelance gig, you have probably seen a requirement of having to know how to hand code HTML/CSS. Sure, many of you are wondering why this is a requirement. I have thought that many times in the past when applying for jobs. It wasn’t until the past 5 years that I began to really understand why.
Back in the earlier days of the dot-com, it really wasn’t a big deal to rely on applications like FrontPage or Dreamweaver. To be quite honest with you, it’s pretty standard to use software like Dreamweaver in current times. The whole issue with needing someone to be able to hand code HTML/CSS is not because the company is too cheap to purchase software (in some cases they are). Instead, it’s more about productivity, proficiency and skill level. Some people can pick it up pretty fast, others need to rely on software to help them build the bulk of code being produced.
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