Compass NilClass

March 5, 2014 at 1:54 pm | Programming, SASS, web.

Had some awesome fun with a compass sass –watch statement today. The problem that I ran into was related to image sprites. A statement like this. sass –watch –compass –sourcemap _css Would get me this. And compass would quit on me. NoMethodError: undefined method `parent’ for nil:NilClass Use –trace for backtrace. The problem, it turned… Read more »

Bad svn no donut!

November 19, 2013 at 3:49 pm | Programming, web.

The following command line in subversion will get you the response “At Revision 1234”. What this should be doing is updating the file to a specific revision. But what it should really say is “There is no file, you crackhead.” since there is no file at that location in the file system. How exactly can… Read more »

Importing content from a wordpress.com site

August 7, 2013 at 10:23 am | web, Wordpress.

Couple of quick points when it comes time to move your wordpress.com site over to a self hosted site. This can be especially painful for a large site with lots of users. Export gives user name but no email and NO OTHER content. No password, no author status – You will have to edit this… Read more »

Using colorbox with multiple styles

July 29, 2013 at 10:36 pm | web.

If you happen to run into the need to use colobox with two different styles, like one for photos and one for videos you can use the className param in later versions of Colorbox or you can use jQuery to add “addClass” to the wrapper ID so you can target the individual styles that you… Read more »

webplatform.org a web pla…

October 8, 2012 at 9:22 am | web.

http://www.webplatform.org/ a web platform doc site with the help of W3C, Facebook, Microsoft, Google Mozilla and others. http://t.co/gE5a2kon

People have more computing pow…

October 2, 2012 at 9:36 am | web.

People have more computing power in their pocket than was imaginable 25 years ago. It’s not the “Post” PC era, it’s the Super PC era.

Lawsuit claims Craigslist has …

September 24, 2012 at 5:15 pm | web.

Lawsuit claims Craigslist has a monopoly over Craigslist data. Yes it does. Go build your own site. http://t.co/W78SMImH