SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

Miss Part 1? Go give it a read then.

So now that you have your custom scrollees, how about we fix those arrow keys, mmkay? First lets take a look at why the keys aren’t working.

Part 2 of this tutorial is now up, give it a gander why don’t ya?

I have, as others around the interwebs, added a bit of awesomeness to the Sillyness by leveraging the scrollbar specific CSS that is in the newer builds of WebKit.

So Sillyness newcomer Mark emailed me asking how to achieve the fading effect you see on the site. I thought that it was a good candidate for a tutorial, and even better, a great candidate for my new feature the Tuesday Howto.

So lets get this party started.

Right, time for a new series to make its debut on Sillyness, and look at that its WordPress!

I am not sure how long this series will be, but since I have worked with MU quite a bit over the last 2 years or so, I thought it was high time to share some of the crap I have learned with all of you out there in the intarwebs.

Not too long ago my wife asked me to set up a blog for her, so she could stay in contact with those we left behind in Kentucky. Since I had been wanting her to blog for a couple of years now, I immediately set to work figuring out a domain for it, and designing a theme.

She didn’t want a vanity domain, so I settled on WeDavis3 as a suitably short, descriptive URL for the site. I had been planning on blogging more about everyday life, so moving that to the new site made a certain amount of sense.

I sat in an interview today where the interviewee lamented the lack of a clearly laid out tutorial on how to deploy web applications with SVN.

Since this is exactly what we do at $work, I thought I would try my hand at hammering something out here. In this little diddy we will cover the the uses of trunk and tags. Also, please understand this is how we do it, not The One True Way^TM.

Here are the terms I will be using, and what I mean when I type them:

If you ever find yourself needing a piece of “art” and only have a photo to work with, then have I got a tip for you.

The process is fairly simple, but it does require Illustrator and photoshop. I am still working with CS2 at work and at home, so the steps I outline here will be for that version of the software.

Step 1: pick a photo

First, select the photo you want to use, I chose this panorama of the Asbury College campus:

So, after reflecting on my entry “Visual Harmony in Webdesign”, I got to thinking. It is all well and good to complain bitterly about the lack of artisitic principles that are found in some of todays design, but what does it really accomplish?

Nothing. So today I am starting a multi-part series covering some of the priciples found in the world of fine art, that can be applied to our web design. First up is Rhythm, or Art Rhythm.

If you are a web designer/developer type, and you use the mac as your dev platform of choice, and you are planning on upgrading to Leopard when it drops later today, knowing a couple of things before-hand will be helpful. Namely your shiny new OS now sports Apache 2.2.x and and PHP 5.2.x. This is a huge change.

As you read this, I am on the road, driving the benz to Columbus to speak at the Ohio Linux Fest. It has been strange preparing for this engagement, since for the first time, my slides won’t have any code in them!

All the talks I have given to date have been covering specific types of technology (XSLT) or methods for using technology (Apache 2 on MacOS X). Never have I spoken about trends, and philosophies in conjunction with technology. This certainly should be interesting.