Archive for May, 2010

Teaching C#

Posted by Tom on May 28th, 2010

I’m teaching beginning programming using C# to university business students (CIS) in the upcoming Fall semester.
It’ll be doubly fun, as I’ve never used C# until about a month ago. Sure, I’ve used plenty of other languages, but for some reason, never anything from .NET. (Partly it’s because I’ve used a Mac as my primary machine [...]

Images inside a CSS file

Posted by Tom on May 28th, 2010

I was experimenting with my own version of the CSS3 Awesome button, when I noticed one of the commenters share the base64 encoded version of the semi-transparent PNG image they were using as a substitute for a gradient.
I was using a smaller image, and want to run a conversion of my own (it saves an [...]

Turbo-charging the color picker

Posted by Tom on May 28th, 2010

It’s probably old hat to anyone doing design for a living, but I found a couple of new color tools for OS X that are making my web design work easier.
I use TextMate for coding, and wasn’t thinking about the CSS bundle item that brings up OS X’s default color picker (Command-Shift-C; the TextMate bundle [...]