I’ve been learning “Summertime” on guitar of late. I’ll post an arrangement when I’m through with it. But, for now, I’d like to share a few gems I’ve discovered in the course of getting familiar with the song. One of the things I really like about learning jazz standards is delving into the history of…
divArt: painting pixels with divs
I’ve been messing with CSS3 a lot of late. And it occurred to me that using the height, width, and background-color attributes of div tags, along with some judicious use of floats and clears, one could make some pixel-perfect art without having to resort to images. I’ve been on a retro arcade game kick of late,…
Shortcut Icons and IE8
I ran into a problem recently with shortcut icon files not working in Internet Explorer 8, while they were working fine in every other web browser. Shortcut icons are the little images that show up in the address bar of Safari (to the left of the URL), in the browser tabs in Chrome and Firefox…
Fun with Google Analytics
I don’t blog as much as I once did. Social media sites provide me with quicker ways to interact with a more targeted group of friends/followers/whatever-you-want-to-call-them. Plus, let’s face it, rattling off a tweet or a Facebook post is a quicker and easier path to the endorphine hit of computer-mediated human interaction than composing a…