After attempting to use the CSS3 Pie method for achieving some CSS3 support in IE browsers I’ve unfortunately come to the conclusion that it is still far too buggy for any kind of use other than for testing or demonstrations.  It has a pretty significant issue with the way that IE8 and lower hand page […]

I noticed a subtle but nice feature on the Google News main page recently.  The left-hand navigation that has the various section headings remains fixed to the top left area as you scroll down but it does not overlap the top banner area.  Also, if your browser window is too small to fit the entire […]

Ever wanted to skip right to just the double left quote in the default Windows Character Map?  Well, turns out you can.  Just click the “Advanced view” check box in the bottom left of the Character Map window.

I recently ran across this Internet Explorer CSS3 workaround that uses a HTC file to solve the majority of my CSS3 woes when it comes to developing cross-browser layouts.  Rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients, rgba, multiple backgrounds and even PNG transparency support are all solved with a simple (mostly simple) bit of CSS and the […]

Recently a client wanted to have a user agreement added to an enrollment form. The catch was that I needed to confirm that the user had at least scrolled through the text before allowing them to continue on with the form submission. Once again, jQuery to the rescue!

If you are importing large (greater than 8 rows) amounts of data into a SQL database via the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard you may run across this error: Error 0xc02020a1: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column “ColumnName” returned status value 4 and status text “Text was truncated […]

Or just plain acting strange? Check your connection string. Recently had a Classic ASP site that I was converting from running off of Access to using a SQL2005 database and the values in recordsets were behaving very oddly. Anytime a row column was accessed it would clear the rest of the values. For example, if I […]