Downloadable WebFonts
To maintain accessibility and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), there's often a need to be creative with fonts. This is sometimes…
Browser Rendering Engines
This is knowledge that is generally "tribal" by nature, reserved to only the nerdiest web developers, recently I was asked…
Scan for Windows System updates
Most IT professionals are already aware that Microsoft routinely publishes updates to their operating systems on the second Tuesday of…
Preventing portions of a webpage from printing
A colleague asked me about my solution for this just the other day, here's the quick solution. Add a CSS…
Baby Allison was born!
I'm a daddy... our precious little girl was born at 11:08pm CST - 20inches, 8 lbs. 6 oz. Photos available…
MSIE PNG Alpha Transparency
In usual form, MSIE doesn't directly implement Alpha-Transparency on PNG images. Typically this feature is used to allow for anti-aliased…
Open Source Diffs/Compare Tools
I often find it necessary to compare separate branches of large programming projects in Java/JSP and PHP. Comparing single files…
HTTP Forward vs. Redirect
A Controller servlet may perform either a forward or a redirect operation at the end of processing a request. It…
Single FORM INPUT causes submit on Enter/Return
This is a browser oddity that I've had to code around for years. In most modern browsers (currently Mozilla Firefox…
UTF-8 (BOM) prevents java compilation
I had an adventure tracking this one down lately, it seems that if your IDE saves files as UTF-8, the…