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Ciao Bella

Friday, November 16th, 2007

It’s official, I am a quarter of a century old. But what better way to spend this otherwise depressing occasion then in Italia. That’s right, I was in Rome on my 25th this year. I took a trip with my colleagues and alum from Platt College San Diego. We went to Rome, Tivoli, Assisi, Florence, Verona, and Venice all in a weeks time. Although I have seen enough churches to last me a lifetime, I wouldn’t trade the experience for the world. Looking up at the cieling of the Sistine Chapel was a life changing experience as was peering up at the David’s massive….. hand, of course. Well now I am back in my dark cubicle, but at least I have my memories until I can return to my dream job as a gondala driver.

On another note, my band Londons Falling is back together. Yay. Back to my first love.

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→JQuery

JQuery is officially my javascript framework of choice. Since I discovered several months back, I have been trying to use it exclusively. most of the cool effects you see on my recent web work uses the JQuery framework

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

This could be the most powerful link I have posted to date. Enjoy!

→Restyle Google Calendar

Link: LindenLan.net

The coolest part about Google Calendar is that you can embed it in your web page using an iframe which Google provides a handy-dandy configurator to generate the HTML. The worst part about Google Calendar is that you embed it in your web page using an iframe.

An iframe is truly a page within a page from the start html tag down to the end html tag. Therefore it has it’s own separate scope which means you can’t inherit styles from the parent page. If my company’s web site had a cerulean blue theme, then I wouldn’t really care. Unfortunately, the web site is colored various shades of green. Clash-o-matic.

What’s the solution? Use an intermediary script to request the calendar document and then replace the stylesheet link with a link to my own stylesheet. Voila!

-script by Brian Gibson

→CRIR

Link: ChrisErwin.com

Checkbox & Radio Input Replacement

Hides Checkboxes and Radio Buttons allowing you to apply CSS to the Label element to mimick their behavior. The form will still collect data as usual.

-script by Chris Erwin

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