Showcase Links

Resources:

• http://css3.info
• http://dev.opera.com
• http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
• http://delicious.com/jcornelius/html5
• http://delicious.com/jcornelius/css3
• http://adactio.com/extras/pocketbooks/html5/

Links to the actual slides and video are coming soon.

Thanks for attending.

So today happens to be the one day i’m willingly going naked stripping my CSS for web standards.
I am participating in the Annual CSS Naked Day, which means i get to say naked as many times as i want for a good cause
If the bare minimum still doesn’t look right to you, please let me know.
Visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information on how to join, and support the use of web standards and accessibility guidelines.

code free

But after going through the iPad can – do’s,  asking myself,  “what will iPad do that my notebook and phone can’t do ?”  I came up with this conclusion. Wait for it….. !nothing.
Apple Steve Jobs and Co have very well figured out how to gain the following of the rest of the folks who generally don’t use desktops/laptops for everything they are advertised to do and do not necessarily need an app device  when they just needed to receive a call.

So for those over gadget feature overloaded techies who anticipated a new device that will change habits for everyone this isn’t it, but it will surely change the regular Joe who doesn’t need all the gigs to check email, read the news, watch a video, stalk old flames on facebook without squinting or calling tech support to turn on the computer.

That said, my sole resolution this year is to put all my to-dos into to-done. Which means you will hear a whole lot from yours truly, hopefully most positive.
Here is to a good 2009 and a great 2010 full of bigger and better things.

Happy new year everyone

$(document).keydown(function(event){
  switch (event.keyCode) {
   //ctrl key
      case 17:
     alert("key: ctrl");
  //overide default event action
     return false;
  }
});

Note: The keycodes may be different across browsers and overiding the event action may did not work in ie8.
For a keycode reference and test tool check out http://is.gd/2mf9A

RewriteMap.

You can choose to implement RewriteMap in various ways but i choose the text file route because its relatively easier to implement, does not require external execution (prg : requires command line execution of your rewrite program),  and is easier to troubleshoot.

problem:

rewrite and redirect this old urls

http://example.com/shoes/item.php?id=1245&size=medium

to something descent like

 http://example.com/shoes/ladies/sandals/

Solution:

Create your rewrite map  map.txt

# old shoes urls
1245 	ladies/sandals
1024	mens/boots
5487    ladies/boots

Add the following to your httpd.conf inside your virtual host directive .

# if your path has spaces just place it in quotes
RewriteMap legacy "txt:c:/path to text file/map.txt"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}   ^GET\ /([\w-]+)/(.*)\.php/\?id=([\d]+)(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$	${legacy:%3}/? [R=301,L]

Explanation:

The map.txt:

simple text file that has the value we are looking for (1245) and the value we want to replace it with (ladies/sandals)

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST}

This will try and match the whole URL request sent to the server.
I used this instead of the more commonly touted RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} because %{THE_REQUEST} captures the whole URL including the query string and since i am well aware of the URL format i can do an exact query string match of my URL without incurring the overhead of a greedy check of whether the query string exists or not, while validating the value of the variable i need to rewrite

RewriteRule ^(.*)$	   ${legacy:%3}/? [R=301,L]

This will take the whole URL, replace it with my matched value (${legacy:%3}), remove the query string by adding a ‘?’ and permanently redirect the URL to the new one ‘[R=301,L]‘

magic .. don’t you think?

1. Ms Patience will always take precedence  in any undertaking, regardless of how often you spill my coffee, crash my laptop,  steal my sock(s) and blame the dryer,  cut me off on the highway, skip my cd’s and loose my cell phone reception among many other things 
2. I am allowed to celebrate (hic*) on every occasion you are not prescent
3. I can and shall employ documented methods of controll including and not limited to  whoo-saah, wax-on wax-off.  If you get out off hand
4. I don’t mind you showing up and participating in non-life threatening events like football sports as long as Mr Competition is present
5. On the other hand please refrain from attending important meetings, checking in during work hours and hanging around whenever I’m in transit.

With this few things in mind i’m sure we’ll get along just fine.  

Yours Trully.

The actual images used in the presentation are from flickr and are all of the Notre Dame.
Enjoy

-watch the presentation->

• Join a charity foundation st.Jude
• Dust the drums/guitar and play them
• More phone calls less tweets/facebook
• Learn a foreign language Kao
• Practise more patience with proclaimed former smart-asses Kagai
• Sunday = Church