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Resolution Independent Mobile UI
As device displays become denser and denser (did someone say Retina Display iPad?), finding the right method for creating resolution independent UI elements will become more and more important. Using ems and percentages is one such method, that we currently think is the strongest… – David Kaneda Check out the Sencha Blog for the rest of [...]
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Full Page Screenshots
Ever wanted to take a full page screen shot of a website you love? I know I’m always wishing there was a simple way to do just that. When I find a site that inspires me I normally end up with a bunch of mismatched screenshots all from a single page and this makes it [...]
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Fixing the Web Inspector Font In Safari
With the release of Safari 5 came a bunch of great new features including updates to the web inspector. If you use this tool as much as I do you will have noticed that the font changed from Lucida Grande to Menlo, a larger, monospace font. This makes the web inspector looks more like the [...]
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New INK Design Website
During the past few days I had the chance to remake the INK Design website for my good friend Kamran Samimi, a printmaker and graphic designer from Honolulu, Hawaii. We brainstormed on a bunch of out-there ideas to present his work but eventually settled with something somewhat similar to how this site is laid out. [...]
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Google Font API
So I ran into this little gem today while trying to fix a layout bug I was getting from custom fonts being loaded on this page after everything else was rendered. Although it did not solve the problem, Google’s font api is a pretty handy tool for anyone using web fonts. What it provides is [...]
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Some Fresh New Web Tools
Here’s a listing of some really cool web development tools I’ve come across in the past month or so. Some of these tools are old while some are new, but they are all very useful. If you are a web developer I suggest checking all of them out.
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New Project: BraxtonsDiary.com
I just finished setting up a photo / music journal site for my friend Braxton Olita. Check out the site, or learn more on the projects page.
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24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup
There are many arguments for mocking up a website in html rather than doing so beforehand in photoshop, but I personally have never considered the method viable, at least for myself. It always seemed like it would waste a lot of time since I tend to go through a whole bunch of different mock ups [...]
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The New Website
I have been wanting to update my website for a long time, but with school, work, and everything else on my plate last semester I could not find the time to really make it happen. Fast-forward to the start of 2010 and I have graduated, plus I have had more time on my hands to [...]
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Due Dates 2.0 (the Web Application!) is born
Developing the Due Dates 2.0 web application was an experience that really summed up everything I have learned about software engineering in the last 5 months. I worked alongside Aric West and Mari-Lee Flestado, as team UlaUla (red) in creating this application. In developing Due Dates 2.0 I used all the tools available to me [...]
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My first Wicket Web Application
There are many frameworks available today for creating dynamic web applications, some of which are extremely complicated and hard to use. Wicket is one of the few, easy to use tools out there that works well with Java programming. What makes Wicket different from most other web application tools is that it effectively separates the [...]
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The Release of Due Dates Version 1.2 [team gold]
This week marks the release of Due Dates version 1.2 [Project Homepage]. With this new version comes two new features: an email reporting service, as well as a timer-based reporting function that allows the user to automatically have the program run at some specified interval of time. Both functions have been integrated into the Team [...]
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The Release of Due Dates Version 1.1 [team gold]
For the last week and a half, my partner Scheller Sanchez and I have been working on Due Dates Version 1.1. This new version has many new features compared to the last one, including support for the Hawaii State Library, a sort option, as well as a within option. All in all what ended up [...]
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Creating My First OSS Project: Due Dates
PROJECT: Due Dates PROJECT PAGE: http://code.google.com/p/duedates-gold/ TEAM: Tyler Wolff and Scheller Sanchez (team gold) OVERALL CONCEPT: Due Dates is a program that will go and retrieve information about various items that you (the user) have borrowed, including their due dates. The application can be used for library books, videos, or anything else with a due date, [...]
