Random and Opinionated Thoughts

by: Jennifer Zelazny

Standards

Land Rover Anniversary

It has officially been one year since we bought our Land Rover. Did I write this down? No. Land Rover sent us an “anniversary” present in the mail with a card. We got a very classy box with a card, a $2,000 off coupon for a new Range Rover (thanks – that should cover the […]

CSS HOWTOs Web Development

CSS Tips and HOWTOs From W3C

I have been very busy working on CSS for a big up and coming web site and I have spent the last few nights doing some research on best practices and came across a W3C site I used when I first started coding with CSS that is very useful. There are a number of tips […]

Business

Over a Month Solo Now

It has officially been over a month since I left my full time job to focus solely on my consulting company and I wanted to take a moment to thank a few key people. First and foremost I would like to thank Amy and our families for believing me in and never questioning my decision. […]

jappler.com Web Development

yahoo! pipes.

I finally sat down and looked seriously at Yahoo! Pipes to try and figure out how or if it could be useful to me and my clients. I wanted to make something useful so I decided that it would be nice to have a “master Jen feed” which would include the RSS feed from this […]

TV

ninja warrior!

I have been up late the last few nights and on Sunday I caught my first episode of Ninja Warrior on G4 TV. This is an amazing show and before you think you would not enjoy it – check out when it is on next and give it a try. The competitors have amazing strength […]

CSS Serenity Now! Web Development

Keep It Simple!

I am currently working on a big project which includes wrangling over 12k lines of CSS. Tonight it took me an hour to create a very simple form when it would normally take me 5 minutes. Why? Overcomplicated CSS. At this point I am using so many default values (like vertical-align: baseline; and float:none;) that […]

jappler.com WordPress

jappler.com revisions.

I have spent the last few weeks about making jappler.com more of a resource. I have spent a lot of time over the years posting about UNIX commands, web development HOWTOs, etc and would like to make that content easier to find. You will notice that I have already changed the navigation items and plan […]

CSS Hints HOWTOs Web Development

CSS and z-index.

I have been busy working on an excited project that uses some pretty complicated layouts. I was originally hired to optimize and clean up the XHTML/CSS so it would work in IE 6, IE 7, Safari, and Firefox, but now am busy working on producing the clean XHTML/CSS from the start. I needed to brush […]

CSS

cool findings.

In the past few days I feel like I have been bookmarking and tagging URLS left and right. If you are bored, or interested in looking at some really cool/crazy stuff, take a few minutes and check out the items below. Transparency with IE 6! Keyword shortcuts from OpenDNS (thanks Doug) The secret Wildfire horseradish […]

Life Stuff

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book

I absolutely love the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm so when I recently saw a commercial that showed a new season on the horizon, I got all excited. I just went to the HBO web site to get more information and found out that there is now a book available on the show! If you […]

Serenity Now!

Too Elite For Elite

Well, after a few months of using Yahoo!/SBC Global Elite (fast) DSL, I am moving back to using Comcast’s high speed cable. The speed was horrible, the support was horrible (I spoke to a “Mac Expert” who did not know that traceroutes could be done on a Mac, they thought it was only a “Windows […]