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An Unfortunate Truth

December 9th, 2007

Sitting on a third floor table of Allen Hall (the journalism and communication school) at the University of Oregon my my colleagues pass by asking “mapping?” I sight and respond with a smile “nothing but.”
The reason for this sigh has revealed itself as a disappointing yet without persuasion truth. FireFox is indeed not the browsers [...]

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Face Off - Class v. ID

November 21st, 2007

What is the difference between a class and an ID in CSS? Both seem to behave identical, but they have different uses. A good coder knows when and how to use each one.
IDs:

Can only be used once on a page
Can be used with a class for the same element
Used to identify one and only one [...]

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MySQL, Wordpress and the University of Oregon Computing

November 21st, 2007

so as far as I can tell I am the first person at the University of Oregon to successfully install, setup, and run mysql and wordpress on their UOregon account. So that being said this post is intended to outline step by step the process so most people can do it themselves. Please leave comments [...]

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Wordpress Image Captions in wp-lightbox2

November 20th, 2007

In an ideal world I would have found a Wordpress image captions plugin that just worked the way I wanted - not a perfect world I guess. Last night I struggled with Javascript and edited wp-lightbox2 so it would display any image with a link having a title attribute as a caption. This is lightweight [...]

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