20100630 “Sorry, technical discussion”

It happened to me several times while at OFFF past week: I was in a conversation with people whom I had just met moments before and the conversation derived into “technical” matters, which is to say mild-core development topics like CSS or HTML5. And then someone looked at me with a mix of pity and [...]

20090716 Proportionally resize images with CSS (and maybe JS)

With CSS only: img { height: auto; max-width: 99%; } I normally used only max-width: 99%;, but I found it tends to produce images which are too vertically stretched in some cases, and I am of the opinion that images should always preserve their aspect ratio, unless you’re trying to create some strange effect. Tested [...]

20070307 Being understood

(This is an extended version of the minispeech I gave at BarCampLondon2, “Being understood”, and here are the slides just in case you’re willing to see some bullet points goodness). We are failing to make ourselves understood. We can be speaking the same language as our listeners and failing miserably in communicating even simple concepts [...]

20070219 BarCampLondon2 :after

If you read my Thurday’s post, I was terribly undecided about what to talk about (doesn’t sound too good, heh!), but after forcing myself to revisit all the special and interesting issues or topics I have been involved in lately, I finally decided that I really needed to talk about communicating and more specially, making [...]

20060405 Assigning behaviour to page elements based on their class name

There’s little things that bore me more than having to write inline javascript for little tasks like closing a window. So I thought of a way of having javascript do it for me! Basicly this is the idea: I assign a certain class (CloseWindow) to the items that I want to act as Window Closers, [...]