This is a response to David Walsh's article from yesterday. Confessions of a 30-something web developer I still sometimes use <table>s as a layout tool to create columns, not as markup for tabular data. I took longer than most people to embrace CSS Absolute Positioning, because I didn't think it was well ...

No, I don't mean one of those. I've been crowned moderator of the XML forum at WebmasterWorld.com. Timbits are in the kitchen, go help yourself.

Quick post. Sorry for the terseness. You're running a site on Apache, and while you're working on it you want the public to see an "under construction" page. The site is visible at a subdomain of your root host, (a typical scenario on Apache, with CPANEL and add-on domains) Your normal redirection ...

My dutiful alarm clock wakes me weekday mornings with the local news radio station. Every day, I'm roused from groggy slumber by voices telling me what's going on in the world, and it's not uncommon for the alarm to go off and rant the news for a few minutes (sometimes ...

What is it to get Hoffsmacked? It's all explained here: Hoffsmack: A History Hoffsmacking is a rebuttal to Rickrolling invented recently by a small assembly of anonymous conspirators in Toronto. I'd actually never heard of Rickrolling before, but apparently it's consuming bandwidth across the world. If you get RickRolled, the Hoffsmack is ...

The most recent version of Firefox crashes every freaking few minutes. I can't even browse to my own site with it. When I request ianring.com, Firefox crashes. It used to not suck. What happened? I've heard Flock is no better. And IE is ... IE. Where have all the good browsers gone? ...

Really smart, witty people often come up with identical thoughts. Just moments ago, I was looking at an IP address for a site I host, and wondering whether it was a good one. I felt the undeniable urge to spin up a little numerology on it. So I did. Got ...

Has anyone noticed that most of my recent blog posts have been these stupid YouTube embeds, mostly written on Wednesday nights? It's true... most of my really good material has been going into an IGLOO-based intranet blog. Sorry. I'll remedy that as time allows. This one made me give back my ...

I thought Lou Reed was cool... until I saw this performance. It's bad enough Lou showed up to participate in this utter disaster, but then he starts in with this contrived Joe Cocker shit? Honestly! Can't musicians just get older gracefully ...

Why is it that searching for Javascript inevitably returns piles of results for "Java"? Don't the machines that serve up results know that they are two very different things, and I'm interested in the former, not the latter? My employer is hiring right now for a Javascript Expert, and we keep ...