Author Archives: Matt

The always useful, always controversial CSS reset

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is nothing new. As a styling language, it’s been around since the mid 90s. CSS is easy to learn and semantically easy to understand. It also allows for–in many cases–fewer lines of code than traditional layout methods to achieve the same end. Not to mention the ability to make global (cascading) [...]

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Adding custom Google News search to Google Reader

Over the years, Google has rolled out some powerful productivity and information based tools for people who like to get their news and reading material online. Their RSS aggregator, Google Reader, provides a clutter-free environment for reading feeds and custom news on just about any topic under the sun. Alternately, if you’re not as big [...]

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Slides jQuery plugin: quick, simple slideshows.

I’m always on the lookout for great snippets of code to add to my web development toolbox. jQuery plugins are incredibly useful when creating pages with dynamic effects and you don’t want to use Flash. If you’ve ever searched for jQuery plugins, you may know that the results are many and that you often have [...]

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Q&D Links #15: A Book Apart, HTML5, iOS 5 and more

My world has been quite busy lately. Time has largely been devoted to a few projects with my colleagues at HM, and we just recently launched a brand new website for my home county, Antigonish! My lady and I also recently moved to a new apartment, and took a weekend trip to PEI to celebrate [...]

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Time lapse: Nightfall in Antigonish. Song by The Decemberists.

So A and I moved recently (from one side to the other in our duplex) and we have a way better view now. Saturday was kind of a dreary day, but as night started to fall it looked like it may clear, so I set the iPod up and let Gorillacam go. Though I was [...]

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    Tech, building websites, and using cameras to capture things the eye can't see are some of my favourite things. What's posted here will mostly reflect those interests.

    I live and work in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.