Rails MongoDB logging on Heroku with MongoHQ
I love Heroku but it only retains your last 100 lines of logs. To save your log output you need to store them outside of the service. MongoDB is “fantastic for logging” and Heroku’s MongoHQ … Continued
CSS/JQuery navigation with menu items enlarging on hover without shifting adjacent elements
Synopsis: Menu (navigation items) are popping out (font-size increased) on hover without pushing/shifting adjacent menu items.Bonus: How to center navigation of undefined width. I strongly encourage all web developers (designers, front-end developers or whatever) to … Continued
Make IE6 respect width (CSS)
What we do to emulate min-width in IE-6? We apply this css to container: .container { height:auto !important; height:200px; min-height:200px; } Here’s what happens: IE 6 doesn’t understand !important, IE6 doesn’t know what min-height is, … Continued
Clearly 4G ad campaign a waste of money
Clear “Super Fast Mobile Internet” is spending so much money on it’s marketing campaigns it hurts me. If we were hired to consult and market the Clearwire Corporation, I would make the “Clear 4G” network … Continued
Javascript router
Let’s say you’re building a 3-pages website: Home User Settings -> Profile User Settings -> Account Pretty basic. However, on the front end, you need to implement the following using Javascript: Home page should have … Continued
Seeking constraints in a web design world
Over many beers, and one smashing bout of Checkers with friend and illustrator Jesse Hora, we transparently discussed our love for print design and our ideological positions on web design. The web offers the ease … Continued
Yelp, what the zip is up with your algorithm?
I love Yelp and I think their model of being a directory for the people is one of the better ones out there. However, the other day when I was doing a local search to … Continued
Magento: How to add noindex, nofollow robots meta tag or change meta title or description on certain pages
Here’s a small tip on how to modify title, description or add meta robots tag on any magento page via xml layouts or layout updates. It’s obvious how to do that for CMS or products … Continued
Magento: How to remove certain States from state/region list at Checkout or registration.
Magento is an e-commerce platform that supports multi-language and all that multi stuff. Therefore list of Regions per country is perfectly legal. The list of regions for USA contains: Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Marshall … Continued