An idea had struck me this afternoon that there might be some technology deep in the depths of Internet Explorer that might unlock the secret to easy rounded corners. Unfortunately, my initial idea fell flat and I was left in the same place I was before. However, bouncing from idea to idea, I thought to try VML. VML is an XML-based approach that Microsoft came up with and proposed it to the W3C. A...

Designers have blogs for a number of reasons. Often they want to show off their portfolio, maybe to expound theory, or whatever tickles their fancy. But as designers are creationists, they often have ...

After some inspiration from a recently published Bakery article, I decided to convert my multiple validation function into a Behavior. Even better, I've thrown it into my plugin collection to make it ...

Most contact forms take a name and feedback from a user and mail it off to the administrator but don't store any information in the database. This tutorial will show how to use CakePHP's models, even ...

In CakePHP, you define how your data should be validated by setting parameters on the validate property of your model. In version 1.2, there is an on option that can be set on a specific rule that, wh...

I just wanted to document this somewhere but whenever I work on a CakePHP project, there's always the debug info that sits at the bottom of the page. It's big and bulky and once I'm off the default Ca...

WIth a lot of talk about JSON these days, it's important to understand the syntax and how it differs from the object literal — or rather how it's a subset of it. The object literal is encapsula...

One common design feature is to have different visual treatments for alternating rows. As you iterate through a collection, you can use the modulo operator to determine if you're in an even or odd row...

I figured I'd share this little tidbit in the hopes it's not painfully obvious like, "here's why the sky is blue" but ever wanted a quick way to create those pixellated graphics? Here's how I do it. ...

Development frameworks are supposed to be our friends. Instead, they often just get in the way. Frameworks suck. What’s a framework? A framework is a set of libraries that attempt to make cert...

A number of people who saw the Prototype Dissected pictures seemed awed. "It must have taken forever to put them together." As the case happened to be, my time was really spent on working my way throu...