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I always thought that CSS lacks in expressiveness which is far below the one of XPath. For example you can’t select elements based on their child elements. How nice would it be if you could format anker tags if and … Continue reading
Tired of bright red, green or blue? Then try out the Color Wizard on colorsontheweb.com. Given one color the tool gives you 3 variations (hue, saturation and tint&shade) as much as 6 corresponding colors (monochromatic, analogous, triadic, tetradic, complimentary and … Continue reading
You are an enthusiastic WordPress user? You want to implement a Flash based WordPress front end / theme? You want to use WordPress as a back end for you software? My new WordPress Web Service plugin is your solution! WPWS … Continue reading
HTML5 Boilerplate Starkers WordPress Theme HTML 5 Boilerplate WordPress Theme WordPress Child Theme with minimal PHP code (main script/css includes) screenshots of bkahlert.com 1.0
Zachary Johnson and Paul Hayes showed some really nice examples of the CSS 2D transformation capabilites (isocube, 3D isocube using 2D CSS). What I missed was the math behind it. Both (and every other isocube I could find on the … Continue reading
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Every tried to use vertical-align on block elements and wondered why it doesn’t work. Read this great article to find out how to center vertically.
Four days ago at 11:30 I finished my Master thesis. Everyone knows the term usability but only a few the special aspect called out-of-box experience. In short OOBE is about the experience a user has when first confronted with a product. … Continue reading
Nice try. A worm has started to spread over Facebook promising the user a video where the killed Osama Bin Laden can be seen. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Osama-Bin-Laden-Killed-Live-on-Video/201198676585608?sk=app_190322544333196&71029 On the corresponding Facebook profile you are asked to copy a javascript … Continue reading
Yesterday Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt, Kent Beck and me had a Saros session. Have a look on what Kent Beck has to say about Saros.
Ever heard of bit.ly or TinyURL.com? In short those services offer the shortening of (long) URLs so the link becomes easier to read and to publish, e.g. on Twitter. I do not deny that advantage whereas I criticize that none of … Continue reading
Last month I finished my Bachelor thesis with the German title Client-Server-Kommunikation für humanoide Roboter (engl. “Client-Server Communication for Humanoid Robots”). Within the framework of this work I implemented an application based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) that allows … Continue reading
About two years ago I created a smart vocabulary trainer based on Hermann Ebbinghaus‘s learning curve to prepare myself for my year abroad in Paris. The trainer’s basic idea is the same as when you try to memorize words, phrases or … Continue reading