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Using jQuery To Show A Form Over A Reduced-Opacity Image

It’s an awful thing, waiting for a question at Yahoo! Answers that would be fun to discuss as a blog entry. There is an awful lot of chaff to be sorted before one finds such wheat, and even then, sometimes the supposed grains turn out to be mouse turds.
Consider the following:
How would this be done? [...]

Fluid Blue Gets The Nod

Your eyes do not deceive you; I have changed themes, once again.
I really liked Barthelme. Especially nice about it was that it has lots and lots of style hooks. If I were more industrious, I would download its sister theme, blog.txt, which has the same style hooks, and get to putting together CSS worthy of [...]

Better Managing Your PHP Application Via Modularization And Abstraction

Most Web sites are designed within a template or two. That is, the layout, typography and basic design of every page is fundamentally the same for most, if not all, pages.
Also, most Web pages tend to need the same resources. If you have a database-driven site, many pages need to use the same connection; other [...]

Goodbye, TypoXP; Hello, Barthelme; Welcome Back, WP-Syntax; Tag, You’re It

You’ve probably noticed I’ve been putting in some work on this blog lately.
Amid all the tweaking, one fact became obvious: I was going to need to make significant changes to the TypoXP theme to get it fully compatible with post-WordPress 2.3 releases.
I thought long and hard about that. I really like TypoXP and I wanted [...]

Fixing Various Issues With The Sociable Plug-In For WordPress

I decided recently that I wanted to use a social bookmarking plug-in* on this blog. The choice came down to one of two: Add To Any or Sociable.
After a day of fiddling with both, I finally opted for Sociable. Both plug-ins are very good, and each has things it does better than the other. The [...]

A Charity Donation Recognition System Using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript And DOM

Recently asked on Yahoo! Answers:

Divide photo in 5,000 pieces with rollover text?
we are raising money and selling support tickets. To show our progress we are going to start with a black and white image split in 5,000 pieces then as each piece is sold we want to turn it into color.
When you roll over each [...]