I have found there are A LOT of things that can go wrong with a Rails deployment, even if your ‘Developer Friendly RoR Host’ offers ‘Fast Rails Deployment’ and ‘Incredible Ruby Hosting’ and you are merely trying to deploy a simple ‘Hello World’ app. Continue reading
In this tutorial I will show you a brief example of just such an alternative. In the example we have an <abbr> with a tooltip. I use the <abbr> tag for two important reasons. First, in modern browsers, <abbr> tags will produce a browser tooltip by default anyway so we will have graceful degradation. Second, we leverage this by putting the text of the tooltip in the <abbr>‘s title attribute and this allows us to use jQuery to grab this text and use it for the content of our custom tooltip. Continue reading
So I was really impressed with the new buttons that ShareThis is offering now but was disappointed to find out that they don’t currently support them for WordPress (If you use their WordPress plug-in you get the old version of the ShareThis button).The new ShareThis WordPress plug-in has been released and you can find it here. But, they did provide some copy & paste code, so I figured where there’s a will there’s a way (As you can see from the counters below this post there’s a happy ending to this story!). Continue reading
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Substitute Click for Hover on Touch Devices