Blog Postings
2008 NFL Division Predictions
Posted by Mike Scriber on Thursday, July 24, 2008
Well the NFL season is about a month and a half way and football fans have been waiting for this day for months. The season kicks off with the defending Super Bowl Champions New York Giants taking on the Washington Redskins who have recently traded for Jason Taylor.
With this being said it's time for some predictions on who will win each division. Lets start in the AFC.
The AFC East has been dominated by the Patriots and will continue to be dominated by them. I see Buffalo taking second spot ahead of the Jets. To round out the division will be the Miami Dolphins who have a lot of work ahead of them to g
... read more.Form Design Patterns
Posted by Mike Scriber on Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Last week I found two great articles from one of my favorite daily reads, which is Smashing Magazine.
They did some research on a hot topic for designers. The topic was Web Form Design Patterns: Sign Up Forms. Make sure you check out Part Two as well.
These articles include categories like Placement, Design and Functionality of the Forms. In each category they're a bunch of sub categories which include Form Title, Label Alignment, Alignment of the Submit Button and many more. I think you'll take a lot from these ar
... read more.2008 MLB Home Run Derby
Posted by Mike Scriber on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
So those of you who saw the Home Run Derby last night were treated to an unbelievable story and show.
In the first round Josh Hamilton broke the single-round record held by Bobby Abreu at 24 home runs which was set in 2005 in Detroit. Josh crushed 28 and three of them were over 500 yards. One of those plus 500 yards put him in third place for the longest ever hit.
Josh had everyone in Yankee Stadium standing on their feet and chanting his name. This is quite remarkable considering Yankee fans aren't easy to win over.
Josh wasn't able to pull it out in the finals against Morneau to win the Home Run Derby but he put on a great show and it'll go down as one of the best rounds in a Derby.
FCKEditor Plugin for Rails
Posted by Nathan Rambarran on Friday, April 04, 2008
I want to give a big shout out to Scott Rutherford who made a Rails plugin for the ever so popular FCKEditor. I had the FCKEditor setup within two minutes and haven't hit a single speed bump in the implementation.
For those of you who don't know what FCKEditor is, it's a completely free WYSIWYG editor that's been around for a very long time and I've chosen to use it over TinyMCE, another popular but not AS free editor as FCKEditor time and time again.
Check out Scott's article and plugin at http://blog.caronsoftware.com/2006/08/07/fckeditor-plugin-for-rails
Share your iTunes with Mojo
Posted by Nathan Rambarran on Thursday, March 20, 2008
Holy Crap! It's arrived. Mike and I just found Mojo, music sharing for itunes, ridiculously easy to stream and download your friends jams from iTunes. It was a 2 second download and within 30 seconds I was streaming my first song from Mikes iTunes. Go get it for yourself and send it to all of your friends.
Firefox 3 Beta
Posted by Nathan Rambarran on Friday, March 14, 2008
Firefox 3 Beta is out and it's SWEET! I installed it on my mac early yesterday and I'm loving it. It's blazing fast. Switching between tabs and page loads are remarkably faster than Firefox 2. It feels like I'm flying. It's even got a new design which feels squeaky clean, could it be because my google and web developer toolbar extensions are missing? That's the only downfall I've found so far, none of my extensions from Firefox 2 work in Firefox 3.
Go check it out at: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Site of the Week: Spitball Cinema
Posted by Mike Scriber on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The first of many for the Site of the Week. I decided for the first Site of the Week, I would talk about Spitball Cinema. This site was actually developed by a good buddy of mine and college roommate.
So what is Spitball Cinema. Well I'm sure you've probably figured out what it is but here is some more insight. Spitball Cinema is a new movie community where they post the latest news, box office results, trailers and write there own movie reviews. You can also enter to win their Free DVD Giveaway by just writing movie reviews.
They're also wo
... read more.Internet Explorer 8 Beta Experiment
Posted by Mike Scriber on Thursday, March 06, 2008
So I took the plunge this morning after seeing on digg.com that Internet Explorer 8 Beta was available for download. It took about 15 minutes to complete the process, but I was also reading blogs, my analytics and checking out the NHL Playoff Race.
After the I restarted I clicked on the IE icon on the desktop and thought to myself nothing has really changed. One thing I did notice though was an Emulate IE7 button in the toolbar. Intrigued with this button I tested it out for about 30 minutes, just to check to see if it actually works. Behold f
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Posted by Mike Scriber on Tuesday, March 04, 2008
With a month to go in the rest of the 2007-2008 NHL Season, the playoffs are upon us. This creates some great hockey along with some uncertainty with teams on the edge of the playoffs. As well the teams that are currently the one through eight seeds fighting for position.
Watching this develop over the past month or so I've been annoyed with how the division winners automatically get the top three spots. For example take Carolina who has 73 points are the third seed. If they weren't winning the division they'd be fighting for the 8th playoff spot with the Bruins, Rangers, Flyers, Sabres, Islanders and Capitals. Some of you might argue that the Hurricanes are still fighting for the third seed and the 8th seed with the Capitals five points back. Which is the case but is it real
... read more.How to manage and organize your Sass files
Posted by Mike Scriber on Friday, February 22, 2008
First of all when it comes to organization of your Sass, it's a good idea to have a solid framework laid out. Once you have a framework laid out you can re-use this for your other projects. I like to use this basic framework:
- base.sass
- structure.sass
- styles.sass
- forms.sass
- variables.sass - This can be it's own file or in base.sass depending on how many variables you will have.
You can add files to this as well if you feel it's necessary, but this is a great start to Sass organization. When it comes to calling all these files I usually import them into the base.sass file at the bottom. The reason for this is because Sass will write the imports above all your base styles. This brings me to the import feature.
Import is ve
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About Mike
Mike Scriber is a front-end developer located in Toronto, Ontario. Mike takes pride in knowing his work is usable, accessible and standard compliant.
