December 2011
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Learning to Code - I did it this year. Your turn.
Next week marks the one year anniversary since I started to learn to code with no previous experience (I have a bullshit degree in marketing). I still worked full time on my startup while learning at night and on weekends. In 3 months I was contributing code to my startup, in 5 months I was writing webapps from the bottom up. Since then I’ve become the tech co-founder for my startup...
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Reset CSS in a Specific Element
I’m using a charting library that was getting mangled by my global css (foundation css and jqplot). The charting library’s css had certain elements that weren’t styled, but the global css I wrote does. Rather than go into the charting libraries css and make the modification to override each specific css element that was causing it to choke I decided I wanted to reset the css just...
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Django Form Validation and Ajax
Ready to ajaxify your django forms? Doing so with simple forms can be a breeze, just submit the form, check for is_ajax(), return an HttpResponse. Where it all falls apart is when you have multiple fields and multiple validation type of errors. You could write all the logic yourself on the front end javascript or you could get it for free with django forms. The point of this post is to show you...
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Find of the week: Foundation CSS
Foundation is an awesome responsive css framework from Zurb. I usually use 960gs, but after playing with Foundation for 5 minutes I decided to use it for my current project.
Here’s an example of it: http://nudgelystaging-qu6we2kn.dotcloud.com/
Why is it cool?
It will automatically resize your layout based on the screen size or device. For example, once the browser width reaches a certain...