This is actually a new iteration of my portfolio website. One of the things that makes this version interesting (aside from a new look) is that it's built on top of a new foundation application that I hope to eventually market. I unfortunately will not be going into detail as to what makes this application so unique and special enough to market, but hopefully the shiny-ness of it will prove distracting at the very least.

During one of my web crawls I'm prone to do reading other developers work, I came across an interesting demo on CSS-Tricks (not that I can see what the demo does).

I really liked the look of the form, specifically the inset of the form legend. What was kind of silly is it appeared the entire form sits on top of a large image, a jpg in fact (appalling, I know).

So I started to wonder how plausible it would be to recreate the entire form (or mainly the inset legend and shadows) with pure css. Of course the plausibility for cross-browser compatibility may be less realistic but I still thought it would be an interesting demo.

Here's the result of what I was able to come up with (with a toggle to an alternative style if you want to toy with the drop shadow).

After a brief discussion on IRC about the new IOS5 features I decided to compile a concrete list of the Android-equivalent to every IOS5 feature. And just to rub it in, I figure I'll list a few things I doubt IOS will ever be capable of doing, heh.

There is one point that I will concede to Apple and that is that applications for android are UGLY. This is of course because of all the third-party development, but it would be nice if this could be a bit more streamlined.

I think the best way to do this would be to allow users to hack and/or tweak their applications since they're all Java based anyway.

I've been getting pretty annoyed at some of the fairly repetitive formatting I do while editing html for my CakePHP projects. So I decided to try making my own snippet/command that does exactly what I want. Normally I use Ctrl+Shift+W to wrap a selection in a set of tags, but I'll always end up adding a few newline characters and indenting the wrapped content for block-level tags. Here is a command that does it for you instead, either to the highlighted lines (use full-line selections) or the current line of the cursor.

Long title, but you should recognize the motto. I was working on adding features to BakingPlate when I realized something. I've always worried when I would actually be able to start contributing to the core of OpenSource projects like CakePHP when it dawned on me. All of this could go into Cake2.

Although I have no longer been working on this plugin since I left ISV, however I was recently contacted on github by someone who may be interested in picking up this project.

Update: It seems I have not heard back from the guy so he may have moved on to other projects.