Welcome to my blog. Enjoy reading and go on a multitude of adventures with me covering bikes, photography, programming, and some "sharp" opinions.
Nothing here is in any particular order or timeline. I have several areas of interest and will speak to all of those at various points.
Photography is my hobby. I am retired and much of my time is in learning, shooting, and gear.
Programming is the result of many years of running my own business focused on websites and internet applications. I have contributed to the "open source" community and continue to do that.
School Bus ... well, for the most part, school bus. I have also driven transit buses (for one summer). I am also a driver trainer and Signing Authority.
Open Source Projects ... specifically to discuss my most recent activities with the next generation of PHPMailer (PHPMailer Pro, PHPMailer Lite), Form Tools (PHPMailer-FVE for form validation and emailing), PHPMailer-BMH (Bounce Mail Handler), as well as past projects.
CSS, Javscript, (x)HTML is a discussion of my experiences dealing primarily with CSS frameworks.
Health is a discussion of my experiences dealing with Idiopathic Chronic Pancreatitis and related issues. I have documented my DIY self-treatment program that has kept me pain free since January 26 2012 – with absolutely no prescription medication (no narcotics).
If you are here looking for blood glucose information, including measuring devices and installation instructions: I have removed all of those articles.
Is it right? Can you still call a framework classless if you use data- attributes? or "roll"? That would look like: <div data-grid> and <div roll="grid"> .... I am going through the process of trying to create a CSS classless framework. I've got some great components already, including...
As I evaluated the grid code, it occurred to me that the "blade" part of the name I chose "CSS Blade" meant cutting the garbage out of CSS code ... all to achieve a minimum CSS file size. I decided to re-evaluate all the CSS code I had written to this point. All with one main question: Can I write...
There have been many eureka moments while developing my CSS "framework" (called CSS Blade). The first came when I decided to separate the modules into "classless" and "class-lite". That worked beautifully. The class-lite modules came together really well, I am proud to say. While I did not...
Reminder, here's what my classless form icons look like: I wanted a really simple pure HTML mock up with the CSS doing the work – and without using any classes at all. Just plain semantic HTML. The only class being used is the icon itself. I used the Font Awesome (v4.7.0) library in its default...
A lot easier than I thought. Icons on the left, icons on the right. And completely classless. I'm going to post the HTML code I expected to work. Tomorrow I will post the actual CSS. I have a bit of cleanup work to do (I use borders to give me visual clues for debugging purposes). Before I post...
A comment to start: watching the status of Classless and Class-light frameworks ... nice to see some major progress in this area. One Class-light framework has gone a bit too far though. The Class-light should not venture too far into the 12-grid mindset. Keep in mind that the 12-grid framework came...