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.
You don't have to search too far to understand the importance of the H1 tag. It's fundamental to good SEO. Power Digital Marketing says "The H1 tag is the most important main heading on a page because it's the highest heading level tag that shows what your page or blog post is about. As a result,...
As I spend more time writing my own framework, it occurs that it really is the only way to meet your exacting needs. Approach this as a developer. The first issue is how your project will appear on various browsers. You can't avoid this, it is impossible. You cannot control what browser users will...
Bulma is a CSS framework that I have used in the past. I was engaged in the framework and developed quite a few websites with the code base, starting with v0.9.4. I did have some concerns ... Bulma is a huge size. I need to make it clear: I do not use any CSS pre-processor. I use the CDN as...
There is no way of creating a new CSS framework, classless or class-light, without a thorough knowledge of HTML5. One aspect of HTML5 is the new structure the specification brings with it. Some, with controversy (or at least confusion). The new layout semantic...
It really is getting easy. The key to going classless is to treat everything as a block. First, there is the "wrapper" itself. Most of the time that is <section, or <article, or even a <div with a class name something like class="hero-wrapper" ... recognize that? It's that "wrapper"...
I stumbled onto a site that featured a responsive horizontal card. The HTML structure for each sample card was a minimum of 458 bytes. The CSS was a total of 116 lines of code. It was an interesting structure for both the CSS and HTML ... I re factored the CSS as a nested classless structure and...