Tuesday July 9 2024

Original INI Editor by "bloomingranny" - click for larger view
I have used an INI Editor for several years now. It's not used often, but it is a handy utility that works hand-in-hand with an application launcher I wrote. The original is shown at the right. The source is a total of 119 lines –...
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Monday July 1 2024

What an appropriate image ... an elephant on the big top.
Bulma CSS released version 1.0.1 on May 20. It's actually larger in size than v1.0.0 ... a whopping internet-killing 714Kb. You'd think the minified version would help ... not much, the minified version of Bulma CSS v1.0.1 chokes the...
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Wednesday June 26 2024
Again last night: someone diagnosed (and hospitalized) with Acute Pancreatitis. I have a way of dealing with the pain without massive expenses, and without narcotics. Read on, thousands are already using it. (By the way, anything with "itis" in the name is inflammation - in this case, inflammation...
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Sunday June 23 2024
It's been awhile since I last posted.
I did complete my first project using My CSS Framework (I call it CSS Blade). It went as expected, rapid deployment. I did need to fix a few things along the way. I also ran into some other problems, unrelated to My CSS Framework.
One of the scripts I wrote...
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Friday June 7 2024

There are a number of posts that show a green background with a telephone number to report pets left in a vehicle. I must confess I reposted that on my Facebook page without first fact-checking. Mistake. THAT NUMBER IS NO LONGER VALID.
From the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society website:
If you...
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Monday June 3 2024

My CSS Framework progresses well and is getting all new components.
I previously wrote about a new Jumbotron feature. The Jumbotron can be any size, although it is best used to cover the entire width and height of the browser's view. You can fill it with an image and it will cover edge to edge,...
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Sunday June 2 2024

One of the components I am working on is a "read more" link (or button) that can display an arrow to the right, eased in and out on hover.
I got it working very nicely. When you hover over the Show Quickpanel button, a really nice arrow (unicode object) is eased into position over a 1s transition...
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Saturday June 1 2024
Everytime I look at the code for some Bulma stuff, I come away with raised eyebrows. While working on a Help Screen panel (similar to Bulma's Quickview), I decided to have a look at the Bulma Quickview Javascript that I downloaded some time back. The file is nicely named as "bulma-quickview.css" and...
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Friday May 31 2024

I have used FontAwesome for years now, many many years. When FontAwesome upgraded v4.7.0 to v5, I stayed with 4.7.0 for two reasons. The first is that the license for v5.0 was restrictive and introduced a pay model. The second is that the icons I needed were in 4.7.0 for free. Any additional icons I...
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Friday May 31 2024
My CSS Framework, CSS Blade, is in its final days of development. The code is fairly complete. I have divided it into three sections:
 Initialize section is a total of four files:
Font Awesome loader ... I am fixing this to a local load of Font Awesome v4.7 with only one font (the WOTF2...
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