Dad's Blog

October 23, 2006

MON 23 OCT 2006

Once a Rock Star...Now a Geezer By Robert

I got an email from my college roomate with a pic of him rocking out with a Gibson Firebird and I'm trying to decide how I feel about it.

After some thought I know how I feel. Music has been a great part of my life. It's given me my best friends, my spouse, and a lifelong creative outlet. The pic is terrific.

October 9, 2006

MON 9 OCT 2006

Oh My !!! By Robert

The Porsche Panamera

The Panamera is the first Porsche sedan. It will be available as either a two door or four door. I think Porsche should have done this sooner instead of wasting their design cycles shoehorning the Cayman into the narrow gap between the Boxster 'S' and the Carerra. It's supposed to be out in 2009 which is right around when I will have 50K-mi. on my Carerra. Plus I'm getting old so I need to think about settling down and driving something more sensible.

September 28, 2006

THU 28 SEP 2006

Book: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (... By Robert

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions (... (by Andy Budd; Simon Collison; Cameron Moll)

I have read a number of books on CSS and this is the best of the lot. This isn't a reference manual, for that you should get ORielly's Definitive Guide. It goes through the common tasks you find yourself doing with CSS and shows you the popular methods of doing it. Using lists for menus and nav-bars, styling images, drop shadows, rounded corners, table-less layout, styled forms, and hacks and filters. This is a great task oriented book with thoughtful explanations of what's going on. It ends with two real world case studies that put together complete websites using CSS. You should download the patches because there are errors especially in the liquid layouts in the printed version of the book.

If you're past the primer stage and want to really see what you can do with CSS then this is a great book for you.