Finally, a brand spanking new version of Coda-Slider. Some links:
- Demos
- Download
- Documentation: Installation | Settings
If you need help or troubleshooting, please register and ask in the Coda-Slider 2.0 forum.
October 12, 2009
The redesign
Some quick info about the redesign of this site, which went live back on September 26th.
Split in two
Before this redesign, there was just ndoherty.com, where the primary focus was on web development. With the redesign, I decided I needed two sites: ndoherty.com became devoted to my thoughts on personal growth, while ndoherty.biz now plays host to the web design goodness. No point mixing those two subjects all together on one site.
The design of both sites is exactly the same, except for some subtle color differences.
September 15, 2009
Learn jQuery, Save a Puppy
Lucky me was given the opportunity to review Learning jQuery 1.3, so that’s what I’m going to do in this post. You can buy the book via this link, and the full 12% referral commission I get from your purchase will be donated to the Humane Society of Louisiana.
But don’t go clicking and buying just because you like puppies. Read on to find out if this book is right for you, and there’s even a link to a free chapter at the bottom of this post so you can get a feel for it.
First off, a disclaimer: I’m not a hardcore programmer by any means. Functions and arguments and variable scopings make my head spin. I’m more of a jack-of-all-trades web developer who knows enough programming to hack away at some Ruby on Rails or PHP or jQuery and come away with something nice. Rarely something perfect, but nice nonetheless.
November 22, 2007
Windows Vista: Services and msconfig
Yesterday I decided to help a friend setup a secure wireless connection on her newish Compaq Presario F500 notebook. She only has it a few months, and it came with Windows Vista. I’m still running Windows XP myself (although the Mac conversion is looming, trust me), and I haven’t had much dealings with Vista. From what I had seen and heard of Microsoft’s latest OS, I wasn’t overly impressed.
Anyway, I setup the wireless connection using the WEP key I’d gotten from my friend’s Netgear router, going about it the same way I would on Windows XP. The process is almost automatic for me since I’d talked people through it literally hundreds of times as an AOL technical support agent a couple of years ago. Everything seemed to be in the same place and I did what I usually do, but the wireless just wouldn’t hook up. It was about then that my friend noted that the machine had been running a bit slower than usual lately. Fine, I’d just untick a few things that looked unnecessary in msconfig (start > run > msconfig > startup tab) and reboot. Maybe that would get the wireless working, too.
Big mistake.