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http://justinspegele.com/79-pure-css-drop-down-menu

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:17:51 -0700

I know there are plenty of these to go around lately, but I recently completed a pure CSS drop-down menu and I thought I'd share it with the world. JavaScript drop-down menus tend to give me more headaches than they're worth and I haven't been able to find a pure CSS menu that suits my needs (mainly cross-browser compatibility), so I set out to build my own; turns out it wasn't nearly the adventure I thought it was going to be.

CA Stock Exchange Simulation

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:20:20 -0700

Great way to learn about ITIL and a great team building experience as well.

Dating Tips: The Essence Of Being Cool - Mens Health

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:31:13 -0800

It would be nice to have been born good-looking, but even if you weren't, you can relax. Women don't care all that much if you're good-looking. But they do care if you're cool, so you can't totally relax.

spegele.com

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:15:09 -0800

Yesterday, the W3C published two documents that are very important to the future of web development. They released technical reports on HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. This draft represents a major leap forward for HTML which has not seen an update since HTML 4 was adopted in December of 1999.

spegele.com

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:52:56 -0800

From time to time in your PHP class adventures you may need to declare a variable as static or define a constant value. If you've ever used these objects in a language similar in syntax (i.e. C++), this should all be familiar, but if not, this tutorial will give you all the information to begin employing these important concepts. Those of you who are true PHP newbs, might want to check out the first 2 parts of this series; The Basics of PHP Classes and The Basics of PHP Abstract Classes.

http://www.spegele.com/post.php?post_id=91

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:24:19 -0800

For those of you out there who are still new to PHP, I'd like to discuss one of the languages most useful and most powerful features; its integration with MySQL. PHP and MySQL are integrated so seamlessly that almost anyone can create a dynamic web application based on the pair.

http://www.spegele.com/post.php?post_id=90

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:32:26 -0800

Today I'm going to delve a bit deeper into PHP classes and talk about abstract classes. An abstract class is a core class which provides default behavior for and is extendend by sub classes. It is important to note that an abstract class is very different from an interface. An interface defines how you work with a class, but does not define how the class itself works. With an abstract class you define the default behaviors of the class as well as what other functions the class needs to perform. Those other functions are simply declared in the abstract class, but are then defined in a class extension.

spegele.com

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:28:57 -0800

Here's a nice bit of CSS that will enlarge an image when that it is hovered over. What you need to do is create a link that contains two separate image tags and enclose that within a div that you can specify the height and width of.

http://www.spegele.com/post.php?post_id=88

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:28:59 -0800

A simple yet very useful little JavaScript function I wrote recently which limits the number of characters a user can put into a standard while displaying a running count of the number of characters left. The function takes 3 inputs; the ID of an element which contains the current count (in this case, a ), the ID of the input element, and the desired character limit.

Podcast Central

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:38:54 -0800

Podcast Central is a Squidoo lens dedicated to bringing you all of the latest podcasts/vidcasts from around the net. Take a look around, check out your favorite podcasts, discover new ones. In an age of reality television and writers strikes, podcasting is fast becoming the television of the future.