2004 Comes to a Close

Been so busy working on a new project that I almost missed putting something out before the end of 2004. Guess that really proves my geekness; 1. I am spending New Year's Eve coding and 2. I feel the need to blog before the end of the year. :) This year has not been bad, everyone in my family is healthy and safe. I hope 2005 brings the same fortune.

As I mentioned, I was really geeking today. I was using two hands to run three different machines. My main workstation where I was developing, my laptop where I had doco and examples up for reference and a mySQL admin session going on my web server to monitor the databases I was working with. Add a big cup of coffee and music from Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X) filling my headphones and it was geek nirvana.

I am working on a new scouting related site while I wait to see if I win any of the bids I have submitted. This site has a more detailed graphical layout than some sites but download times are still very good and the navigation is clear and logical. Once I get the template finalized I will post a link in my blog for comments and suggestions. The best thing was that figured out a CSS issue that I have been struggling with for sometime. I have entries in an external style sheet to control the behavior of links (color, text decoration, background etc.). I could not get the visited links to work correctly in FireFox. Worked ok in IE. Turns out that I had an extra parameter in the element definitions; e.g. .nav a:link:visited instead of
.nav a:visited. I figured it out by looking at another of my projects where the style sheet was working correctly. Those details will get you all the time.

Back to work on Monday. I will be diving right into my work project. I have been doing some research and testing while on vacation and am ready to get going on the project. We will see what changes when everyone gets back from vacation.

I hope that each of you has a safe and happy New Year. I will be back with you in the new year.