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Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat
As many of you may already know, my day job includes managing a large and complex enterprise jQuery-based user interface component library. It’s used by all new web applications at the company, which boasts over an IT department of approximately 1500 people and hundreds of web applications. Needless to say, I get a fair volume [...]
The “24″ Clock on ALARMd
If you’re only using @font-face for titles and text, you’re missing out on a whole wealth of use cases that have yet to be explored. For instance, I created a very simple 7 Segment Display Numeric font to be used for a skin on alarmd.com and changed the color using nothing but CSS to create [...]
ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day
In honor of 1234567890 day, I’ve added the Unix time format to ALARMd. Hit Options, then the Clock Format tab to change to Unix Time. Enjoy!
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ALARMd is a Google Code Project
I received a request this week to participate in development of the internet alarm clock I developed awhile back called ALARMd. It has gone through two major revisions, and my interest in contributing additional source code to the project is waning. I’ve got other projects. So, I’ve decided to publish it to Google Code. I [...]
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ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration
Take a look: ALARMd 2 Beta Update: added Metric and Unit Circle time formats. I know, some of you are reading this and thinking to yourself — genital herpes is more appealing than yet another online alarm clock. But to that I say, congratulations, that’s one of the new features in ALARMd 2! Why did [...]
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