Woke up early this morning to drive up to the Philly Airport to pickup a puppy my brother bought online. Guess you really can buy anything online. The drive there wasn’t too eventful, got there with no problems. Took a little bit to find the cargo place we had to go for pickup, Frank’s not the finest under pressure.
It’s an American Bulldog who will go by the name of Elvis. Seems like a good dog, slept the ride home and has slept for most of the day today actually.
Decided to use the YUI Menu to build around for a client’s project. As with all the YUI components I’ve worked with it’s really well documented and has lots of examples that really helped me to implement and customize it for their needs very quickly.
I’m building it on existing markup (it can also be created via Javascript) so that it supports progressive enhancement. Here’s a very raw example of it in use.
At Target on lunch break today I finally picked out something to give my Mom on Mother’s Day. It’s a talking Puss ‘n Boots stuffed animal from the Shrek 3 movie. He’s pretty cool. He talks when you walk by him or scratch his head. Though walking around with him in the store and at checkout was kinda weird when he continued to whistle at whomever was nearby.
Thanks to the API provided by YouTube I was able to use a script to make REST calls from my channel on YouTube to automatically post my most recent videos uploaded on this blog.
The REST call is simple:
http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.list_by_user&dev_id=id&user=user
It returns the following:
Then I wrote a script using the YUI Connection Manager to call it into the page.
I’ve gotta do some CSS styling still, but the basic functionality is there.
Attribute selectors which will hopefully become official when CSS 3 is passed are pretty cool. They work on most modern browsers, with the big exception being IE6/Win (not that I’d consider it modern by any means).
Here’s an example that applies a background image to a link only if it contains the pdf extension in it’s href
a[href$=".pdf"] {
background: url(../images/acrobat.png) no-repeat right top;
padding-right: 14px;
}
Was meeting with a potential client with what seems like a pretty cool potential project in Galloway. Not too familiar with the area, but was able to find the spot on time despite taking a wrong turn or two.
Getting home was a whole different story. Not sure exactly where and when I initially got lost but I was lost for a good 40 minutes with not much gas in the tank. Somehow managed to drive thru Cologne, Germana, and the Pilgrim Academy just to name a few. It’s just woods out there, nowhere to pull over and ask for directions. Very bizarre. Somehow managed to find myself on the White Horse Pike and finally had some idea where I was.