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		<title>Coda 2 Twilight-esque Color Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was excited to play with the latest version of Coda 2 from <a href="http://panic.com" target="_blank">Panic Software</a> today. However I needed to convert my coding color scheme into their new format (.sss).]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was excited to play with the latest version of Coda 2 from <a href="http://panic.com" target="_blank">Panic Software</a> today.</p>
<p>However I needed to convert my coding color scheme into their new format (.sss).<br />
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<img src="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/rgbTwilightColors.png" alt="" title="rgbTwilight Color Scheme" width="241" height="240" class="alignright" /> This scheme is based on of a version of twilight for textmate that I played with many years ago and have been tweaking ever since.</p>
<h4>Instructions:</h4>
<p>1. Right click or control click this link:<br />
<a href="http://www.rgbdesignstudio.com/wp-content/RGBtwilight.sss">RGB Twilight Color Scheme</a><br />
and select download linked file.</p>
<p>2. Open the Coda 2 preferences Window and select the Colors panel.</p>
<p>3. Select import from the gear icon and navigate to the file you download.</p>
<p>4. Enjoy</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently discovered flavors.me which offers a way to consolidate your social/web presence. It is a freemium service, but it does have quite a bit of nice functionality at the no cost tier. <a href="http://flavors.me/ecurtis">Check out my profile&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Code Snippets from Jeff Starr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Jeff Starr&#8217;s Work, especially his WordPress book co-authored with Chris Coyier. Late last year ...<a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/code-snippets-from-jeff-starr/"> Read More</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a huge fan of <a href="http://perishablepress.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Starr&#8217;s Work</a>, especially his <a href="http://digwp.com/book/" target="_blank">WordPress book</a> co-authored with <a href="http://css-tricks.com/" target="_blank">Chris Coyier</a>. Late last year he shared a plethora of <a href="http://perishablepress.com/code-snippets/" target="_blank">code snippets</a> that are worth checking out.</p>
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		<title>Tools for dealing Internet Explorer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Front end developers across the globe rejoiced when Microsoft finally started upgrading user browsers by default. Those same developers would ...<a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/tools-for-dealing-internet-explorer/"> Read More</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Front end developers across the globe rejoiced when Microsoft <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_to_developers_sorry_about_the_whole_ie6.php" target="_blank">finally</a> started upgrading user browsers by default. Those same developers would ask what took so long, ten years ago would have been a better time to do this.</p>
<p>Even though versions 6 and 7 of IE will continue to decline, we still need to test in 8, 9, and 10. Last year we got a some great new tools for doing just that.<br />
<span id="more-329"></span><br />
My favorite is <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575" target="_blank">Microsoft&#8217;s virtual drives</a> preconfigured with the aforementioned browsers. But to really take advantage of this you can use the free software, VirtualBox, on your Mac or Linux box. <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/test-websites-in-internet-explorer-9-8.html" target="_blank">Here is tutorial</a> on how to set this up.</p>
<p>A github user by the name of <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/xdissent" target="_blank">xdissent</a> has created <a href="https://github.com/xdissent/ievms" target="_blank">some scripts</a> that make the job of setting these up a little less painful.</p>
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		<title>If a Livefyre falls in the woods…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After researching three integrated commenting systems I have settled on a trial run of Livefyre. Since I mostly publish just ...<a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/if-a-livefyre-falls-in-the-woods/"> Read More</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After researching three integrated commenting systems I have settled on a trial run of <a href="http://livefyre.com" target="_blank"> Livefyre</a>. Since I mostly publish just to remind myself of useful resources or techniques this sight will not offer a viable stress test, however I would appreciate any comments, tweets, Facebook comments or suggestions. Cheers.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A recent project required that I use a google form, however when you embed them they come in with a white background in the iframe. After a little google searching I came across <a href="http://www.morningcopy.com.au/tutorials/how-to-style-google-forms/" target="_blank">this solution</a>. It also allows you to change the confirmation page which is a great improvement.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many great resources to help you code with WordPress. We have the IRC channel, the codex, the forums, great support sites like wptavern.com and the all-powerful google. I recently ran across a new one that has some great answers:</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/</a></p>
<p>I have used Stack Exchange for years but it is great to see a corner dedicated to my favorite CMS system.</p>
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		<title>Custom Post Type Index Page in WordPress 3.1 Beta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be well-known in a few days I am sure, however if you are looking to add an index ...<a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/custom-post-type-index-page-in-wordpress-3-1-beta/"> Read More</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This will be well-known in a few days I am sure, however if you are looking to add an index page to a custom post type in WordPress 3.1 Beta there are very few documents out there right now.<br />
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First of all you will need to know what to name the file so. They settled on archive-{postType}.php as it matches the way a single page is handled. For work you would have:<br />
archive-work.php<br />
single-work.php</p>
<p>The next step is to add &#8216;has_archive&#8217; =&gt; true in your arg variable.</p>
<p>Here is my code for the work section</p>
<pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">
add_action('init', 'my_custom_init');
function my_custom_init()
{
$labels = array(
'name' =&gt; _x('work', 'post type general name'),
'singular_name' =&gt; _x('work', 'post type singular name'),
'add_new' =&gt; _x('Add New', 'work'),
'add_new_item' =&gt; __('Add New work'),
'edit_item' =&gt; __('Edit work'),
'new_item' =&gt; __('New work'),
'view_item' =&gt; __('View work'),
'search_items' =&gt; __('Search work'),
'not_found' =&gt;  __('No work found'),
'not_found_in_trash' =&gt; __('No work found in Trash'),
'parent_item_colon' =&gt; '',
'menu_name' =&gt; 'Work' );

$args = array(
'labels' =&gt; $labels,
'public' =&gt; true,
'publicly_queryable' =&gt; true,
'show_ui' =&gt; true,
'show_in_menu' =&gt; true,
'query_var' =&gt; true,
'rewrite' =&gt; true,
'capability_type' =&gt; 'post',
'has_archive' =&gt; true,
'hierarchical' =&gt; false,
'menu_position' =&gt; null,
'supports' =&gt; array('title','editor','author','thumbnail','excerpt','comments','custom-fields','revisions'),
'taxonomies' =&gt; array('post_tag','category')
);
register_post_type('work',$args);
}
</pre>
<p>One final hint is that you will need to flush the cache the first time if this is a change. Add this after the above code and then delete it after you load the page.</p>
<pre class="brush: php; title: ; notranslate">add_action('admin_init', 'flush_rewrite_rules');</pre>
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		<title>A New Look – Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce the latest version of RGB Design Studio website. Check out my work and let me ...<a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/a-new-look-again/"> Read More</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am happy to announce the latest version of RGB Design Studio website. Check out my <a href="http://rgbdesignstudio.com/category/work/">work</a> and let me know how you like the site. Cheers.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Curtis</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you know what <a href="http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/pseudoclasses" target="_blank">pseudo classes in CSS</a> are? I did not until a couple of years ago, even though I have been using them for close to a decade. According to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pseudo-elements" target="_blank">W3C</a>, pseudo elements are:</p>
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<p><em>&#8220;Pseudo-elements create abstractions about the document tree beyond those specified by the document language. For instance, document languages do not offer mechanisms to access the first letter or first line of an element&#8217;s content. CSS pseudo-elements allow style sheet designers to refer to this otherwise inaccessible information&#8221;</em></p>
<p>If you develop websites, as I do, you most likely have been using them for years as well. Does this look familiar:</p>
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<li>a:link</li>
<li>a:visited</li>
<li>a:hover</li>
<li>a:active</li>
</ol>
<p class="top12">So the <strong>state</strong> of the link is not itself in the document tree (the html), but we can reference it in our CSS.</p>
<p>So why is it time to explore these very nifty developments in CSS now? Two reasons:</p>
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<li>As we can see at <a href="http://www.css3.info/modules/selector-compat/" target="_blank">CSS3.info</a> the number of selectors that are available to most browsers has grown in recent years.</li>
<li class="top8">And the <a title="ie7-js Google Code" href="http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/" target="blank">IE7/IE8 project</a>, spear-headed by Dean Edwards, which in their words is &#8211; &#8220;A JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.&#8221;</li>
</ol>
<p class="top12">A quick look at <a href="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/test/index.html" target="_blank">this page of examples</a> will show you how many more pseudo selectors this tiny bit of javascript code can add. I have used the code for years, and there is a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/ie7-js" target="_blank">google group</a> available for bug reporting and support.</p>
<p>Learning to use pseudo classes not only will add more ways of reaching items on your page, they will also help you get more out of the powerful javascript library <a href="http://jquery.com/" target="_blank">jQuery</a>.</p>
<p>In the past I decided not to dive too deeply into learning new CSS tricks that I could not make much use of due to IE5.5 and IE6 limitations. However with IE6 in it&#8217;s waning days, and the ability to shore up some of it&#8217;s short comings with the IE7-Javascript code, now is the time to jump in and an make us of these tools.</p>
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