Computers & Programming

I looked around and there are a few different ways to get line numbers to show up in code that is posted on a blog or other web page. The most important thing about posting code on a web page is that it can be cut and pasted…

I was working on my kayaking web page and came up with a new feature. I wanted to allow the URL to include a parameter for highlighting a specific route. “Highlighting” the route means the map will be zoomed in and panned to the location of the route…

At work, I do a little bit of web design because there is a web interface to our product. Customers buy a computer from us that comes with Apache and a website for accessing our product remotely. I wanted to improve the site by making footers stick to…

I did some work on the kayaking trips web page. The page shows a list of routes I took on various paddling outings. The page looks something like this: Updated Kayaking Page This is not a log of all trips but is instead a list of routes I’ve…

tr { overflow: hidden; } is bad. It turns out that this simple CSS option causes rows cells that span rows to overwrite or hide content in the cells that they span. Unfortunately, I can’t create a simple example. The page where I saw this uses an external…

My previous blog entry has a link to another site. It is not just a link but is actually a form that is submitted to the other site. This caused an interesting problem during implementation. These blog entries have HTML enabled so I can do some formatting and…

I know of a site where I can get a chart that shows the temperature of Lake Tahoe taken from a few different research buoys in the lake. It’s a great resource but it’s a bit painful to use. I have created a form in this blog post…

In the process of copying content from www.rectorsquid.com, I decided to include a link to my kayaking trip map page. The image below is a snapshot of the page but is not up-to-date. Click on the image to go to the map page and see the most up-to-date…