Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is short, sweet, and to the point. I have poorly thought out, weak, and unqualified opinions on gun control. But there are views on guns which match my own, but they’ve been formulated by someone who did think them … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
Guns: Enough already
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the shootings in Aurora happened, I stirred up enough trouble with an angry midnight rant and the unexpected attention that I hoped not to say anything else on the subject. But..I can’t help it. We have a shooting in … Continue reading
How Texas Can Secede (without really trying)
Reading Time: 11 minutesYou don’t have to know me very long to know that I’m a native Texan who takes great pride in seeing “Texas” as the country of origin on my birth certificate. I love my state and I find it hard … Continue reading
CSS for a CMS: Adapting to what the content author puts on the page
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking in Content Management System (CMS) implementations has its challenges. While some of those challenges are in the application itself, many can be with the content authors. Content authors expect a certain amount of flexibility in how they can add … Continue reading
CSS3: Structural Pseudo-Class Patterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we’ve never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document … Continue reading
HTML5, SDL Tridion, and a dab o’ jQuery
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt Tahzoo, we pretty much shoot for HTML5 websites 100% of the time; the only time the project isn’t HTML5 is if the client explicitly says so. We have a current client whose HTML5 site also required some fun Ajax … Continue reading
A Short Biography of a Polyglot
Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve loved learning languages for most of my life. Because I hold degrees in two languages and demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in several others, I sometimes get asked how many languages I know, or when, or how, I started … Continue reading
The Performative Verb and Jesus
Reading Time: 4 minutesFour or five years ago when I was still considering seminary, I wrote on a few topics within Christianity for the heck of it. So I think it was a Wednesday night around 10:00 pm that I wrote this. About … Continue reading
Developing Web Tools with a Good User Interface
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few months I’ve been developing three different web-based tools. All three are things that I started as tools for me, and it was after talking to other folks that I learned they might ultimately be useful for … Continue reading
Gun Debates Don’t Fix People Problems
Reading Time: 9 minutesIt’s only a few weeks after what happened in Aurora that we see it again: One person steals life from another. He shows the world how little he values life— and he really worships death in cruel and sick ways. … Continue reading