Bootstrap navbar overflow strategy

Although it can be complicated markup, the Bootstrap navbar does have lots of features.  Unfortunately, the component does not handle menu overflow, as stated within a warning box on the official Bootstrap site. Generally, the content wraps decently except for when...

Flip your upside-down screen

My mother-in-law just called about an issue where her computer screen was displayed completely upside-down.  It was not just the desktop image, but also the icons (and everything).  She felt like it happened when she was logging out. Turns out that Windows XP has a...

Handling todo lists

I deal with a number of todo lists.  When coding, I place sentinels throughout the source that typically look something like this: //DAN-NOTE: do x, y, and z //DAN-CONTINUE: when picking up on this, consider these //DAN-DEBUG: get rid of this once done fixing blah...

Web-sharing tools

I’m using this post as a reminder on which tools are helpful for improving social and search networks. Facebook Object Debugger: Use this to ensure that Facebook is scanning the website properly.  Especially useful for ensuring the preview image appears...

Escaping LESS parameters

For example purposes, here is a LESS mixin that looks something like this: .make-blue( @selector ) { @(selector) { background: blue; } }   To call it, I originally did something like this: .make-blue( ‘div’ );   That produced output like this:...