Code Tips & Tricks
Every week i will be posting a tip or trick to help you out when your coding.
Each day my commute takes anywhere from 45 minutes to 1 hour depending on the traffic and if I ride the bus. About a year ago, I decided to make the most of the stop and go traffic and start listening to podcasts in hopes that I might learn a thing or two. Most people at work know that I am an avid podcast listener and always ask me for my favorites, so I figured I would compile a list of my top tech/geek podcasts.
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Many of us us roll over images on our navigation or other items in our web pages. One thing that can be problematically is users with slow connections or larger images can cause a flashing when you roll over when the file is being downloaded. One way to solve this is to use JavaScript to preload your images on the page. However, there is a much easier way to do it with just a little CSS. The first thing to do is to create the images for the roll overs. Once you have these don what you need to...
Documentation is the coders best and worst friend. It is a two sided sword, it makes your life easier but no one likes writing it. So coders do what we do best and find a way to make the computer do it for us. There are two tools which I use on a regular basis when I'm working on a project. while these tools do not work perfectly they do cut down the amount of work it takes to get good project documentation.
The first step and probably the most useful to a coder is XML comments. These are the comments...