Author Archives: Frank

Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu Black Screen

I recently had an issue with encountering a black screen and a black “X” cursor with Chrome Remote Desktop on Ubuntu 20.1 A few searches led me to a stack overflow entry from 2014. However, I’m lazy so I figured … Continue reading

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Add Git Bash to Windows Terminal (Preview)

To add Git Bash as a tab to your Windows Terminal, use the “V” icon and select “Settings” or press “Ctrl + ,” This will open up the profiles.json file in your defined editor. Add an entry to “profiles:” , … Continue reading

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Sass in Sublime Text – A lesson in RTFM

‘sass’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. [Finished in 0.4s with exit code 1] I received this error when attempting to build / compile SASS into css. If you’ve been trying to utilize features … Continue reading

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jQuery Bread Crumb Trail Plugin

This plugin will take the URI segment of the URL and split it into links based on directory names. This is not the most attractive method of doing this, but is very useful when trying to add breadcrumbs to older … Continue reading

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Simple Animated Content Slider with jQuery

Content sliders are fairly simple things to implement, as they can be built with using only a few basic pieces of html, css, and javascript ( if you are focusing development on css3, javascript is not needed at all ). … Continue reading

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Mental Ray – Light Scattering

While tweaking shaders, textures and bump maps for tree bark and ivy, I set to create a ‘depth’ to the textures; for light to enter, bounce around inside, giving a sense of depth to the surface. However, not entirely successul, … Continue reading

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(Android) PhoneGap Cordova 1.5 menubutton and searchbutton with jQuery Mobile

Using PhoneGap (Cordova) 1.5, I ran into an issue with the physical buttons on the Android device, specifically I was trying to bind handlers to “menubutton”, “searchbutton”, and use them to navigate within a jQuery Mobile app. However, these buttons … Continue reading

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(Android) DroidGap Cordova 1.5 – Error with “Getting Started”

Here is a simple fix to get the new version of DroidGap (1.5) working on Android. The “Getting Started” section for android simply states an incorrect import. “import com.phonegap.*” If Ecplise is showing errors, change it to “import org.apache.cordova.*” If … Continue reading

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Affecting a series of (recursive) elements with css

Many sites use some form of rating system for content – here is an example of how to create series of elements for a ranking meter using only html and css. HTML <div id=”stars”> <div class=”star”> <div class=”star”> <div class=”star”> … Continue reading

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CSS Double Border

Today I came across an interesting prospect – How to emulate a double border using only CSS. This can be achieved with the :before and :after pseudo selectors. xhtml <div id=”myDiv”>Some Text Here</div> CSS #myDiv, #myDiv:after { display:block; background:#00f; width:100px; } #myDiv:after … Continue reading

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