My name is Edward Tanguay. I'm an American software and web developer living and working in Berlin, Germany.
3 hours ago: If you are a developer in Berlin and need to improve your English, I'm looking for groups to teach after work: http://tanguay.info/itenglish.
5 hours ago: As far as I'm concerned, the singularity is already here, every time I wake up twitter tells me something amazing was created while I slept.
5 hours ago: We're not suffering from information overload, we're suffering from faulty filtering.
5 hours ago: Classic literature for free as nicely formatted 1-page or 2-page PDF downloads: http://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks.asp.
5 hours ago: Yes, when you pour coffee, "a lightning storm of neuronal activity occurs almost across the entire brain": http://is.gd/eWO1T @pholdings.
22 hours ago: If you put two spaces after a period or use underlining for emphasis, you were born before 1980.
22 hours ago: Word of the day: infovore, n. an animal with a voracious appetite for information.
yesterday: It's said that on average people use less than 10% of their brain, but I think on average computers use less than 1% of their CPU.
2 days ago: Saturday fun: team drawing on two computers with six-year-old in a shared google doc diagram.
2 days ago: Someday I want to produce a developer podcast called "What's that?" but for now "the developer's life" is a nice genre: http://is.gd/eTURO.
3 days ago: Here's a use-case for datapod format, recording human-readable data that later can be used as a datasource: http://is.gd/eSsLg @pholdings.

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Now that we have semi-compatible browsers (Firefox, IE7, Safari, Opera), using ccascading style sheets is even starting to be fun, but does not come without hours and hours of frustration leaving floats, etc. Advice for web developers: learning something about CSS every day.
 
CSS CODE EXAMPLE created on Sunday, March 08, 2009 permalink
How to absolutely position DIVs inside a relatively positioned DIV
I needed to have a centered web-2.0-looking site that had a number of centered sections (e.g. header, body, footer) and in each of these sections needed to be absolutely position elements. Here is some clean HTML/CSS to get you started.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://data.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Title</title>

<style type="text/css">

body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 10px;
}

#headerArea {
    position: relative;
    background: yellow;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 760px;
    height: 150px;
}

#headerArea div {
    position: absolute;
}

#logo {
    top: 20px;
    left: 20px;
    background: orange;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 32pt;
    width: 150px;
    padding: 10px;
}

#menu {
    top: 20px;
    right: 20px;
    background: tomato;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 14pt;
    width: 240px;
    padding: 10px;
}


#line {
    top: 80px;
    left: 20px;
    width: 720px;
    border-top: 1px solid blue;
}

#title {
    top: 90px;
    right: 20px;
    font-style: italic;
    font-size: 14pt;
}

</style>

</head>

<body>
    <div id="headerArea">
        <div id="line"></div>
        <div id="logo">LOGO</div>
        <div id="menu">One Two Three Four Five</div>
        <div id="title">This is the Title a Bit Longer</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
 
CSS ARTICLE created on Friday, January 02, 2009 permalink
Looks like an article explaning how to get columns to be the same height in CSS like you can do it so easily in tables.