Web Developer Training – jQuery
And now for our quarterly Web Developer Training (because monthly just wasn't happening). This quarters training is on the infamous (and my personal favorite js framework) jQuery. After recieving some requests for a training session on it, I finally got one put together and hope that it benefits everyone in some way. Also this training is sampling my new training template (not that the old team awesome template wasn't good enough, it just... well it wasn't as cool as this one 
) If you have any questions etc. throw them in the comments. Enjoy!
Web Developer Training - jQuery
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Developer Training – Sprites
Short post... because the full post is a minisite. The goodness of sprites cannot be discounted. They make for a faster site and a better user experience (except for your poorly cache-managed mobile devices... and for that the site really should implement agent identification and direct them to a smaller version of your site anyway). Anyway you can get the full scoop out on the tutorial-minisite.
Developer Training - Sprites (sponsered by Team Awesome)
Enjoy, and feel free to drop a comment or two 
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IETester: my new best friend for handling my worst enemy
I found a great tool out in the depths of the interweb, and I thought that I'd do a quick-ish post on it so that I can share the happiness with other people. The tool is called IETester, and it is brilliant. It seems to be a mdi container that is hooked into the api's of IE5.5, 6, 7, and 8 beta 1. This allows you to crack open a tab using each rendering engine and view your websites the way they would look in that browser.
This (above) is a screen shot of the program with the about pop up showing as well as several tabs open (all at nordictrack.com)
NordicTrack in IE 5.5 (above)
NordicTrack in IE 6 (above)
NordicTrack in IE7 (above)
NordicTrack in IE8 (above)
As you can see from the pictures, each release of IE handled the css styling and the page layout a little bit differently. It's almost fun to watch IE change from its quirky youth to an almost standards compliant browser (yes almost is a stretch isn't it).
BUGS:
Yeah you knew there'd be some, here's what I found, and what is posted on the developer's website.
- I almost went into epileptic shock while using it. Lots of screen flickering.
- It crashed on me the first time I opened it, not sure why.
- If you resize the screen, content may disapear.
- Flash may not work in the IE6 rendering engine (note: it did work for me at freemotion).
- Previous/Next buttons may not work.
- Focus doesn't work properly.
- Java applets esplode.
- Javascript loading may have problems... (may be the hidden cause of the screen flickering)
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