Jason Melgoza

It's Clear

2012-02-22

This app has earned a top spot on my iPhone home screen. Slick design, simple to use, and great pinch and zoom responsiveness – and it’s just a todo app.

4 stars.

Prime Burger

2012-02-17

A Midtown Manhattan Burger joint – unchanged since the 1960s.

Anchor CMS

2012-02-12

Looking for a new light-weight, well designed, open source blogging solution? Take a look at Anchor.

CSS3 Selectors

2012-02-07

When taking a close look at the markup from Twitter’s Bootstrap (an amazing project by the way) I came across this little nugget.

[class*="span"] {
  float: left;
}

Which targets this little stub of HTML.

<div class="span3">
 ...
</div>

My initial re-action was “What the Hell – span does not equal span3!”, but after calming down I did little digging and I’m now pleased to learned something new about CSS – and that is CSS3 Attribute Selectors.

Put best by this SitePoint reference article.

[CSS3 Attribute Selectors] give us the ability to make partial matches to attribute values—we can match strings at the start, end, or anywhere within an attribute value.

Here’s a sample of these three CSS definitions:

To target a selector that starts with the value “span” use the following

[class^="span"]

For a selector that ends with “span” use

[class$="span"]

and for a selector that just plain contains “span”

[class*="span"]

Now if you like to get little creative with your stylesheets (and who doesn’t – really?) then the benefits here are clear. With this we can target a large range of elements, such as grid columns, with less CSS.

Like more on the subject? Here’s a 2006 post from Roger Johansson’s 456 Berea St with a larger list of selectors.

Ridiculous and Pointless

2012-02-02

In 2005, the bad-boy artist was commissioned to paint murals at the first corporate headquarters of Facebook. As payment, he was offered the choice of cash or shares of Facebook stock. Although he said the very idea of Facebook seemed “ridiculous and pointless” at the time, he chose the stock.

He chose wisely.

f—– ya he did.

Wow

2012-01-24

Apple's profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google's entire revenue ($10.6 billion).
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) January 24, 2012

Wilson Miner - When We Build

2012-01-23

A gem of a talk.

Fine Goods Market

2012-01-11

An exceptional little store, by designer Rogie King, featuring T-Shirts and other Web/UI goodies.

Fine indeed.

Flex Slider

2012-01-03

A well-documented jQuery slider to add to your “responsive” tool kit.

Happy

2011-12-31

Here’s a few things, in no particular order, that made 2011 special to me.

I saw my son play t-ball and soccer for the first time.
Took the family to DisneyLand.
Collaborated on some cool projects at UC Merced.
Read these books.
Purchased some new music
My youngest is out of diapers (Woo!).
The 49ers made the playoffs.
And best of all, I enjoyed this wild ride with my beautiful wife.

Happy New Year.