Diego's blog

If you're reading this, you're probably looking for a simple way to improve user experience (UX) on your website or project by adding helpful hints to input fields and textareas. I was too! So, I put together this little plugin that takes the title attribute from an input and sticks it into the field itself. It renders the hint text untouchable but intact as a user focuses on the field.

After learning of _why the lucky stiff's vaporization into the cyber-ether - which was quite the Poignant move - I had to pay my homage to this great eccentric of web development. I had only briefly had the pleasure of consuming his works of literary madness before his untimely disappearance. I, as a fledgling developer who hand codes html for his blog posts, have a great admiration for people who contribute to our craft as much as he did, in the way that he did.

So, why _why? According to him it's just a middle name, no first name, no last name, just a long middle name.

I'm currently reading his book "_why's Poignant Guide to Ruby" and I'm loving it so far. Once I'm done I'll be updating this post with a review on it. For now, here's my copy of his PDF, which has become somewhat of a collector's item, now that he took down all of his sites.

Oh, _why, And art thou gone so soon? And is thy loving gentle spirit fled? -John Harris

For all of you budding web developers that have been struggling with Regular Expressions, here are some fantastic tools I found: Rubular, and the aptly named Online Regular Expression Tester for trying out regex in a Javascript context.

I had to share this awesome video I found on the Vimeo website. They're a great service to use for hosting and sharing videos. What really caught my eye was the quality of their HD videos. I'd say it out does even Youtube.

The video itself is nothing short of awesome. Any Time Warp fan would love these clips. Be sure to watch the last scene - a gravity-defying blob of jello.