blog update: new members added

Hey everyone, you may notice within the next few weeks that there are posts from people other than nate murray. mat and ashley have joined the team! we hope that between the three of us we can keep something updated that everyone will enjoy.

I'm working on a new template and site overhaul that is going to be really awesome. It will feature better categories, too. I'm going to pull out the tech-stuff and put it in its own category (tech.natemurray.com maybe?). It will also feature a more organized system of pictures and other goodies.

So stick around, life has been pretty crazy lately with the move and all.

We just got our Christmas tree!

hear my train a'comin

I'm sitting on the train on my way to Union Station. I decided it would be ridiculous to try and fight the traffic on the way home. The day before Thanksgiving the freeway is always packed. We're almost done with our condo. We just have to finish the floor in a few places put on the moulding. Our neighbors are getting irritated at us for banging on the floors all the time and we're getting tired; so we're eager to be done. Last night we went to Pottery Barn to look at curtains, but we ended up getting a rug instead. When we arrived at the register to pay the girl told us that they had just lowered the price by about $100 and just hadn't changed the sign.

Tomorrow is Ashley's birthday. It fell on Thanksgiving this year, so we won't be going out to celebrate until next week.

cssampler: inspect your style sheets

Here is a php script that will show you examples of every style of a given stylesheet. You can demo it here. You can use any url of a stylesheet as seen in this example here. You can also use any text you want to. Download here.

Basically it works by flattening your stylesheet into classes and creates an inline style sheet. This lets you demo contextual styles as well. It compresses contextual styles to be separated by '_' instead of a space.

Limitations: Currently it does not use the "import" statement or any other css statement besides .class, #id, or regular html tags (e.g. h1, h2 etc). It will only read the actual files. Also because each contextual style is compressed into a flat style you lose a bit of the cascading. That is a limitation that will probably be fixed in later releases.

If you use this on your project drop me a line. I'd be interested to know if anyone finds it useful.

some pictures for your enjoyment

Pictures from SoCal

The Cycle of Moving

Pumpkin Carving