Adding custom CSS properties in gtkmm is actually pretty simple once you know how. It took me quite a bit of searching along with some trial and error before I came up with a pretty simple pattern for doing so. What I was looking for was a way to use custom Read more…
Introduction I consider myself an avid speed cuber. Not world class, but fast enough and not too obsessed with it. That being said all the sites I’ve seen in the past with references to algorithms all seem to use really clunky client side Java or Flash plugins to handle the Read more…
We’ve all run into situations where we need to truncate text due to length constraints. Most of the time this simply requires a truncation function which determines the maximum length of text and if the string exceeds that length, truncates it and adds an ellipsis (“…”). But what about when Read more…
Foreword Absolutely positioned elements can be quite useful, but what if you have something centered or off to one side and you need to just nudge an absolutely positioned element. The following will show you a handy technique for moving absolute elements relative to the elements around it using nothing Read more…
There are a lot of hacks out there dealing with getting specific CSS files to load on a per browser basis. I wanted to try a different approach. I wanted a way to specify the default or standard CSS that all pages will use as well as a way to Read more…