I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. One of those most common complains with CSS frameworks (like BlueTrip…ahem) is that they include a lot of code that you won’t ever use (you’re probably never going to have a project where you use EVERY single column width or EVERY single possible typographical markup.

Let there be Dust-Me Selectors. It’s is a Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors and notifies you so you can remove them from your stylesheets. Awesome.

I’m trying to compile a showcase of sites built on BlueTrip to put on the website.

Let me know if you have! You can comment here, email me from the contact page, or post it on the BlueTrip forum.

Chrome is already beating Opera in browser market share. While Chrome isn’t bad and I like it alot, I think that’s pretty crazy.

Firefox, on one hand, is a whole different ballgame. It’s huge, has a hugely popular plugin architecture, open source, etc. It’s the big papa of the standards-compliant crew, in direct opposition with IE.

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I’ve always been a proponent of reset stylesheets. Jonathan Snook made an almost convincing argument against them a few months ago, which was backed up by Jens Meiert quite well.

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For those who aren’t familiar with Java for the web, there’s a (quite popular) flavor known as JSP which transforms Java into a web-based language. By inserting bits of Java code into HTML pages (much like how inline PHP works), the possibilities become endless. And as a result of Java’s strong object oriented tendencies, it becomes easy to make your own MVC architecture by having a “models” package which contains all the classes with DB interaction, and a “controllers” package which contains all of the files which do processing to display on the page. Since Java is such a powerful language, this seems like a winner. And it may be.

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BlueTrip.org has been doing pretty well for itself, even in it’s incomplete state. However, one of the things that it is completely lacking in is some method of communication and collaberation. The uber simple but reporter really isn’t built for that. I’ve always hung tight to the ExpressionEngine forum module so I don’t have much experience with standalone scripts. So it’s time to find a good forum.

My only requirements: PHP and MySQL, really simple, outputs valid code, and easy to theme. So far, the only options I’ve found are punBB, flexBB, and SMF, though I’m sure there are others. However, I happen to know that anybody who reads this blog must be brilliant, so anybody care to drop some knowledge?

While a large part of our likes or dislikes come down to personal taste, there are still quite a few things that I think most of us want in a Content Management System. Here’s my list, and I’ll carefully explain why nothing satisfies it, and nothing ever will.

Free and Open Source (GPL, anyone?)

Heckle if you wish, but this is a biggie for me. I need to be able to download and play with it for free! I need to be able to use it on my auntie Barb’s beauty parlor site that she’s not paying me a dime for. I need to be able to screw with the code and reuse the code and branch off from the code without getting sued.

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