Web design and development by Jonathan Dean

I started playing with html5 and wanted to share some good resources I’ve found for anyone trying to get up to speed on the specs, browser support and code samples.
For a very detailed overview of everything html5 is (and isn’t) head over to diveintohtml5.org. The section entitled “What does it all mean?” is a great [...]

I’ve been using Zennaware’s Cornerstone for Mac as my primary Subversion GUI. The interface is much better than anything I’ve found for the features it has. (It’s only real shortcoming is that it doesn’t have support for branching and merging, so I occasionally need to use SmartSVN when it comes time for working with branches.)
I [...]

There’s a “quirk” about Ruby that I often forget when going back to it after a long period of time using other languages. If you divide two integers in Ruby then it’s going to give you an integer as a result. Consider the following:

some_int = 3
another_int = 2
answer = some_int / another_int # answer [...]

I first went looking for a solution as to why connecting to FTP on my new CentOS 5.3 server was very slow. I found this post that had the answer: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/directory-listing-slow-ftp-server-centos/
The gist of it is to edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and add the following:
IPTABLES_MODULES=”ip_conntrack_ftp”
However, the big lesson here is that if you reload your iptables now you [...]

Apache already comes pre-installed on OS X but PHP is not enabled by default. To enable PHP we need to edit our Apache config file by opening the Terminal and typing sudo nano /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf and hitting enter (put in your admin password when it asks.) Type Control+W to bring up the search option and type [...]

I was pretty disappointed after my Verizon Fios install to learn that the Actiontec M1424WR modem/router combo only goes up to a G wifi signal. I’ve been using my Time Capsule with an N signal for a while and it’s great. I was even more disappointed to find that I wasn’t simply able to extend [...]

If you’re running an Apache server there’s no need to hard code your links to force https/http or write server-side code. A few simple rewrite rules will allow you to redirect your secure pages to https and your non-secure pages back to http.

A while back I posted this article about friendly URLs in PHP and Apache. Today I’d like to update that a little to not only show another method but also to enhance it a bit. When we’re done we’ll have search engine friendly URLs that look like the ones that Blogger uses.
Why? Because search engines [...]

I had some trouble today with washed out images when using Save for Web in Photoshop and thought I should share. In the past I’ve been able to solve this by unchecking the Convert to sRGB option but that didn’t cut it this time. In case you aren’t familiar, you can find that option by [...]

(Picture of our wedding)