Welcome to the personal blog of Giuliani Vito Ivan. Here you'll find my random thoughts about web development, design and mostly everything that is computer releated.

Alternate text colors with CSS

August 7th, 2008

When I was redesigning this site, I was experimenting many different options for the header. Among the whole set of solutions I tried, I was very happy with the one I’m going to illustrate even though I chosen another one (that is the one you can see now) because it integrates better with the the whole layout.

What I wanted to achieve was basically this:

I thought at various techniques on how to realize that: fixed image, text with alternated background, experiments with PNG transparency, ecc…. All of these things have their pros and cons, but in the end I came up with a simple solution that required just few lines of CSS code and had few cons (in respect to the others).

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Then, version 2.0 landed

July 27th, 2008

And finally here it is: I launched right now this site’s redesign. I haven’t put a lot of work on it but I’m pleased with the final results. I like minimalism and monochrome designs, and even though this isn’t the most minimalist design ever, I think it’s a good compromise. Taking advantage from opportunity, I added some new features to the site (and removed some old ones).

The biggest change is the right column: now integrates my pownce feed. I’m still trying to understand why it doesn’t show nothing but simple posts, but I’ll fix it someday (that’s not my fault though, I’m using a wordpress plugin). And all the stuff that previously were on the right, now are on the very bottom of the page.

Just a couple of rants: I wish this was powered from django and I hate wordpress.

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Practical Django Projects

July 5th, 2008

Due to my devotion to the Django web framework, I finally got my copy of Practical Django Projects, by James Bennet. Not really expecting to have that soon, but a beautiful suprise anyway (to say the truth, I didn’t bought this: this has been sent to me as replacement prize for djangodash because I was not elegible to get the G33K beers since I live outside US. Thanks to the generosity of Daniel Lindsley).

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Microblogging

  • I've been extremely productive today: I wrote +500 lines of code and haven't broke anything (apparently). Aug 19, 6:02pm #
  • I wonder why the Calendar class in Java has day and years fields 1-based, while month is 0-based. I'm having headaches. Aug 18, 3:59pm #
  • I installed PostgreSQL onto a virtual machine: nice, but way too different from MySQL (and that's not a bad thing, but I'm too used to MySQL and can't feel at home with it). Aug 17, 5:03pm #
  • Bored. Aug 16, 6:41pm #
  • Dear Google Reader, sometimes looks like if you're read-only. Aug 16, 1:41pm #
  • Wonderful, I think I have fever. And it's August 15th. Aug 15, 10:24pm #
  • I hate javax.swing.*; Aug 15, 7:19pm #
  • I think that cuil does an ORDER BY DESC, since the results I want are always on the latest pages. Aug 14, 7:15pm #
  • Remember: never detach the power supply when your laptop is without battery. Aug 14, 3:41pm #
  • I'm having stomachache: could be due to the fact that I've been coding Java from this morning? Aug 14, 1:41pm #

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