http://www.paulfranzen.com The nonsensical ravings of a loudmouthed malcontent. Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the right way to rotate a dom object in FF, using jQuery, of course, it can easily be ported to work with IE, but that's up to you. var angle = 40*Math.PI/180; var cosx = Math.cos(angle); var sinx = Math.sin(angle); var negsinx = (Math.sin(angle)) * -1; var rotato = cosx.toString() + ', ' ... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=103 The business of America is business - President Calvin Coolidge If you've ever talked to me about the state of business in America.  There's is a good chance you got an earful about how stupid, inefficient and mismanaged (most of) it is. Well instead of just shooting off my mouth, I've decided ... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=85 Rating the top 25 Newspaper Websites Clue #1: If a blog post about good websites refers to users as readers. For example: People "read" the newspaper and "use" a website. You think I'm being pretentious, but when's the last time you said, "I'm gonna go read the internet." And don't give ... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=83 Radiohead |MTV Music Another great example of the EPS (elite-popular-specialized) model http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=81 A nice stylish, film camera, so you can take all the embarassing pictures you want while minimizing the chances they'll be leaked. Also, a super-discreet (expensive) developing service Snail mail based! http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=78 For those of you familiar with OAS (open ad stream) you know it can a be a bit of pain to work with / troubleshoot / hack.  SO for your benefit I'm posting a little code snippet. This combines JQuery with the OAS tracking tags and some basic flash to ... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=75 Seriously, this is a snippet that should be out there, jeez: function selectAllChecks(){ if( $(this).attr('checked') == true ){ $(':checkbox:not(this)').attr('checked', true); } else{ $(':checkbox:not(this)').attr('checked', false); } } $(document).ready(function(){ $('input#selectAll').bind("click",selectAllChecks); }); //end document.ready function Obviously, you want your select all checkbox to have an id of "selectAll" http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=70 New version of the Google Maps API My mouth is watering... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=68 Well I launched a "fully-functioning" version of stirchicago.com a little while ago. I've gotten pretty positive feedback on the site, but I need to build a more professional module to handle the aggregrated results from the topics.  I also need to clean everything up, build some nicer code to handle ... http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=66 The problem with setting goals for yoursef is that there are no consequences to not acheiving them.  I think you start every goal with, "If I don't do blank, I'm going to kill myself." I bet people would be alot more careful about goals. http://www.paulfranzen.com/?p=63