Stephen Yeargin

For the first time in more than a year, I spent the weekend knee-deep in web development. The project is a site for an alumni organization for which Samantha serves as a board member. It is somewhat therapeutic to tackle the entire project, from creating PSD mock-ups, breaking it down into HTML/CSS and incorporating it [...]

The unofficial end of summer is only a week or so away, with Metro Nashville-Davidson county public schools going back in session on August 14. I can remember always being excited at the prospect of a new year. New stuff, new classes, new faces. I really enjoyed the fall semester in college, with a packed [...]

I am trying to find a use for the extra hosting slot on the Web server Samantha and I lease. I could conceivably put any kind of site that I wished into it, but nothing in particular is coming to mind. I could try for something like “Wordsplosion!, as our part of the country is [...]

For the last week or two I have been watching podcasts from Stanford University on iPhone Application Programming (CS 193P). The videos are recordings of an actual class at the university, where the instructors are Apple employees who have developed for the platform. I have now watched six hours worth, so I think I am [...]

Whenever a Web service that I use changes formats, I seldom complain. Facebook has done it twice in the last few years, first introducing the stalker-friendly News Feed and more recently with its design overhaul. As long as I can be convinced that the changes are intended to make the site more user-friendly and aesthetically [...]

I am starting to realize that jQuery and ThickBox are making me look like a lot better of a Web developer at work than I really am. Then again, who says you have to write every last line of code in order to get the job done?

Fall has finally arrived. A lot of southerners lovingly call this “football weather”, because it is just cold enough to require long sleeves but not the kind of icy feel of December. The afternoons tend to climb in the low to mid-80s, so versatile wardrobe selections have to be added to the daily routine. My [...]

I did not have much luck writing tonight. I stared at a blank Smultron document for about eight minutes before relenting. I do recommend the application if use a Mac. It is great for coding.

This is not a new article by any stretch (WordPress has been on Subversion for quite some time), but it might help a couple of people I know that use WordPress but have a lousy time keeping it up to date. I tried to use my own experience with moving to Subversion as the basis [...]

Just a quick note to anyone who has visited this site since May 26 using Microsoft Internet Explorer: Why did you leave me hanging? Of course I am kidding, but those 40 percent or so of visitors were likely confused by the utter mess this site had become since my last theme update. The CSS [...]