Are you one of those guys who just loves the look of Rounded Corners, but doesn't like the footwork required? It's your lucky day, sort of.

Rounder corners are developed using, rounded corner images of course, CSS style to set those images as backgrounds, and the content of the box surrounded by a number of divs. You need one div for the content of the box. Then you need two divs above that, for the top corners and two below it, for the bottom corners. Should be simple enough right?

Well if it's not, here are a couple of Rounded Corner generators that you can use to slap together the code really fast. The even generate the images for you if you don't have your own.

• Corner Shop
• CSS Rounded Box Generator

[tags]css, rounded corners[/tags]

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Introduction
Back when I was doing my internship we had a major problem we were trying to solve. The project involved creating a web based terminal emulator using AJAX. Well, it was a little bit more specific than that. It was basically duplicating a specific application in the browser window.

Problem
Sounds all well and good except that this application made heavy use of F Keys, e.g. (F10, F5, F1, etc). Needless to say this would not really be viable in a browser since F1 would call up help, F5 would refresh and F10 would send the cursor to the menu. We had already written a nice enough key handler that worked rather well, with the exception of these F Keys.

JavaScript Solution
After a lot of hacking around I found a way to stop the browser from calling up and propagating those events. My code was, for lack of a better word, nasty; but it did work. It involved a lot of IE/Mozilla workarounds. I recently came across some cleaner code, so here you go:

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I know that a lot of you have heard about Picasa. It is a brilliant image manager from Google. It manages all the images on your hard drive, imports everything from your digital camera and all that other cool stuff. They've recently added an option called Web Albums. Here you can upload pictures and create a, um, well Web Album. Now from the program you can upload the images.

I'm sorry to Google, but I just thought this was so hilarious. It's just a lil' problem with Grammar. "This web album is contains 121 items". My girlfriend always finds these so amusing. She did have a jolly laugh on this one when I showed it to her.

Update:Â Of course this has been corrected by now folks.

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The day has finally come. Well, it's tomorrow, but you know what I mean. I am done, done, done, done, done! Words cannot express the joy and elation I feel right now. Throughout the semester I knew this day was coming. I mean, how could I not graduate. But there were just things that made it rather difficult to be happy about. Every time I mention graduation to someone we have the same conversation:

• Person: So you're graduating in December?
• Me: Yep.
• Person: So you must be really excited, huh?
• Me: I guess so.
• Person: So what are you going to do afterwards?
• Me (Thinking): How the hell should I know? Do you have a rich uncle that owns a company and is willing to give me a job? Because I sure haven't been successful on the millions of interviews I've gone to. Shoot, I guess I'm going to end up working in the mall selling women's shoes or something.
• Me (Actual response): I'm not sure. I guess try to find a job.

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Yes again, I'm late. I'm sorry folks, but here we go.

Once again we bring together JavaScript and CSS to produce amazing results. Notice the header at the top of this website (assuming that I haven't impulsively changed my theme again)? Nice basic reflection, right? It's commonly known as the Wet Floor effect. I can just hear the Photoshop folks now, "what's so impressive about that?". Well seeing that I lack a lot in the Photoshop field it took me about 30 minutes to get this to look even reasonably good. But I did not have to go through all that trouble.

Reflections.js provides a simple method for web developers to do this. I haven't had too much experience with this other than just basic demos but I am again amazed at the power of JavaScript and CSS. You include the JavaScript and for each image you want to add a reflection to you add:

. That's it. It almost seems too simple doesn't it?

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Yes, I know I'm a bit late with this, but I still had to give you the run down.
Originally created by Lokesh Dhakar

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

Have you ever gone to a website and seen this nice lil' thing they do when you click on a thumbnail and it pops up a larger image in the same browser window? That's LightBox. I've seen it before and I haven't given it a lot of thought. I just naturally assumed that it would take too much time to implement, so I left it alone. Oh was I wrong.

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OK, So I've just gotten done with my Algebraic Structures (Part 1) final exam. Yes, Part 1. It was supposedly designed to help us in that the in-class portion does not contain any proofs. The result is instead of having one normal sized test taking up just 2 hours, we have one in-class portion that was really difficult and took one and a half hours; and one take-home portion that is full of proofs that is going to take about eight hours. Yaaaaayyy. That's what I always wanted.

Tomorrow I have Contemporary Programming Languages and I need to hand up my Numerical Analysis take home exam. That should be simple enough. On Wednesday I have to hand up Part 2 of Algebraic Structures and then that's it. Did you hear me? That's it. Well, that is after I graduate on Saturday. And I'll be done with school for a while; a very long while. After this I have about one month before work starts. Yes, that's a whole other story on it's own, I got a JOB. I got to move and all that stuff. But hey, I'm just so psyched about finishing with school that I can barely contain myself. Again, this is a 10 minute break from my studies and I got to get back to it. I don't want my GPA to take any other unnecessary dips before I'm all done. Rumor has it I'll be graduating with honors. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

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OK, so things have been a little bit hectic so I haven't gotten around to posting for a while. Here is a basic run down of what has been going on so far (much more detail to come later):

• Finals start today. Yes, this struggling college student is about to go into finals week and obviously I'm going a bit crazy.
• We've had end of semester project dues. One project, Software Engineering, was proving to be a major pain. Not the project itself, but the process by which it was to be delivered. Let's just say, this whole "group work" thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.
• I'll also be graduating. Yep, it's finally over. In one week I'll be putting on that gown and walking through those doors. Wait a minute, where's my gown. Whoops, mental note: "Need to check on gown at the bookstore". We've been having graduation practice and all this good stuff.

So basically, I'm about ready to pull my hair out from the roots. But I'm trying my best to hold on to what little sanity I have left. Things should be back in full swing on Thursday.

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