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I managed to stumble across two great examples of Form Field styling using CSS and JavaScript.

Ask the CSS Guy has a nice breakdown of how to recreate the Vox Registration form and it’s CSS Span hints. It’s pretty cool, but I think I’ll get rid of the <dd> and <dt> tags in the markup.

Also, Uni-Form is worth checking out as well. Using CSS, the form can easily be styled in one of two common ways. Great way to display a valid XHTML form in a variety of ways without changing your code.

Finally, Ill mention a Prototype Form validation set that I’ve been using for a while on work projects. I need to switch it over to jQuery,
but I’ve been lazy about it. I’ve created quite a few custom validators for it and the new release
makes it even easier to combine and change options on the form fields. I’ve not found something in jQuery that is as robust, yet.

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I had been struggling with creating an appointment reminder in MS Outlook to be attached to an email. It was for a event registration Intranet application I had been working on. Finally, after getting most of it working, the most annoying part. . .when the VCS calendar file was sent, the time on the appointment was off by 5-6 hours, depending on the event.

Finally, after searching for what seemed like forever, I found the answer.

Outlook calculates the appointment based on GMT and Tennessee is Eastern Time, so that means I need to add +6 to the time zone when making the appointment.

Just one of those weird problems you bang your head on for hours and you finally stumble across a solution that doesn’t even make sense.

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Just came across Matt Kruse’s Javascript Table Sorting library, and it’s quite impressive. This will hopefully solve or help a few problems we’ve been having here at work.

The nice thing about this library compared to the ones that do similar functions using jQuery or Prototype, is this one does multiple functions (including paging tabular data). So, check out the examples and be impressed. Then download and try it yourself.