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I'm Rob Schmitt, freelance developer and owner of
Blue Piccadilly.

I share thoughts on the web, Drupal, JavaScript, and other things that interest me.

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January 2012

Prevent flickering of CSS transitions and transforms in Webkit

Omnibar for Safari

December 2011

Good selection of jQuery performance tweaks

Fascinating analysis of how big PHP arrays really are

Use jQuery to get the HTML of a container, including the container itself

Handling image uploads with custom validation using the Drupal 6 Forms API

Creating a MySQL database and user on the command line, and a bash script to automate the process

jQuery snippet to force external links into a new window

How the iPad 2 became Harry McCracken's favourite computer

Twelve legal considerations for software developers

Eating your own dogfood, or the importance of platform

Firebug on your iPhone and iPad

jQuery Fundamentals - An excellent and free book for learning jQuery

Add tertiary links to your Drupal 6 template

URL redirection examples with mod_rewrite

November 2011

Default text field value that disappears on focus

A neat trick to find the longitude and latitude of a Google Maps location

Exclude whole content types from your Drupal search results

Restrict access to Drupal nodes, node types and menu items

Give your Drupal blocks a more descriptive HTML ID attribute

Specify an alternative jQuery library for a particular page on your Drupal site

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