DM Blog 2013

January 14, 2013 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:08:29 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

I've changed my blog's design several times over the years but I hadn't noticed that it's always been in December/January every year. This time, I decided to rewrite everything from the ground up – here are a couple features that I added...

Show or Hide a Sidebar on iPad Based on Orientation

March 15, 2012 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:48 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

If you look at this site on an iPad, the sidebar is shown or hidden based on the device's orientation. There's two parts to making this work...

Michelle on DM Blog

March 9, 2012 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:03:39 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

After spending a couple hours getting a new installation of WordPress set up for Michelle, I decided to just create a new user for her on here instead of creating a whole new blog...

Animating Rotation With jQuery

February 21, 2012 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:15:49 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

All I wanted to do was start with an image centered on the page and then move it to its final position while shrinking it and rotating it. The only problem was the rotation part...

Michelle's Black Forest Cake

October 5, 2011 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:39:27 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

Here are some photos of Michelle's latest cake, a black forest cake...

WordPress Tag Cloud with Post Counts

September 30, 2011 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:42:38 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

One of the things that has annoyed me about WordPress for a long time is the inability to display a post count next to each tag in a tag cloud. Here's the code I came up with to accomplish this.

HTML5 History API

August 4, 2011 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:04:39 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

When re-designing my music site, I wanted to make sure that visitors could bookmark and share the original URL of the page without any appended #hashes. This was perfect for HTML5's History API.

Blue is Better Than Green

May 1, 2011 Sun, 01 May 2011 20:34:32 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

I recently updated the design of my blog and made some minor changes here and there. The most noticeable difference is that I changed the background color from green to blue.

The 3 Dogs Trailer

January 2, 2011 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:44:48 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

This is my first blog post since the new HTML5 changes went live on my blog. Here's a video trailer that Michelle and I created in iMovie '11 back in November...

Someone Stole My Mayorship

November 17, 2010 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:37:02 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar

Here's a hilarious video I found (in Spanish with English subtitles) of a lady who's super upset that she lost her mayorship on FourSquare...