David Brainer-Banker

David Brainer-Banker is a Microsoft-certified developer, an Apple fanatic and a standards-compliance nerd writing code in Indianapolis, IN.

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• Coworking in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI

  January 20, 2012

  

  Getting work done during the Super Bowl

  The week leading up to Super Bowl XLVI is going to be a thrilling time to be in Indianapolis. Every hotel, restaurant and bar downtown will be packed and the entertainment opportunities will be nearly endless. So, what if you are traveling here (or live here and just want to be near the ...

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• HTTP Status Cats

  December 22, 2011

  HTTP is the protocol which serves as the foundation for the web as we know it. From Facebook, to Google, to the page you are browsing right now, almost every task you perform on the web happens thanks to HTTP. And for every response returned to you from a web server via HTTP, the header contains a short numeric status ...

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• iOS Tip: Fixing blurry text anti-aliasing in your iPad/iPhone app

  November 18, 2011

  Why does text in my UILabel look so blurry?

  

  Of course there are a variety of reasons why you might end up with blurry text in a UILabel or elsewhere in your iOS app, but if you are computing the position of the text element (or its parent, or parent's parent, etc.) one of the most common reasons is that you have ...

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• Riley Child Life Tour

  November 16, 2011

  Child Life

  Over the past year I have had the pleasure of working with the passionate and knowledgeable Child Life team at Riley Hospital for Children. Child life specialists work hard to ensure that children and families receive the emotional and educational support they need during hospitalization. This includes preparing children for the unfamiliar and often stressful or frightening ...

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• How-To: Create indexed side-scrolling columns using CSS3 and jQuery

  September 28, 2011

  Lists, lists and more lists

  Lists are great. When archaeologists unearthed 5000-year-old examples of the earliest known written language in Sumer, they found lists. Short lists are especially useful because they

  • break information or tasks down into easy-to-digest units,
  • allow the reader to efficiently skim the content, and
  • help keep things organized and consistent.

  Unfortunately, long lists can become incredibly ...

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• Adapt.js alternate margins for mobile.css

  July 19, 2011

  

   

  Adapt.js is a fantastic responsive implementation of the 960 grid system. A responsive design is one that recognizes that the web is a diverse place and dynamically adjusts its form and/or function to meet the demands of the screen size (and device capabilities) where it is being used. The initial treatise on responsive web design proposed using media queries ...

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• Working in Indianapolis and loving it: Food trucks

  July 14, 2011

  

   

  Indianapolis is a fantastic place to work. Sure we are no Chicago or NYC, but we have a vibrant downtown with our fair share of urban amenities. One relatively recent addition to the city is a growing fleet of independent food trucks. Far from just cheap fast food, many of these trucks offer creations innovative enough to make a ...

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• Five things no one should have to tell you to include on your website

  July 01, 2011

  Usability 101: You are one of the smartest people who will ever use your website, application or product. You already know more about your business and your vision than most people will ever know, and you also understand your interface perfectly because you have used it over and over (and perhaps you even designed it). Your audience, on the other ...

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• Making The Best Monkey (or, thoughts on the role of an expert)

  June 03, 2011

  There is a cute, funny and ultimately instructive little story over at graphicPUSH about the need to listen to your client "even when the client wants a logo with a monkey, and every fiber of your soul rejects the concept." You should really go read the post (it's short) but here is a quick summary of the action: A customer wanted a ...

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• DNN Tips: SEO Do's and Don'ts for DotNetNuke

  June 01, 2011

  DotNetNuke is easily one of the most popular ASP .Net content management (CMS) systems out there. In this post I am going to cover some of the simplest, fastest things you can do to your DotNetNuke site in order to improve SEO. If your first question was “What is SEO?” then this post is for you. If you are familiar ...

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