Michael P. Stone

Transparent PNG images in IE 7 and IE 8 not rendering transparent with jquery cycle

Posted by Michael Stone | July 03, 2010 | Comments ( 3 )

I ran into a problem where I wasn't able to get my PNG images to properly render in Internet Explorer 7 or 8. I was using the jquery cycle plugin, jquery.malsup.com/cycle/, and I was trying to display the images on an already transparent ...Read more

Visual Editor java.lang.NullPointerException Fix

Posted by Michael Stone | May 05, 2010 | Comments ( 8 )

While continuing development of a Java application, I tried opening my GUI classes and I couldn't get either of them to open up correcty with the Visual Editor. After a few times of restarting Eclipse, nothing was working so I did some exploring on the web and found some forums. A lot of which were not helpful, but I did manage to find the fix within one. Now, I do not know what caused my error, there seems to be nothing wrong with my code and it's never behaved like this before, but for some odd reason today, the product of attempting to do some Java development was an error, Visual Editor java.lang.NullPointerException ...Read more

MSCEI Jquery Part 2 Workshop

Posted by Michael Stone | March 28, 2010 | Comments ( 0 )

Prior to our spring break, MSCEI held another workshop on Jquery. The topics involved plugins, Jquery UI, and loading external pages. The purpose of the workshop was to show others how to turn a lackluster website into a more interactive and professional experience ...Read more

MSCEI JS and Jquery Workshop

Posted by Michael Stone | February 18, 2010 | Comments ( 3 )

MSCEI presented another successful workshop tonight. This time discussing the basics of JavaScript and entering the world of Jquery. The presenters were myself and Jason Kaczmarksy, http://www.dev-port.com/. Seemed like we got a lot of positive reactions ...Read more

MSCEI Advanced CSS Workshop

Posted by Michael Stone | February 04, 2010 | Comments ( 4 )

MSCEI Advanced CSS workshop and cross-browser compatibility. Thank you all for coming, we hope to see you in two weeks for the JavaScript workshop. ...Read more

SEO Quick Tips

Posted by Michael Stone | January 15, 2010 | Comments ( 0 )

Over the past few months I've been obsessed about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I've found articles online, I've read a few books, and mostly, I've done some personal research. I'd like to provide you with a small, but hopefully valuable list of information which should definitely increase your rank in time. 1. Content, content and content! I see so many sites go live with barely any content and expect to be seen. Search engine bots like for valid and valuable content on pages, the more valuable your content and abundant, the better chance of being seen. ...Read more

Animate Scroll and Change Position with Jquery

Posted by Michael Stone | January 15, 2010 | Comments ( 1 )

I like the idea of a persistent top menu bar, but the way I read most material online is from top to bottom and then left to right. Taking that into consideration, I decided I would need that top, stationary menu bar to move ...Read more

Coldfusion OOP

Posted by Michael Stone | January 08, 2010 | Comments ( 0 )

So, while browsing for future potential Coldfusion developer positions, I've noticed some of the better positions have a requirement of "understanding and implementation of object oriented programming". Well.. I've only used OOP ...Read more

Design version 2.0 launched!

Posted by Michael Stone | January 04, 2010 | Comments ( 0 )

Finally I found time to get this new design at least somewhat ready to be launced. It's finished as you can see from exploring the site, but it's a work in progress! I especially like this new design because of the more simple approach I took. ...Read more

Site Re-Design

Posted by Michael Stone | December 10, 2009 | Comments ( 1 )

So the semester is over.. Wow.. What a semester it has been. I did everything from creating a custom PHP CMS from scratch to developing Twitter applicatons and interfaces using the Twitter API. Began development and design of a marketing ...Read more

Past, Present, and Future: Movies and Music

Posted by Michael Stone | September 15, 2009 | Comments ( 2 )

Anyone that is a movie/music buff, has go to be asking the same question I'm about to ask.. The other day I got into a conversation about past movies and music and their remakes and covers. Batman, Superman, The Hulk, Kink Kong, just some examples of movies that have been recently recreated. With music it's the same thing. You've got Zombies being covered by Miser, Numerous amounts of Clapton songs, Free Fallin' recently covered by John Mayer. You're probably asking yourself, why is he providing all of this useless information.. Take in consideration all of the covers and remakes and then how long music and movies have been around. Are you ready? ...Read more

Useful Jquery tools

Posted by Michael Stone | September 15, 2009 | Comments ( 0 )

I'm a fan of JQuery Cycle, Validation, and am attempting to use JQuery Calculation.
You can find 60+ useful JQuery tools here. ...Read more