Rodan Sotto's Tech Blog

It’s a no brainer really.  So I can easily switch between the programming languages that are widely used now in web (i.e. JavaScript) and mobile applications (i.e. Java and Objective-C) and in the future (i.e. TypeScript and Dart).  Note that this is coming from someone who develops in the Microsoft stack. I don’t know about you, but whenever I... Read More

Well, I’ll tell you.  You can define your own strings with Enums using reflection.  You can also use the type-safe-enum pattern if reflection seems slow to you.  And do you know you can use Enums to represent bit flags? Associating Enums with strings in C# shows you how to define your own strings with Enums using reflection.  For type-safe-enum... Read More

With CSS3 transitions you can animate text as well as other elements in your web page without any JavaScript.  See my demo at https://rodansotto.github.io/projects/css/TransitionIAmTitanium.html (just move mouse to center box to animate text and outside box to return to original state).  In there I am also using a custom web font using CSS3 rule... Read More

Using CSS media queries is one part of making your web site responsive but you are limited to specific viewports.  Having a fluid layout on top of that will greatly improve the responsiveness and makes it more future proof.  In CSS, you can implement a fluid layout by sizing your elements’ horizontal dimensions in proportion using percentage %... Read More

If not or you are struggling to understand it, then no worries.  I too didn’t understand it fully well when I coded this, but it worked wonderfully.  I am going to break down this code into digestible parts because there is just too much.  I would suggest going through the provided links as well to fully understand each part before going to th... Read More