Big pond. Small fish. Sharp teeth.

The Feisty Piranha Project is headed up by BrightMix developer interns Allyn, Robert, and designer Erin. Their goal is to create and launch a brand-spanking-new web 2.0 application. Whats the app? Subscribe to the blog, and follow their progress over the summer to find out...

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  • oh, by the way, you suck

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    Internet Explorer doesn’t have true small-caps in it’s understanding of css. If you try to write this css:
    {
    text-transform: lowercase;
    font-variant: small-caps;
    }
    the first letter of each world will be a full-size cap, even though you specifically stated all letters should be lowercase. How terribly terrible. So you’ll have to do this instead:
    {
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-size: 8px; /* specify a [...]

  • i’m tired

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    and I might take a nap.

  • Thursday

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    So, today is Thursday. Since I missed my Thursday and Friday posts last week, I’m doing them this week. It actually worked out pretty well like that, although after Friday I’ll have to think up a new scheme to find titles for my posts.
    Today has gone decently. I’m working on refining the search on a [...]

  • 7 nice search interfaces

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    It’s getting to that point in the project where I need to add a design element, thus far, unaccounted for. This is where it gets tricky. How do I keep the new element consistent with everything else? What if the thing I had not accounted for is conceptually and functionally different than everything else, but [...]

  • Track your Campfire Usage with Campfire Spider

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    For those of you that read every word I say, you might have noticed that I hinted at another project that Allyn and I were working on in our free time. Well, the time has come to unveil our mini project.
    It is a little known fact that Brightmix uses Campfire for office chat. [...]