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While reading the blog post about Enabling Javascript specific CSS and the comments, I started thinking about my own ways to implement this. And how to do it validly.

The Elgg Generate Users Plugin made me wonder why there was no group functionality… So…

I just ran into this a bunch - works fine in FireFox … of course.

So I’ve heard of the Flash of Unstyled Content before - but never really had this problem. I always use a link tag for my stylesheets.

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After working some with the open source Community building application Elgg, I found some settings to be irritating. I had to keep hacking my plugins to get these settings activated the way I wanted. Also, I really wanted to put useful settings in the same location.

Now, I won’t bore you with the actual details of how I came across this - let’s just skip to the explanation and example:

I just want to make a micro blog here. Just a tiny lil blog.

Internet Explorer provides an additional border to any button element in the page if you don’t explicitly assign a 0px border to it. I have a bunch of buttons on a design that I’d like to have a 1px #fff border on. Unfortunately, with the additional border that IE adds, it looks horrible.

There are a few quick ways to monitor MySQL performance. This isn’t much of an in-depth reference, just a quick reminder. Let’s look: