sunny days

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1 year ago
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Second week of October, 2011. Today, I didn’t feel like Garfield waking up. This week has surely started off on a positive note. I do trust my instincts on that one. Last night I hanged out with my boys- Mekanti, Llanzo and Fella on google plus. The beauty. As if it wasn’t enough, I ended up chatting with Ndugi on Skype till like 2am. I really had a great bro-some time! Not to sound misogynistic but I do believe that sometimes the female species are overrated. Guys, put that in your good idea folder! Now back on track…

…today started out special day because while I was taking my wonderful ceremonial 8-minute walk to work I met an old lady with her husband’s walking their dogs. They stopped me and talked to me. This made me feel so human. The couple introduced themselves and started telling me about how they notice me pass by their house every morning.
Yes. I walk to work. And believe me or not- it is the best 8 minutes in 24hrs. Always. These guys simply made it even better by making me smile. I smiled because their actions simply reminded me of home. It is disheartening to notice that many people here in the US do not actually know their neighbors. Am not used to that- and I refuse to conform.
 
I really had a lot of positive energy once I arrived at work. Preppy freak! I couldn’t contain it, I found myself making a great connection with a technology analyst who will be working with me on some project that I will be helping out in temporary; I also randomly had a drop-in meeting with my supervisor. He spared a good 40minutes out of his busy schedule lecturing me on how I can best plan my career at my company. Later on, my team lead asked me if I was willing to plug in and do some hardcore programming. I enthusiastically told him I was ready for the challenge- and sure, he had asked me this on the perfect day. I cherish my family at work. I cherish my family in my neighborhood. I love community.

 

Ps. As weird as it sounds but I really felt compelled to take a photo of that grass plant thingy as I walked back from work today.

DIV not centered in IE

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1 year ago
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Yes indeed. The web browser from Reymond, VA is very unforgiving. I came through this problem as I was redesigning my portfolio website. The page layout was perfectly fine if I rendered the page on Firefox and Chrome but it would not work on Internet explorer 9; the latest version.

When using IE9, the divs on my webpage could not be positioned to the center using the magical CSS expression – “margin: auto”. Of course, after pulling my hair out, I realized that IE9 couldn’t render the content correctly because I was missing the doctype tag in my HTML file. After doing some research, I found out that IE9 will render your document using outdated rules hence the wrong layout on your screen.  The doctype tag should be included at the very top of your file before declaring the HTML tag.

Check if your HTML has the following line:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

For an example of a complete implementation see code below;

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>My WEBSITE</title>

<style>
	#main{
		margin:auto;
		background-color:#CCFF66;
		height: 100px;
		width: 300px;
	}
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div id="main"> This is the floating div... </div>

</body>
</html>

As a side note, it is really important to constantly check your webpage design layout using Firefox, IE, Opera and Chrome at the same time. It really gets frustrating if you wait until the last minute to do so. Things can go really berserk!

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Still movin’ on…

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1 year ago
in ,

If you looked at the title of my page and understood the doodle ${fu[“mba”]}, then you are probably a JSP geek. Two years ago, I used to blog at fumbani.blogspot.com. Supercharged by with the everyday experiences that I had while interning at some genetics lab, I wrote about the world of bioinformatics and my life. My lifesong. But as my academic interests took shift so did my enthusiasm to maintain my my web log.

Well, today I live a completely different life. Only thing that has remained constant are the hands that hold my heart. My God. Otherwise, I am now fascinated by computers. In my junior year of college, I switched my Biochemistry/Molecular Biology major into a minor and craftily designed Computer Science as my major. This is, indisputably , one of the best decisions I have ever bore.

“There is nothing wrong with change, if its in the right direction”. Churchill Winston

Sitting in my lovely cubicle, I pondered about starting to blog again. There is just nothing healthier than sharing my germinating skills and jotting down thoughts and experiences. After successfully recovering from senioritis [the hurdles that senior year of undergraduate college showers], it is not surprising that I started to consider blogging again. Unfortunately, I could not convince myself to continue my old blog page. Besides, I now possess my own domain (chibaka.com), so I decided to go geeky and try out a new publishing platform. So, here’s to change!

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