Developer Briefs

The Developer Briefs at Middleware Infrastructure are a bit different than our other projects. Rather than providing official documentation or support material for specific applications, these briefs are a repository of tips, techniques, and tools that may of interest to any UCLA developer.

These briefs are provided as is and are for general technical interest only. They do not express, explicitly or implied, any official position held by AIS or the university. Any external links are provided for your benefit, we're not responsible for changing content or links on other people's websites, etc.

Please send corrections, comments, and ideas for new briefs to Carl Uebelhart.

Excerpts from the Latest Developer Briefs

03.15.2007 / Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing

For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.

How to use a combination of em and percent units to gain consistent cross browser text rendering.

01.26.2007 / General HTML/CSS Resources

For Public; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.

I thought I’d quickly share a few sites that I’ve either found personally useful or, given where I am now, wish existed when I was picking the trade up.

01.23.2007 / A Primer on Designing for Internet Explorer 7

For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.

An explanation of some design changes and their impacts in IE7 as well as some resources about current rendering bugs.

01.05.2007 / Adobe Photoshop CS3 Trial Information

For Public; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Tech Overviews.

On December 15th 2006, Adobe released a public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS3. Aside from this being the first time their flagship application has received a public beta, it is significant because the Mac build is a Universal Binary.

12.14.2006 / Rounded Corners in Web Sites...

For Developers; Posted Under: Developer Briefs » Web Design.

This article attempts to reduce some of the headache of getting rounded corners to work across major web browsers.