Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
The April 2005 issue of Wired Magazine has interesting subject matter on the “infoporn” page. “The Outsourcing Myth” provides information on the state of outsourcing. As people who go by facts probably already know, U.S. companies import more jobs than they export — $18 billion worth in 2003 ($43.5B outsourced; $61.4B insourced). Most of the jobs insourced in the U.S. are corporate legal and...
The DotNetNuke Control Panel is generally positioned at the top of a page (although it can be positioned anywhere). It is displayed if a user has administrative rights to a page. After the initial layout of a page, the Control Panel is not often needed, but it continues to take up valuable screen real-estate. I saw a recent discussion on this issue in the ASP.net forums, and decided that it presents an...
nokiko asks:
I am working on some new containers and dnn enhancements. I want to know in my container which moduleid is loaded so lets say i have an ascx container and in there i have the...
I have been a user of Groove products since its early beta. Mostly because of my Lotus Notes roots and my firm belief that Ray Ozzie is one of the few true visionaries in the software industry. It was a pleasant surprise when an MSN SMS a few minutes ago notified me that Microsoft is going to acquire Groove Networks (story).
This is fantastic news. Groove has always been strong on collaboration, and now I...
How do you create a page that allows a user to select the font size?
Nik’s answer:
You can do this using CSS or Javascript or a combination of the two. Here is some sample HTML code with embedded CSS that demonstrates how it is done:
This code demonstrates how to make a web page with user selectable font sizes. The trick is to use CSS with relative point sizes.
You can set the... 
