The code and thoughts of Jesse Schoberg Co-Founder of DropInBlog

Recently I had the privilege of being interviewed by Chris Reynolds over at The Business Method Podcast.  It was a lot of fun to reminisce on some adventures of the past and talk about current and future projects. Interview Summary On today’s show, we welcome world traveling digital nomad and serial entrepreneur Jesse Schoberg to […]

April 6, 2017 - Thoughts

This code is an alternative to the traditional YouTube <iframe> embed. It will reduce the downloads of each embeded video by about 90% and have them resize responsively to all screen widths. It is made with jQuery, HTML, and CSS.

August 13, 2015 - Code

So far I’ve found all the proposed solutions for dealing with wide tables on mobile to be a bit cumbersome and just not that great. Then I had the idea of wrapping the table in a div and just using overflow to make it scroll sideways without breaking the layout.

November 22, 2013 - Code

So as the world gets more and more mobile people are getting used to seeing the toggle switches seen on iPhone/iOS and Android user interfaces. They are very intuitive and downright fun, and much easier to use than checkboxes. I’m working on a project that has a user interface that calls for this so I […]

September 27, 2013 - Code

You can do a lot with css3 transitions and I’m not going to get into that here. But I am going to show you a simple line of css you can start using now to add a nice smooth animation to your :hover effects.

May 1, 2012 - Code

Here’s another quick hit from my php snippets. You can see a review of a lot of ways to do this on David Walsh’s post on the subject. However, I wanted to write it as short as possible to be used within pages. I use this a lot to add css classes into tags.

April 30, 2012 - Code

I’m always using little php snippets in tons of projects. Here’s one I needed today that is very useful.  If you want a specific item to show only between a group of dates you can use this. No big function, just slap in your dates and go!

January 20, 2012 - Code

Recently I’ve been seeing these “feedback” tabs fixed to the left or right side of websites that open up customer feedback forms by companies like UserVoice. While browsing websites that use this product, these buttons have really gotten my attention. So I thought.. why not make one to promote a website’s Facebook Fan Page, so […]

March 20, 2010 - Code

All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. […]

July 3, 2009 - Code

I’ve never been a big fan of building web forms, and I don’t know many people who are. However, the fact of the matter is that almost every website has a few forms, and these forms play a key roll in the user experience.  Larger websites have huge, complex forms, that we as web developers […]

October 29, 2008 - Code