The Montoya Herald, a weblog about Blueprint, jQuery, design, music and life, publishing on the web since September 2005. Written by Christian Montoya: developer, designer and entrepreneur.

I'd like to spend more time on this redesign, but I have a million other things to work on. I was expecting to do this for a while, and I finally couldn't wait any longer. The old design was just getting on my nerves. So I have this new design. It's a cross between this photoshop [...]

I was using the jQuery tablesort plugin on a recent project and I found that it was treating comma-delimited numbers as plain strings. An example of a comma-delimited number is: 99,001. This was a deal-breaker for me, so I looked at the documentation and I came up with the following custom parser. You can add [...]

As you might have heard, I have taken over the Blueprint project along with Joshua Clayton as of September 2nd. This came after months during which I lapsed on my involvement with the project; I began with my contribution of a completely realigned typography.css, then began contributing small bits of advice as I developed Construct, [...]

My first client-project-Facebook-app is now live. It's a "drinking awards" app for TheCollegeNightLife.com, and it's based on a Scranton University inside joke. If you like to drink and you have friends who like to drink, you are going to love this app. You can send trophies to your friends like "Beer Pong Champion" or "Mess [...]

This is something I have to do on every new server I set up.

Something I have been working on a lot over the past two months but haven't been able to share yet.

He made things so much easier.

An open-source version of Ma.gnolia, the very-social bookmarking site, has been announced.

We haven't heard from Olav in months, so we have moved the Blueprint CSS framework to new hosting.

Another stunt in the valley is over.