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I do a lot of web programming that involves interaction with Google Maps. In cases where I need to use Google’s standard markers, it’s always a headache trying to figure out what custom markers exist. So I wrote a little script to create a list of all the standard Google marker icons availalbe.
Here is a list of all the standard Google map marker icons available:

I love to read CSS and hate it when the CSS file is all packed up together and hard to read. So, I recently wrote a simple C# application that reads a packed CSS file and unpacks it by adding spaces and making the CSS file easier to read.

I recently had to create a bar graph to highlight my skills in the portfolio section of this site. I started out being lazy and looked for a good tutorial for creating a bar graph using only CSS and HTML. After failing to find any good bar graphs, I decided to write one myself usin a combination of various techniques that I came across on the web. The result is the following bar graph:

Welcome to GorillaNinja.com. I am a web developer/web designer living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. My specialty is in front-end design and Wordpress theme development. Although I live in Canada, I have worked on various web design projects all over North America. Some of these projects include the popular Wordpress webcomic theme, WPcomic as well as the Google-maps driven StreetView Tours…