20 Nov
by: Eric in Random
tags: deltasoft, nostalgia, perplexed, programming
I am not a nostalgic person. You cannot change the past, and as much as the past has shaped your present, the fact is, you live in that same present, today. It’s no use getting caught up in what you can’t change, or worrying about a future that may never come. However, that being said, there [...]
16 Nov
by: Matt in Development, JavaScript
tags: framework, JavaScript, jquery, prototype
Let me start off by saying I absolutely love Prototype. When a friend showed me how much it helped with writing cross-browser compatible code, I was an instant fan. Over the years of being a Prototype user I paid close attention to the many posts about why X is a better framework than Y. I [...]
2008-11-16: Updated the source code to remove the Prototype dependency This is a very simple, lightweight, object to manage the handling of events in JavaScript. Events can be arbitrarily defined and identified based on calls to listen(). Multiple actions can be handled per event and events can be triggered arbitrarily at any point in your [...]
Add these rules to your stylesheet to remove the dotted border that firefox places around (active) links. /* remove firefox link outline */ a { outline: none; } :-moz-any-link:focus { outline: none; }
10 Nov
by: Matt in CSS, Development, Django, Infrastructure, Python
Please read the update to this article Setup Python 2.6.4, mod_wsgi 2.6, and Django 1.1.1 on CentOS 5.3 (cPanel) Installing Python 2.5 dependencies Install sqlite3: $ wget http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.4.tar.gz $ tar xvfz sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.4 $ cd sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.4.tar.gz $ ./configure $ make $ make install Install Python 2.5 Download Python 2.5 source package, unzip, and enter working directory: [...]
07 Nov
by: Matt in Development, JavaScript, PHP
tags: ajax, iframe, JavaScript, long polling, php, progress bar
UPDATE 2011-01-23: I’ve revisited this old trick and fixed some bugs some of which were in the comments, so thanks. The changes are the setTimeout in the parent window’s update function (to give the DOM some time to render) and the use of str_pad to force the browser to begin parsing/execution. I’ve been developing a [...]
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