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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 [...]

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; }

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: [...]

I’ve been developing a stock market screener with some advanced functionality.  Some of the parameters a user might enter, because of their complexity or sheer volume of data required to calculate, would cause the screener to run for considerable amounts of time before returning results.  The opportunity to create a progress bar presented itself.  EVERY [...]

  

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