From the monthly archives:

March 2008

A Window With a View

March 30, 2008

I took some pictures from my window earlier this week at work and decided to post them here to test out the new gallery feature built into WordPress 2.5. Let's see how this works.

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Daily del.icio.us for March 26th through March 27th

March 27, 2008

Ext JS Ext.ux.YoutubePlayer – The Ext.ux. YoutubePlayer is a user extension that utilizes the Youtube Chromeless API. You can embed any Youtube video into Ext native controls and place it in your application. It's like a mediaplayer built on top of Ext JS and the Youtube API.
InfoQ: Real World Web Services – In this presentation, [...]

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Simple Tags plugin & WordPress 2.5 RC2 breaks your blog

March 26, 2008

I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 RC2 and everything stopped working. Instead of getting my blog or the admin screen, I got the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function add_query_var() in taxonomy.php

I discovered the root-cause of the problem and it is the wonderful Simple Tags plugin. Disabling the [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 22nd through March 25th

March 25, 2008

SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place – Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful an
Save the Developers! [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 24, 2008

I know the latest release of WordPress, v2.5 is not officially out but I have been running WordPress 2.5 from their Subversion repository trunk for about the last week. My initial thoughts on the 2.5 release are very positive and all of my plugins and themes have worked without any major changes. Most plugin and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 20th through March 21st

March 21, 2008

Mediator Pattern – The Mediator is a behavioral design pattern that provides a central hub to guide the interactions between many objects. According to Gamma et al, the intent of the Mediator pattern is to define an object that encapsulates how a set of objects interact.
John Resig – Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (SXSW) – Today, [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 16th through March 19th

March 20, 2008

reForm: CSS Form Design Template for Any Layout (Part 2) | CSS Zone – formReForm is a methodology to style HTML forms without a huge amount of markup (or [gasp] a Table-based layout). Taking it one step further, this article discusses how to use the formReForm javascript library to create usable, accessible and beautiful us
Seifi.org [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 12th through March 16th

March 16, 2008

Raible Designs | JSP's Evolution – It started out as a discussion of JSP vs. Velocity and Craig (McClanahan) provided an interesting evolution of JSP (and comparison to Velocity).
How To Analyze Data Using the Average | BetterExplained – You drove to work at 30 mph, and drove back at 60 mph. What was your average [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 10th through March 12th

March 12, 2008

XML processing in Ajax, Part 2: Two Ajax and XSLT approaches – his series looks at four separate approaches for implementing the weather badge. This installment looks at the second and third approaches. These two approaches share one thing in common: they both use XSLT.
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 9th through March 10th

March 10, 2008

BEA JRockit Mission Control – JRockit Mission Control for Eclipse is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE designed to help develop, profile and diagnose applications running in the BEA JRockit ® JVM.
GridGain – Open Source Grid Computing For Java – GridGain is focused on doing one thing and doing it better than any [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 4th through March 7th

March 8, 2008

Software bugtraps | Software that makes software better | Economist.com – Jonathan Pincus, an expert on software reliability who recently left Microsoft Research to become an independent consultant, has observed that “the key issues [in programming] relate to people and the way they communicate and organise themselves.”
FAQ – Grid – Ext JS Forums – Here [...]

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IE8 on Acid

March 5, 2008

Just downloaded and installed the IE 8 beta and guess what – it really passes the ACID2 CSS tests. This is great news for developers everywhere. This is another piece of good news after the latest decision by the IE team to have IE 8 interpret web content in the most standards compliant [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for February 27th through March 3rd

March 3, 2008

Microsoft to offer hosted versions of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs – Yahoo! News – Microsoft has opened up its hosted version of SharePoint and Exchange to SMBs as it tries to take advantage of the demand for software as a service.
Feeling tired? Exercise a little – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Couch potatoes who complain they [...]

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