Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Having just downloaded and installed MonoDevelop for OS X I can say that the process of getting up and running is an absolute breeze - only involving the normal mac 'download, unpack and drop into Applications' routine.
MonoDevelop (and indeed Mono itself) allows you to build several types of application - ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
It's possible to force a backup to the OS X Time Machine facility if you have its icon visible in your toolbar, but I find that I really have enough stuff up there so try and keep it down to things I regularly use. It's also possible to force ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Having been working extensively with the Dojo Toolkit, and found their documentation to be extremely useful - but not exhaustive. I was happy therefore to be able to get hold of the following of pre-release books about the toolkit:
Dojo: The Definitive Guide
Mastering Dojo
Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
I was writing a custom set of validation routines for a form, and using Dojo's Dijit.Editor component - and having some trouble attaching my "invalid" class and a tooltip to a 'required' editor.
There were several parts to the problem:
Iframe Transparency in IE
Targeting the containing div node, the editor's iframe tag, ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Like many other people, I've had problems with an endlessly scrolling 'Disconnecting' message when my bluetooth modem connection goes down, or fails to dial up correctly.
I accidentally discovered a method for dropping the bluetooth connection properly, and removing the cycling message from the OS X menu bar:
Get iStat Pro's free ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
In order to have an IFrame with a transparent background in Internet Explorer, you need to add an "allowtransparency" attribute, like so:
<iframe src="iframe_source.html" id="iframe_id" allowtransparency="true" />
However, if you want to set the transparency with Javascript via the DOM, you must camelCase the property:
document.getElementById('iframe_id').allowTransparency = true;
Note - you must also make ...
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