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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin - who would undoubtedly have loved it.
Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but ...
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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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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
This little script will print a list of the current files in a directory, prefixed with the full path:
#!/bin/sh
curdir=`pwd`
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
usrdir="$1"
ls | xargs -I % echo `pwd`/% | sed -e s!$usrdir!!
else
ls | xargs -I % echo `pwd`/%
fi
You can optionally provide an initial part of the path to ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I occasionally read text files (usually downloaded from the Gutenberg Project) on my mobile phone. This is not the best user experience, but bearable and very useful at times.
The most annoying issue is the incredibly slow management of very large text files (sometimes greater than 1Mb) that my ...
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
What is DRM? Digital Restrictions Management | DefectiveByDesign.org
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