http://otaqui.com/wp Pete Otaqui's personal blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:48:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/07/george-carlins-eulogy-on-kuro5hin/ 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 - ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/developing-with-mono-and-monodevelop-on-os-x/ 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/quickly-backup-to-time-machine-in-os-x/ 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/dojo-toolkit-book-reviews-dojo-the-definitive-guide-mastering-dojo/ 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, ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/reacting-to-events-with-the-dojo-dijit-editor/ 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/endlessly-disconnecting-bluetooth-and-how-to-actually-disconnect/ 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/06/transparent-iframes-in-internet-explorer-using-javascript/ Now that Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out, I've decided to give it a proper trial. I had tried running Firefox 2 and 3 in parallel on my macbook, but found that 3 would always try and become the default browser, which annoyed me enough to get rid of it. ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/05/firefox-3-rc1-extensions-2/ Since I switched to a Macbook Pro, I've felt the absence of the "Delete" key. It's not the same as the Backspace key even in text-based applications, let alone in other things such as a web browser. To the rescue comes Double Command, a Preference Pane add-in that will give ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/03/get-a-forward-delete-key-on-your-mac-book-with-double-command/ 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 ... http://otaqui.com/wp/2008/03/listing-files-with-the-path-in-bash/