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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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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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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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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. ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
IcoFX is the best freeware icon editor for Windows.
Aside from some really crap, not-worth-mentioning, alternatives like GoldIcon, this is really it when you want a freeware icon editor that you can, apparently, use commercially.
Bonus: IcoFX is also available in an alternative zero-install portable app format.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Pádraic Brady has posted a synopsis of a discussion about the Zend Framework. The approach taken is excellent with real-world usage of the Zend code.
I have long been a fan of the concept behind the Zend Framework - which fits with my understanding of 'small pieces loosely joined' - ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Nicolas Faugout has a very neat, and tiny, method for creating an XHR object in different browsers:
if (!XMLHttpRequest) {
window.XMLHttpRequest = function() {
return new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
}
}
// ....
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
Via Ajaxian
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Hicksdesign reports that OS X Leopard will disable InputManagers, the technology behind plugins like Saft. Must admit I'm even less tempted away from my beloved Firefox now.
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