Ah … we were so innocent back then! Bemba was just a child and we could tweak to our heart’s content. Not any more! This thing is really picking up speed. It’s even getting quite hard to follow all new links in Explore. Luckily I have just added RSS feeds per topic. Now I can just follow Science, which is still doable. On to the next increase in scale…
Category Archives: tech
Sweeter unit tests in Rails 2.0
I have only just now discovered a sweet new feature of Rails 2.0. Unit and functional tests have gotten a lot sweeter. I can now subclass ActionController::TestCase and do away with all the setup cruft that used to be there. Sweet! Continue reading
Checking if popup windows are opened
Even though I’m not a javascript noob, I still manage to learn something every day. To see if a popup windows has opened, the return value of the window.open call in javascript must not be equal to null. Simple and effective. linky
Annyoing Adobe applications
My Adobe apps are bugging me and I regret ever having purchased them. I will make sure not to purchase one of their slow proggies ever again.
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Myspace captcha is broken
My favorite site (NOT) is bugging me once again. Fix your damn CAPTCHA, myspace! Continue reading
Language trickery and EJB
Or: why I left Java. Here.
Mongrel: the cat's out of the bag
Allrighty! The cat is out of the bag. Zed Shaw, creater of the Mongrel web server, has finally snapped! He’s always been a funny sort of guy, and I really do appreciate his style. Also, Mongrel is a fantastic web server even though I am using LiteSpeed myself. Anywho. Check out this rant from good ole Zed. Ouch! Brutal!
WordPress plugin: excerpts deluxe
Today I’ve written a small plugin that displays excerpts in WordPress with style. Download it here.
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MacBook blinding screen of death fix
Ever used Fast User Switch on a MacBook and were greeted with an ugly bright / washed out and barely usable display? Here is the fix. Works!
Cool tools
For web developers, there are so many cool tools right now it’s not even funny. Here are just a few.
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