Year of the Android
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 10:23a Mdm Adph Oh, I firmly agree.br /
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a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/mwc-2010-the-year-of-the-android/"MWC 2010: The Year of the Android | Gadget Lab | Wired.com/a:br /
blockquote"But the general consumer doesn’t care. They just buy the phone and get apps from either the handset maker or their carrier (if they add apps at all). They probably don’t even know they have an “Android phone”.br /
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The real customer for Android? It’s the handset manufacturers. They have been given [read] Keywords: apple
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YouTube - A Splendid Endeavour!
Mon, Feb 8th 2010 11:24a Mdm Adph div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7Oc-a0bbsk/S3Ajp0UZo6I/AAAAAAAAA8I/3C6j_bVTYEM/s1600-h/last-night-space-shuttle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="308" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7Oc-a0bbsk/S3Ajp0UZo6I/AAAAAAAAA8I/3C6j_bVTYEM/s640/last-night-space-shuttle.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /
...and there you go.nbsp; The last nighttime launch of the space shuttle any of us will ever [read] Keywords: blogger
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Palm Pre Development
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 5:29p Mdm Adph With the release of Palm's online development IDE for the Palm webOS, a href="http://ares.palm.com/"the Ares Project/a, I couldn't help but be drawn to do a little quick webOS development.nbsp; What I found was amazing.br /
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Development for the Palm webOS is really, really easy.nbsp; Like stupidly easy -- and if you're a web developer, it's even easier.br /
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Trust me -- open an account, take a look at a href="http://ares.palm.com/Ares/docstemp/tutorial.html"the first tutorial/a, grab the [read] Keywords: blogger
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Google Docs Forms - Why was I not told of this?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:03a Mdm Adph div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7Oc-a0bbsk/S0zqjZ5VhyI/AAAAAAAAA74/7aIOsUI66P4/s1600-h/googledocs-forms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7Oc-a0bbsk/S0zqjZ5VhyI/AAAAAAAAA74/7aIOsUI66P4/s320/googledocs-forms.jpg" width="320" //abr /
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First, take a look at the picture above.nbsp; Wow, an easy, information-storing, web-based form editor? [read] Keywords: blogger
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localStorage
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 12:57p Mdm Adph Lately I've been doing a bit of work with the new "localStorage" browser variable that's part of the HTML5 spec. It allows you to store key/value pairs by just setting them as a property of the "localStorage" window variable, up to a total size of 10MB (I think).
The variable is accessed on a per-domain basis, and is maintained after browser shutdown. (A similiar variable called "sessionStorage" does the exact same thing but is erased at every browser shutdown or window close.)
Pretty am [read] Keywords: blogger
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Google Notebook for Firefox 3.6
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 3:55p Mdm Adph Officially, Google dropped support for the Notebook extension with version 3.0 of Firefox, but you were able to get it working in Firefox 3.5 with this hack.
However, I've been using the Firefox 3.6 Beta for a while now, and the performance is degraded. The extension seems to still allow you to bookmark a page without going to http://notebook.google.com, but the popup doesn't register any mouseclicks.
I'm currently in the process of creating a Firefox dev environment, just to keep this ex [read] Keywords: blogger
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VMWare Email Subscription Change Request
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 11:57a Mdm Adph Received this message after changing my VMWare account preferences to stop accepting their (spam) newsletters, training requests, and special offers.
Apparently their email subscription manager server is running in a Windows 3.1 VM.
...or else they're still processing them by hand. Which makes me even happier than I now use Virualbox. [read] Keywords: blogger
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My Bookmarked Links for Sep-Oct
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 12:55p Mdm Adph (If I can't find the time to blog, the least I can do is tell you about some of the interesting stuff I've found on the web. :P )
Mockingbird - Untitled
http://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/ A great website mockup tool. Can't wait to use this.
Official Google Blog: Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/transparency-choice-and-control-now.html You wanted it -- you got it. See all the social data Google has on you.
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Plastic Logic's eBook Reader
Mon, Oct 19th 2009 5:00p Mdm Adph plastic logic ebook from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
You think a Kindle is fancy? If this thing has support for open formats and protection against Amazon-style "remote book deletion," then I think we've found the eBook reader of the future. [read] Keywords: application
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Is a Type of "Uncanny Valley" Preventing Linux Adoption?
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 3:00p Mdm Adph I've recently been working with a lot of "netbook" based distributions of Linux lately, like Intel's Moblin project or the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. In fact, I'm probably going to start doing a lot of my Linux virtual machine testing using these distributions only. Why?
Because I believe that these types of distributions are the only way that Linux is ever going to get a foothold in the consumer market.
The Facts
The "Year of Linux," as it's been thought of for years, isn't going to happe [read] Keywords: application
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The New Dell mini10 Prominently Displays Ubuntu
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 3:54p Mdm Adph This is the screen you get when you're buying a mini10 on Dell's site -- some Linux purists may scoff at the side-by-side comparison, but it's really not that bad.
I'm just amazed it's so prominently displayed on the main description pages for the mini10, but I've always said netbooks are a great market for Ubuntu -- people don't expect a netbook to be able to do everything a desktop running Windows XP can do anyway, and that's a market where Ubuntu could take hold. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Links for Aug 2009 (Mostly)
Mon, Sep 14th 2009 3:54p Mdm Adph Haven't had much time to blog lately, but I have been collecting up links of interesting things that I find here and there:
The New 3G Android phone: Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR
http://www.t-mobile.com/promotions/GenericRegular.aspx?PAsset=Pro_Pro_MotoCliqLaunch&WT.mc_id=637m3My next Android phone.
Once Again, Music Licensing Harms The DVD Release Of A Classic TV Show: The State Goes Generi
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090910/0306546149.shtml
This is just sad -- I loved [read] Keywords: blogger
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Canonical Certifies IBM Lotus Symphony for Ubuntu Repositories
Tue, Aug 11th 2009 9:53a Mdm Adph Lotus Symphony wiki Well, good job IBM! Bout damn time -- not only did it show up right away in the repositories, but it even updated the older Symphony 1.2 installation that I had installed earlier. One problem, though -- when I initially tried to open Symphony 1.3, the program exited without doing anything. Wondering what was going on, I typed "symphony" from the command line to see, and it was apparently IBM's text-based EULA for Symphony that was failing to show up, and thus not allowing S [read] Keywords: ibm
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ExtJS 2.0 Extensions and Plugins, the Movie
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 11:58a Mdm Adph Well, the book. Apparently I'm now writing one about this. Wondering if I should be permitted to -- not that I'm a novice about the subject, but I'm sure there are people far more knowledgeable than me about this subject in the world. However, if they're all busy (and with their blessings -- to the forum!), I have no problem doing it. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Links for July 2009
Tue, Aug 4th 2009 3:56p Mdm Adph 07/2009 Review: IDE to SD card adapter @ Mods n Clocks Perfect to turn an old PC into a server without having to rustle up a hard drive. Microsoft Yahoo merger - The Denver Post How can you find more information about the uniting of MS and Yahoo? Why, google it, of course. Notes 8 performance - beware of realtime virus scanning - lekkimworld.com Going to have to watch out for this when I finally upgrade to 8. GV Mobile Available for Free on Cydia - Google Voice - Lifehacker Apple's starti [read] Keywords: notes
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White House Confronts Cookies - Tech Insider
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 10:53a Mdm Adph White House Confronts Cookies - Tech Insider The White House may lift its policy barring federal Web sites from tracking users' online behavior. A Federal Register notice published on Monday seeks public comment on revisions to an existing ban on persistent cookies -- common software programs that commercial sites deposit on a visitor's computer to collect usage information.Seriously -- who cares. Let the US government use cookies. Honestly, your privacy isn't being affected -- they're the gov [read] Keywords: blogger
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Bookmarked Links for June 2009
Thu, Jul 9th 2009 3:01p Mdm Adph Amazon.com: SoundGate iO Series IOBTA35C 3.5 mm Jack Universal Bluetooth Adapter: Electronics This is just the thing I was needing to use in my car. 10 purchases not to put on credit cards | Marketplace From American Public Media Well, I'll be damned. BBC - Glow JavaScript Library Actually might use this just for fun. Jake Archibald Lead web developer for the BBC. nativeclient - Google Code Emulating x86 code in a browser? Open Letter to Apple: Let us Augment Reality with the iPhone! « G [read] Keywords: javascript
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The Legacy of Firefox
Tue, Jun 30th 2009 3:59p Mdm Adph Slashdot Comments | Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed: "Am I the only one who doesn't see the multiplicity of real competition as a threat, but rather as the greatest success of the Mozilla Foundation? Had it not been for Firefox, Opera would still cost money, Google Chrome wouldn't exist, a few people who paid way too much for their computers would be running Safari, and most (l)users would be stuck with the latest version of IE -- IE6. Thank you, Firefox, for reigniting the b [read] Keywords: javascript
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Bookmarks for May-June
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 4:55p Mdm Adph Beginners Guide For Rooting Your Android G1 To Install Cupcake | Android and Me http://www.androidandme.com/2009/05/guides/beginners-guide-for-rooting-your-android-g1-to-install-cupcake/ Lifehacker - PdaNet Tethers Android Phones to Laptops with Ease - Android http://lifehacker.com/5284420/pdanet-tethers-android-phones-to-laptops-with-ease Lifehacker - Five Must-Have Tools for Any Kitchen - Kitchen http://lifehacker.com/5284428/five-must+have-tools-for-any-kitchen Download details: U [read] Keywords: blogger
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The Horrors of Internet Customer Support
Thu, Jun 11th 2009 12:51p Mdm Adph God, I feel sorry for the guy having to respond to all these letters -- just read the comments on this page. http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sales_getprod.php?masterid=4380895&lot_id=6567273 [read] Keywords: blogger
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Using .IMG Files with Virtualbox to Test Netbook Operating Systems
Wed, May 20th 2009 3:53p Mdm Adph For weeks now I've been trying to test the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Intel's Moblin Linux operating systems, but have been unable to because I've only been able to find them as .IMG files (and not the .ISO like I'm used to). Now, there is a practical reason why these distrobutions are released in .IMG form -- .IMG files are apparently intended to be immediately flashed onto USB thumb drives, since most netbooks don't have CD-ROM's at all (the usual destination of an .ISO file). However, I haven [read] Keywords: blogger
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Abandoned Firefox Extensions for May
Mon, May 18th 2009 10:49a Mdm Adph I don't dislike these extensions -- don't get the wrong idea. However, every now and then I go through my extension list on Firefox to see what extensions have now had their functionality duplicated by Firefox's native features, what extensions I simply don't use anymore, or what extensions haven't been updated in a long time. I list them here to remember them by, for some of them have been with me for a long time. (Excuse me, I have a tear in my eye.) "Blue Ice" Firefox Theme Hasn't been upda [read] Keywords: forms
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Connect Betterer - The Daily WTF
Mon, May 11th 2009 3:54p Mdm Adph Connect Betterer - The Daily WTF An article on The Daily WTF about the importance of not solely relying upon client-side validation for your needs. Though, I guess it's really about just poor, poor, poor web programming in general. [read] Keywords: blogger
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My Bookmarked Links for April 2009
Mon, May 11th 2009 11:56a Mdm Adph Diatomaceous earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth One nation, seven sins - Las Vegas Sun http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/mar/26/one-nation-seven-sins/ NPR: Power Hungry: Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/apr/electric-grid/ Lifehacker - Lesser-Known Firefox Feature Slows Down Mouse Wheel Scrolling Speed - Firefox http://lifehacker.com/5221682/lesser+known-firefox-feature-slows-down-mouse-wh [read] Keywords: domino
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Fun with Cookie Expiration
Fri, May 1st 2009 3:49p Mdm Adph So, I had a bit of code that would delete a cookie if the date that I set it ("sessionTimeBegan", which I stored in a variable) turned out to be on the previous day as when I was checking it: if (MDM.VARS.MAIN.sessionTimeBegan.clearTime(true) < (new Date()).clearTime()) { // delete cookie } Then I remembered that you can just set cookies to expire on a certain time and date and that this is utterly stupid. Don't do this. That being said, I did learn about ExtJS's "clearTime()" and " [read] Keywords: blogger
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My Bookmarked Links for 03/09/09-03/31/09
Wed, Apr 8th 2009 10:49a Mdm Adph Trapster® - Sign Up For Your Free Account Now https://www.trapster.com/signup.php 3 Free Ways to Geolocate By IP http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/03/31/3-free-ways-to-geolocate-by-ip/ One Man's Experience With the Stop-Smoking Drug Chantix -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/43892/ Drug Agents Raid SF Medical Marijuana Clinic - cbs5.com http://cbs5.com/local/medical.marijuana.raid.2.968019.html Nominative determinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http:// [read] Keywords: domino
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NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station
Wed, Apr 1st 2009 10:51a Mdm Adph Just a comment I saw over at Slashdot. In case you're not familiar with the story, try this link first. Name the [part of the] station "Colbert". The publicity will only do NASA good. It will help popularize space funding amongst an audience of political science students -- and likely future politicians, as well as a whole bunch of other people who simply don't care. Stephen is a friend of NASA, his audience isn't comprised of space geeks on the whole. Having Stephen get them interested in Spa [read] Keywords: blogger
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Flash Cookies: Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em
Thu, Mar 26th 2009 4:57p Mdm Adph Have you heard about them? I learned about these a while back, and nearly kicked myself -- I take great lengths to always get rid of tracking cookies, but had never even known about these (though, now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense that Flash would have its own system for managing stored information). Want to see what I'm talking about? Go here, and take a look at what it's showing: http://www.macromedia.com/support/.../settings_manager07.html I'm betting there's a list of almo [read] Keywords: blogger
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Mozilla's Ubiquity
Thu, Mar 26th 2009 3:52p Mdm Adph I know I said it before about JSON and regretted it (though it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship). However, I just don't seem to get Mozilla's Ubiquity project, and I've even watched their whole video, and have seen and read stuff about Ubiquity for almost a year now. I mean -- is including a link in an email really that cumbersome and terrible? :\ Is having to use an extension to process things with tinyurl.com so horrible you want to be able to do it through text commands? But, li [read] Keywords: blogger
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Two Things I Learned Today
Thu, Mar 12th 2009 4:53p Mdm Adph Well, three. 1) If you're planning on being sick, make sure it's not on a day where you have a big exercise and you're running the IT. 2) There's a reason why the JSON spec says to always always use double quotes, and always quotify your keys: // LIKE THIS: { "success": true, "data": { "RescPhone": "334-555-5555", "RescStatus": "Available", "RescComments": "Test%20test%20test." }, "unid": "AABEF75B28304F008625755A007303D3", "isEditable": true } //NOT THIS: { success: true, data: [read] Keywords: domino
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Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense
Tue, Mar 10th 2009 5:54p Mdm Adph Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | Video on TED.com I love hearing and reading about what goes on at the yearly TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference -- it's like a big symposium where people demo new technologies and products. You'll see stuff demonstrated here 5 years or more before it possibly comes to the market (which it nearly always does). This is where I saw a technology strangely similiar to "Microsoft Surface" demonstrated years before Microsoft announced it (I still [read] Keywords: application
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My Bookmarked Links from the week of March 2 2009
Mon, Mar 9th 2009 6:55p Mdm Adph HTML Emails The Easy Way | Article | CodeStore http://www.codestore.org/store.nsf/unid/FISR-6MQSWV?OpenDocument The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project https://ssd.eff.org/ Reports: Microsoft lets users yank IE8 from Windows 7 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9128976 Prosecutors drop Fort Lauderdale case after beating videos emerge -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Nine Browsers of Today and Tomorrow Compared
Fri, Mar 6th 2009 5:57p Mdm Adph Browser Battle: Nine Browsers of Today and Tomorrow Compared - Maximum PC: Also notice that only newegg.com appears in black in the address bar, while the rest of the URL is grayed out. This is by design and intended to make it easier to identify what domain you're visiting. This also serves to help end users from being fleeced by spoof sites. Okay, I've got to admit that's very nice. As long as users start to notice, this tiny little thing could go a long way towards helping users avoid phis [read] Keywords: microsoft
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My Bookmarked Links from the Week of Feb 23, 2009
Thu, Mar 5th 2009 5:54p Mdm Adph (Going to try and start doing this each week -- you don't have to read the whole thing, but I find lots of neat stuff on the web during my lunch breaks, and just thought I'd like to share the links I often bookmark.) Tracking the Remains of Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 | Orbiting Frog http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/2009/02/19/tracking-the-remains-of-iridium-33-and-cosmos-2251/ Atom | Post | Anti-Scientology...Infomercials? http://community.atom.com/Post/AntiScientologyInfomercials/03EFBFFFF0182 [read] Keywords: javascript
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New Blog Code Displaying via SyntaxHighter
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 5:58p Mdm Adph See it below? Isn't it just the neatest? I had been displaying my code blocks on here with a bit of custom CSS that I had made, but I had always seen these really neat formatters for code displaying on blogs (with the syntax highlighting and the line numbers and all that). So, after reading someone's blog one day and seeing one of these displayed yet again, I finally decided to get my own. Thankfully, the blog in question was using a syntax highlighter that had a handy "About" link on each on [read] Keywords: javascript
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Yahoo Fined By Belgian Court For Refusing To Give Up E-Mail Account Info
Mon, Mar 2nd 2009 5:55p Mdm Adph Yahoo Fined By Belgian Court For Refusing To Give Up E-Mail Account Info Yahoo got fined for its unwillingness to cooperate in a cyber-criminal investigation which prompted Belgian authorities to subpoena detailed account data for a number of e-mail addresses used by a gang of alleged internet cons. Yahoo’s defense was that it would only respond to requests from American authorities, while the Belgian investigators claim it should turn over the data at their request too because the company op [read] Keywords: google
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Microsoft files patent suit against TomTom
Thu, Feb 26th 2009 5:53p Mdm Adph Microsoft files patent suit against TomTom You know, I take back everything I said two days ago. I wish those suing Microsoft for monopoly activities the best of luck. I don't care what the law in the US says, it's not right to sit on a patent for years and years, not enforcing it, but then when someone rises to the top of their market, sue them. Patents should be treated like trademarks, in my opinion -- if you don't enforce it, you lose it. [read] Keywords: microsoft
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MS Force to Offer Other Browsers -- Does This Really Matter Anymore?
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 5:53p Mdm Adph EurActiv.com - EU to oblige Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers You know, back when IE had about 95% of the market share, I would have probably cheered this decision on, but now that IE's market share has dipped to below 75% (or even lower depending upon who you ask) and is just going lower, do we really even need this anymore? Most people in the know -- and even plenty of novice computer users --already know that "Internet Explorer = Unsafe," "That Firefox Thing = Safe," thanks in part [read] Keywords: firefox
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IBM Design - iNotes for the iPhone
Tue, Jan 27th 2009 5:51p Mdm Adph IBM Design - Design gallery: Software - iNotes on iPhone Together at last! It actually looks to be a very, very well made app -- if I ever get my hands on an iPhone or iPod touch, I'd love to give this a try. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream - NYTimes.com
Fri, Jan 16th 2009 5:52p Mdm Adph Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream - NYTimes.com A very timely story from the NY Times about Ubuntu! It's glad to hear that it's finally self-sustaining (when talking about revenue). Hell, that's more than a lot of companies can say today. [read] Keywords: ubuntu
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Complex Conditional XTemplate Logic in ExtJS 2.2
Fri, Jan 9th 2009 5:51p Mdm Adph Let's say you've got a bit of JSON data -- something like: { ReqPhoneSelection: "Primary", ReqPrimaryPhone: "555-5555", ReqAlt1Phone: "666-6666", ReqAlt2Phone: "777-7777" } And you want to show just the one phone number as defined in "ReqPhoneSelection" in a fancy HTML template you've made in Ext. How to do it? Well, you probably knew about ExtJS's conditional logic in the XTemplate system, but you know you have to check against strings for something like this, so how to do it when you've alr [read] Keywords: javascript
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Merry Christmas!
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 6:51p Mdm Adph I swear I'm not dead or anything -- just been really busy getting some good EXTJS/Domino code together. I should have quite a bit of code libraries to post here in the new year! [read] Keywords: domino
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Amazon's MP3 Service, With Full Linux Support
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:51p Mdm Adph I've always liked the look of Amazon's burgeoning online MP3 store -- no DRM, no proprietary player, 280 kbps encoding rate -- there's almost no downside. You can buy individual tracks or whole albums at once, and their prices (for plain MP3's) are cheaper than iTunes.
So, when I saw that they required a special "downloader" to get tracks, I immediately thought, "Oh, great -- another DRM-free service that could've been perfect, were it not for the lack of a non-Windows software version." Beca [read] Keywords: application
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If Operating Systems Ran the Airlines
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 7:52p Mdm Adph [This is an old one, but a good one, and one that I didn't hear before today. It had me laughing quite a few times.] UNIX Airways Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building. Air DOS Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again. Then they [read] Keywords: agent
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Domino Developer Plugin for Aptana Studio
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 7:51p Mdm Adph Domino Developer Plugin for Aptana Studio This seems like a neat plug-in -- anybody actually able to get it to work? I tried with Notes 7, but couldn't get anything, even after doing the Windows PATH variable fix. [read] Keywords: domino
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McCain campaign protests YouTube's DMCA policy
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph McCain campaign protests YouTube's DMCA policy | Politics and Law - CNET News "In a letter (PDF) sent to YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and company attorneys on Monday, the campaign charges that 'our advertisements or Web videos have been the subject of DMCA takedown notices regarding uses that are clearly privileged under the fair use doctrine.' The DMCA is, of course, the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act that allows copyright holders to submit takedown notices."I personally find this hilarious, [read] Keywords:
Adobe Flash Player 10 Released
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph Adobe Flash Player Download Center - Linux Well, Flash 10 finally came out today, for all systems, simultaneously (Linux included). Very, very neat. And, for once, it's actually easier to install this now if you're using Firefox on Linux than if you're using Firefox on Windows... While the install is easy in Internet Explorer on Windows (in-browser ActiveX installation), on Firefox on Windows you have to download a file, close down your browser, and run the file. Firefox on Linux? (If you us [read] Keywords: firefox
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Lotus Symphony on Ubuntu 8.10
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph I was almost looking forward to making a big entry about this, full of hacks, neat little tricks, and other goodies that I'd discovered.
I'd go in depth about what console commands I'd used to install Lotus Symphony on Ubuntu, what additional packages I'd have to install, what amazing little tweaks would be necessary to get it to work.
However, they'll be none of that today. IBM has released Lotus Symphony as a .deb file, and like many developers and companies are figuring out, that's the [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Ajax Experience 2008: Boston, MA
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph The Ajax Experience 2008: Boston, MA Okay -- this is a real, real small point, but why does the main website for the Ajax Experience 2008 (the big time Ajax conference) use Flash for its main animation on the front page? :\ It's not even very fancy Flash -- this definitely could have been made in JavaScript. :P [read] Keywords: javascript
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Why Public Email Services Shouldn't Be Used for Sensitive Communication
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:48p Mdm Adph I really, really don't like commenting on political topics, but this one has an important email security message involved in it: McCain camp seeks investigation over reported e-mail hack Sarah Palin Yahoo account 2008 -- Wikileaks In case you haven't heard, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account was hacked (apparently by the notorious internet group "Anonymous" -- reports state that it may have been done for the lulz). Yeah -- her Yahoo email account... that she was usi [read] Keywords: lotus
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The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:49p Mdm Adph The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have I would love to buy this car if they sold it in the US. Funny that Ford's reasoning for not selling this car in America is "the greater price of diesel fuel" -- I'm currently paying 10 cents less for diesel fuel than I would for gasoline, where I'm at. :\ [read] Keywords:
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Retired Firefox Extensions, Sep 2008
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 8:49p Mdm Adph Tabs Open Relative -- A good little extension, but redundant now that TabMixPlus is (somewhat) working in FF3.Regular Expressions Tester -- Good extension that served me for a long time, but not needed since I found regexpal.com/.IE Tab -- This extension was all but necessary two years ago, but now that web designers have smartened up, I hardly ever use it anymore. A good extension, though, and one that I used much a while back.MediaWrap (compatibility layer for IE-only media plugins) -- like IE [read] Keywords: development
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Domino Server/ExtJS "Timeout" Script
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 8:54p Mdm Adph Just reposting a bit of code I posted over on the ExtJS forums.
Here's a script that works all by itself -- just place it into your overrides file for your ExtJS/Domino app. Whenever your user's connection to the server has timed-out (and your app tries to fire an Ajax request), the timed-out Ajax request will be cached, the user will be prompted to log back in, and the previous Ajax request will be fired again, with no interruption in code execution. Pretty neat, eh?
/*
DOMINO Server Ex [read] Keywords: domino
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Getting Java to work on Google Chrome
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 7:57p Mdm Adph You're probably wondering yourself, so I'll make this quick: As I found out on this forum post [java.net], you have to download the number 10 release to Java 6, available here: http://download.java.net/jdk6/ I downloaded it, installed it, and now Google Chrome has Java. Easy as pie. [read] Keywords: google
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Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
Google, I love ya, but please:
#1) Having multiple tabs (each utilizing their own javascript environment) is not "multi-threaded JavaScript." Don't call it that. True multi-threaded JavaScript is the dream of all web developers -- don't tease us.
And I hate to point this out, but the whole multiple processes thing -- wasn't that actually Microsoft's idea, first?
#2) "New Tab Page" with nine easy-access pages -- Opera's Speed Dial.
[read] Keywords: javascript
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Just a quick note about secure cookies
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 1:52p Mdm Adph In response to the recent Google HTTPS flaw discovery (don't worry, it's nothing major -- just a technical point), I've now decided to start adding this flag to all of my cookies, as well. There's an easy way to do it with Ext, too, and I did this right away with my cookie-settings scripts in Domino. In your cookie setting function, after whatever assignment you use to create the "Path" part of the cookie, just add: (Ext.isSecure ? ";secure" : "") So, the end of your cookie string should loo [read] Keywords: domino
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Pirates give indie game dev an earful
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 9:51a Mdm Adph You want to know why? Pirates give indie game dev an earful
"Piracy is a popular excuse for poor-selling PC games, and while the issue is discussed in the gaming press and between developers nearly endlessly, not much changes. The developers and publishers still use annoying forms of DRM, the pirates still crack the games within hours, and people who aren't interested in the status quo are rarely listened to. Cliff Harris, an independent game developer with Positech Games, actually did somethin [read] Keywords: forms
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The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog
Mon, Aug 4th 2008 3:11p Mdm Adph The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog Damn -- I could say something like "quitter," but this guy's been fighting for 25 years, and has earned his break. He's probably tired as hell from beating his head against the wall time and time again, like he says in his second reason for leaving: Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing failed business models, to suppress new bu [read] Keywords:
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A Bugfix for Several Ext Datefield and Timefield Problems
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 9:41a Mdm Adph Been trying to use a custom datetime format (e.g., "g:i:s A", etc.) with your xtype "datefield" and "timefield" components, but not having any luck? Turns out there were some bugs with the datetime scripts in the final release of Ext 2.1. There's quite a few explained here at the official fix -- the most notable one for me was the fact that no matter how many times I tried to apply a custom format to my timefields (I needed seconds to show up, as well), the seconds part of the formatting was st [read] Keywords: firefox
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Ext Form Fields and the hidden "enableKeyEvents" parameter
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 10:51a Mdm Adph Been coding your ExtJS form fields, but wondering why you're unable to capture key events? Keep adding "keypress" and "specialkey" event listeners only to find them not fire? Wondering just where the hell the "enableKeyEvents" parameter is supposed to go? Well, I was too. Turns out in all TextFields, there's a hidden "enableKeyEvents" param that defaults to false -- unless you set it explicitly to true, your key events won't be captured. Yeah, apparently it made it to the last release of Ext b [read] Keywords: php
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The IE6 PNG Transparency Fix
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 10:15a Mdm Adph Well, I can confirm that the IE 6/5.5 PNG Transparency Fix works fine on a Domino server (at least one running on Windows Server). I was a little bit worried about it serving up .htc files as MIME type "text/x-component", but it seems to serve them up just fine.
I've known about this fix for a long time, but have just kinda put up with the way PNG's looked on IE6 up until now (in case you didn't know, IE6 wasn't built with PNG transparency support, and Microsoft has never released a fix for [read] Keywords: domino
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Yahoo pulls an MSN Music (only faster)
Fri, Jul 25th 2008 9:47a Mdm Adph Yahoo pulls an MSN Music (only faster) | Bit Player | Los Angeles Times This afternoon, Yahoo alerted customers of its erstwhile downloadable music store that it would no longer provide support after Sept. 30 (download the cheerful e-mail here). The upshot: starting Oct. 1, said customers won't be able to revive frozen tracks or move working ones onto new hard drives or computers, because Yahoo won't be providing any more keys to the songs' DRM wrappers. But hey, they can always buy MP3 versions [read] Keywords: wiki
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MPD Enforcer 2.0
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 3:44p Mdm Adph MPD Enforcer 2.0 This is beautiful. An anonymous blogger (probably someone secretly on the police force in Memphis) using the internet to fight corruption. What's special about it? Well, he seems to be winning. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Great Smog of 1952 - Wikipedia
Wed, Jul 23rd 2008 9:41a Mdm Adph Great Smog of 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Now I know where William Gibson got the idea of the smog-choked London in The Difference Engine. [read] Keywords: wiki
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Coolite Toolkit for ASP.NET Web Controls
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 11:27a Mdm Adph Coolite Toolkit for ASP.NET Web ControlsJust found this recently -- apparently it's a rather well-made plug-in for Visual Studio that'll help integrate ExtJS into your ASP web applications. I'm not too fond of server-side-constructed JS (always preferred to keep my JS client-side), but hell -- I never thought I'd start using frameworks like ExtJS, either. I'll keep taking a look and post back eventually with some more info about it. Also in the news: IBM.com: Build Ajax applications with Ext J [read] Keywords: ibm
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Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users - EFF
Thu, Jul 3rd 2008 1:53p Mdm Adph Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation Well, apparently the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) doesn't apply to the internet yet. Great. You see -- sometimes just a little bit more regulation would be useful in situations like this. In case you didn't know, the VPPA is a law that protects you from having your view habits exposed -- no matter who wants them. However -- and this is another problem -- the law uses archaic terms like "vid [read] Keywords:
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...and back to Firefox 2.0.
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 11:12a Mdm Adph No offense, but I just can't use 3.0 anymore for development. -_-' If it wasn't for the fact that my Greasemonkey scripts only selectively work now (I've yet to figure out why some of them work and some of them don't -- and these are simple, simple scripts)... Or that my favorite extension, TabMixPlus hasn't been fully updated yet and is still just a development copy and could be causing problems... It's that Firebug doesn't work correctly (the 3.0 version is still in beta, and is sometimes e [read] Keywords: archive
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Quick Article Roundup -- Easy and Adblock, and Google Defines Obscenity
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 3:39p Mdm Adph One Man, One Long List, No More Web Ads - washingtonpost.com
A quick story about "Rick752," the guy behind the AdBlock Plus filterset EasyList. I don't really depend upon AdBlock Plus to block ads for me (I depend upon the NoScript extension to block ad servers -- much easier and quicker -- I stopped using AdBlock Plus due to the enormous memory leaks it had in Firefox version 2), but I support people who do.
Once again, this whole issue stems from a misunderstanding of how the internet w [read] Keywords: javascript
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AT&T's Pogo Browser Beta Test
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 3:22p Mdm Adph A New Competitor A little while ago, you may remember my quick review on the upcoming AT&T-funded browser, Pogo. I couldn't test it at the time since their release process seems to be overly strict -- you couldn't even download the beta unless you sign up and then are approved. I signed up just for the hell of it back in April, and about a week ago, I was actually approved. :P Back in April, when Ars Technica did their review on Pogo, they revealed that the hardware specs necessary for its [read] Keywords: javascript
apple
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A Sad, Sad Day
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 4:07p Mdm Adph House Caves, Approves Fake 'Compromise' on Telecom Immunity -- EFF Press Release I really don't get political on this blog, but this is very, very tech-related. I think someone on Fark.com said it best: July of 2003 I got a ticket for going 45 in a 35mph zone. August of 2003 - a week after my ticket - they raised the limit on that road to 45 mph. September 2003, the judge condescendingly explained to me that just because the law changed AFTER I broke it, it was still illegal when I did it an [read] Keywords:
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Why It's Okay to 'Steal' Wifi Internet
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 1:16p Mdm Adph Why it's OK to "steal" Wi-Fi | Computerworld Blogs "When you open up your trusty laptop, check for available networks, choose one and click 'Connect,' you're instructing your computer hardware and software to communicate with the hardware and software that's providing the Wi-Fi network and ask permission to use the network. When you do this, a router either grants permission, and assigns an IP address for you to use, or denies permission. If the connection simply works, it means by definition [read] Keywords: laptop
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Kid Rock boycotts iTunes over pa
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 11:58a Mdm Adph BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Kid Rock boycotts iTunes over pay "The performer - whose real name is Robert Ritchie - said his record company Atlantic had asked him to 'stand up for illegal downloading' a few years ago because it told him 'people are stealing from us and stealing from you'. 'And I go: 'Wait a second, you've been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?' 'I was telling kids - download it illegally, I don't care. I want you to hear my music so I can [read] Keywords: atlantic
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The Looming Dotcom Bust 2.0
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 4:27p Mdm Adph Techdirt: Google Admits It Still Hasn't Figured Out How To Make Money From YouTube Instead, the real focus should be on the fact that YouTube videos themselves are advertising -- the question is just: for what? For what? For ISP's. It's really quite basic. Videos on Youtube advertise just how fun it is to be on the Internet, and you have to pay somebody to be on the Internet, don't you? Be it your cable provider, your cellphone provider, your local coffee shop for their WiFi -- all the same. [read] Keywords: google
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Unintentional Poetry: "lilliputian trephination"
Wed, Jun 18th 2008 10:05a Mdm Adph I'm probably not the first to ever do this, but have you ever looked at the spam you're getting in your email boxes today? Sometimes I do, just for fun -- the spam that's actually received in a GMail account is always very little (their filters are really, really good), so I sometimes take the time out to read through them. They're always about viagra (or V1A G RA), or watches, or some other silly thing, and over the past few years or so I guess spammers have been trying to pad their spam email [read] Keywords: email
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Steampunk USB Drives and Franken-laptops
Fri, May 23rd 2008 10:05a Mdm Adph Gadgets: Steampunk USB Drive, Because You Don't Yet Have a Steampunk USB Drive I want I want I want I want Me Me Me Me My My My My Now Now Now. Xentex dual 13.3-inch screen laptop surfaces on eBay I honestly don't know what to say. [read] Keywords: laptop
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The "Delete" Keyword in JavaScript
Wed, May 21st 2008 4:22p Mdm Adph Ever used it? Well, before today, I hadn't! Basically, if you've got an object, and you're wanting to completely remove a property that it has (not just set it to "null" or "undefined"), you use this keyword! Say you've got: myObject = {prop1: "blah", prop2: "blah"} And you want to remove "prop2" -- not just remove it's value; remove it completely from the object. This is important when returning values to the server -- just the presence of a property name even without a corresponding value ca [read] Keywords: javascript
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Napster rolls out all-MP3 download store
Tue, May 20th 2008 1:26p Mdm Adph Napster rolls out all-MP3 download store - Yahoo! News The company is the latest to make the switch to the unrestricted file format, which makes it music tracks compatible with virtually any music player or other device. "It's great that we have finally gotten here," said Chris Gorog, Napster's chairman and chief executive. "It is really the beginning of a level playing field, which I think is essential for Napster, but also for the health of the digital music business in general." Tracks dow [read] Keywords:
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Installing the Flash 10 Pre-release on Ubuntu 8.04 with the Firefox 3 Beta
Thu, May 15th 2008 2:49p Mdm Adph ...isn't the same as what you'd (or the Linux flash installer) expect. First of all, make sure you go into Synaptic (System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager), search for "flash", sort by what's installed (just click on the column titled "S"), and then uninstall the two flash-related packages. That'll remove the old flash packages for FF3. Then, download the tarball of the Flash 10 installer (go ahead and close down your browser and use "wget" in the terminal, lazy butt), un... err, "bal [read] Keywords: administration
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The Last Straw
Fri, May 9th 2008 4:38p Mdm Adph Okay, I've had it. Though I have to design on it (and eventually I'm going to be forced to use it at work), I now absolutely refuse to ever install Vista on any of my home machines. Why? You may remember from my post a while back about Vista's disk defragmenter program trying to contact the internet; well, today whilst in the clutches of my virtual machine, Vista beat that: Seriously, that's it. The last straw. The last dance. If this was Germany, I'd say something ominous-sounding in Germ [read] Keywords: blogger
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Stop Windows from Copying Files Accidentally When Ctrl-Click Selecting
Fri, May 9th 2008 1:16p Mdm Adph Fixing Annoyances: Stop Windows from Copying Files Accidentally When Ctrl-Click Selecting :: the How-To Geek Have you ever tried to select a bunch of files in Windows Explorer while holding down the Ctrl key, and then all of a sudden there are duplicate copies of all of those files sitting in the folder? Really irritating, so how do we fix it? And to think I've used TweakUI for nearly 6 years now without finding out about this little tip. This "accidental copying" of files in the Windows Explor [read] Keywords: vista
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Nesting "default" Configurations in Ext Component Declarations
Wed, May 7th 2008 5:15p Mdm Adph (Man I love fancy-schmancy sounding titles.) Did you know that you could nest your "default" specifications when doing ExtJS lazy-rendering? Try it! Take the following example "default" spec for a panel that you create: defaults: { // applied to each contained form autoHeight: true, bodyStyle: "background-color: transparent;", defaults: { // Applied to each fieldset within the form autoHeight: true, defaultType: "radio", defaults: { // applied to everything [read] Keywords:
