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If Operating Systems Ran the Airlines
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Domino Developer Plugin for Aptana Studio
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McCain campaign protests YouTube's DMCA policy
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Lotus Symphony 1.1 Beta for Ubuntu
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Adobe Flash Player 10 Released
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Lotus Symphony on Ubuntu 8.10
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The Ajax Experience 2008: Boston, MA
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The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can't Have
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If Operating Systems Ran the Airlines
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Domino Server/ExtJS "Timeout" Script
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Domino Developer Plugin for Aptana Studio
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 37
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Why Public Email Services Shouldn't Be Used for Sensitive Communication
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Just a quick note about secure cookies
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 33
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Retired Firefox Extensions, Sep 2008
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McCain campaign protests YouTube's DMCA policy
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Pirates give indie game dev an earful
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Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
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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: |
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Lotus Symphony 1.1 Beta for Ubuntu
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 8:51p Mdm Adph
Beta download: Lotus Symphony 1.1 I'm starting to see a trend here. Now even IBM is releasing their Linux version of Symphony in .deb format. Going to try this out in a virtual machine right away. [read] Keywords: ibm
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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?
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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.
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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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Shortest cross-browser cookie-grabbing function in the world?
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 12:31p Mdm Adph
function getCookie(cookieName) { return unescape(document.cookie.match(new RegExp(cookieName + "=([^;]+)"))[1]); }; So, whatta you think? [read] Keywords: document
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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
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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: |
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