CSS3 selectors on IE8 (lack thereof!)
Tue, May 22nd 2012 6:11p Mike Brown I used to think that Internet Explorer 8 was the first version of the product that was actually any good...until I saw IE9. Then I realised that IE8, while a good deal better than its totally rubbish ... [read] Keywords: css
jQuery code completion in Aptana/Eclipse
Thu, Mar 29th 2012 4:12p Mike Brown Recently, I've been leaning towards Aptana Studio as my preferred JavaScript IDE. It's based on Eclipse and, like Eclipse, is open source and cross platform. You can use it either as a plug-in for E ... [read] Keywords: eclipse
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Google Maps Web App
Sat, Mar 24th 2012 6:12p Mike Brown Here's a simple web app that I've put together in order to show how to pull in and display data from Google Maps. In order to access the Google Maps API you need to get a Maps API key from Googl ... [read] Keywords: google
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Web server for Mac OS X
Wed, Mar 21st 2012 5:12p Mike Brown I was looking around for a local web server to install on my Mac OS X desktop and made the pleasant discovery that there's one already built in! Yep, an Apache web server is part of the default insta ... [read] Keywords: desktop
mac
macintosh
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Microsoft programmers = trained gibbons?
Tue, Mar 13th 2012 11:12p Mike Brown Maybe that's not an entirely accurate description: I don't actually think they're trained at all. A few weeks back, customers of Azure - that's Microsoft's me-too, in the cloud service - lost access ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Windows 8. Looks kind of familiar....
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 10:12p Mike Brown In case it might have escaped your attention, the beta Consumer Preview of Windows 8 (a.k.a. Microsoft's Suicide Note) arrived last week. If you're not a fan of Microsoft or its products then you'll ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Get AJAX data from *any* server... revisited
Fri, Mar 2nd 2012 8:10p Mike Brown Ajax makes web apps live and breathe, but it has a major restriction: you can only retrieve data from the same server on which you own code resides. You can get around such a limitation by using, JSO ... [read] Keywords: ajax
server
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Apple PCs are overpriced because....
Thu, Jan 19th 2012 5:10a Mike Brown ...because you can get much the same hardware spec for a generic PC (i.e. a Windows) PC for much less. That may be true, but as Neil said, there's more to the picture than meets the eye.... NB; thi ... [read] Keywords: apple
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At last, an untethered Jailbreak for iOS 5 is here!
Tue, Dec 27th 2011 11:10p Mike Brown It's taken several months, but there is now an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 (actually, 5.0.1). For those of you not familiar with this scene, "untethered" means that your phone still works after a ... [read] Keywords: iphone
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Get AJAX data from *any* server!
Thu, Nov 24th 2011 7:10a Mike Brown In the beginning there was AJAX, XML and JSON. But AJAX has a major restriction: you can only retrieve data from the same server on which you own code resides. Enter JSONP. JSONP is way of retrie ... [read] Keywords: ajax
server
xml
Loosen up LotusScript Classes rides again!
Mon, Oct 24th 2011 6:10a Mike Brown This is a follow-up to two previous posts, Class Hierarchies in LotusScript - let's loosen things up! and Multiple constructors for LotusScript objects. It illustrates techniques that I hinted that ... [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Multiple constructors for LotusScript objects
Sat, Sep 10th 2011 12:11a Mike Brown Java allows you to have multiple constructors for your classes, as long as each one has a different "signature", i.e, a different list of parameters and/or parameter types. LotusScript allows you on ... [read] Keywords: lotusscript
java
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Beers of British Columbia
Fri, Sep 9th 2011 11:14p Mike Brown This was tough work, but somebody had to do it. Lucky that me and Gem were up to the job! All beers are marked out of 10. This was typed out on my iPhone at the time, so please forgive a certain c ... [read] Keywords: iphone
Hide when printing on the web
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 6:09a Mike Brown I don't know how many years I've been telling people that Hide when Printing is a Notes Client only feature that won't work on the Web. Turns out that it's really easy to do on the web, even on cacky ... [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
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Disabled fields on Internet Explorer
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 6:13a Mike Brown Here's an annoyance that I'd not really noticed before: if you disable a field on the web, it appears greyed out on Firefox and Google Chrome, but not on IE. On IE, there's no real indication that fi ... [read] Keywords: firefox
google
Songsterr - play along to guitar tabs
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 10:14p Mike Brown Strewth! (As I've never heard anybody ever say, outside of a Paul Hogan Fosters commercial.) When I was a nipper, trying to learn guitar, we had to buy song-books and stuff. And if you shelled out ... [read] Keywords:
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Twitterfeed.com and Domino Blogs
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 6:15a Mike Brown Twitterfeed.com is a very useful (and free!) service, which lets you automatically post your blog posts to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Unfortunately, the links that appear in Twitter ... [read] Keywords: domino
facebook
twitter
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Notes on Natty 64-bit
Sat, Jun 11th 2011 12:12a Mike Brown Having successfully installed Notes on my 32-bit version of Ubuntu 11.04 (a.k.a "Natty Narhwal"), I treated myself to a new PC! With 8 Gig of RAM on board, it seemed a waste to still use the 32-bit v ... [read] Keywords: notes
ubuntu
Notes on Natty (Ubuntu 11.04)
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 6:10a Mike Brown First, lets get the provisos out of the way: Ubuntu 11.04 is not a supported platform for Lotus Notes and has not, in fact, even been released yet! I've been testing with Beta 2 with the latest updat ... [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
ubuntu
Jailbreak, there’s gonna be a jailbreak!!
Sat, Feb 19th 2011 5:09p Mike Brown Has already been one, in fact! Just jail broke my iPhone 4 via the Greenpois0n method. This gives you a whole new app store called Cydia. Cydia has all the apps that Apple says will kill dolphins ... [read] Keywords: apple
iphone
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Getting around the 15k limit
Fri, Jan 21st 2011 5:16a Mike Brown I had some script that wa attempting to pull some text data from Notes Rich Text field. The data is more than 15K in size, hence using a Rich Text rather than a plain text field. But whatever I trie ... [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
rich text
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Shopping for the perfect Aussie Android phone
Tue, Jan 11th 2011 11:12p Mike Brown … and how I ended up with something completely different: an iPhone 4, to be precise! So, how did I spend weeks and weeks of research, and who knows how many dollars spent on phone review magazines, ... [read] Keywords: iphone
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Firefinder: CSS selector for Firefox/Firebug
Thu, Dec 2nd 2010 6:13a Mike Brown Firefinder is a a very handy add-on for Firefox's Firebug debugger. It allows you to enter a CSS selector string and then put a red highlight around any elements on the page that match that selector ... [read] Keywords: css
firefox
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Domino sequential numbering, quick and dirty
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 8:28a Mike Brown In a distributed environment like Domino, sequential numbering should be avoided whenever possible. Still, there's always customers/users that insist upon having it. This is for a Change Request we ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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input not supported screen error
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 6:25a Mike Brown I sometimes get the error "input not supported" when logging in and out of my various Linux desktops. It's a funny kind of a dialog box that floats across the Linux login screen, making working on my ... [read] Keywords: linux
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10 stupid things that exist because of Microsoft
Sat, Sep 18th 2010 5:27a Mike Brown MCSEs They shouldn't exist because nobody in their right mind should be using Windows in the first place. Here, in order, is what they know how to do if you have a problem: 1. Restart the ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
Extending your classes in Domino Java
Tue, Sep 7th 2010 5:29a Mike Brown I'm making my first, fumbling excursions into the world of Java in Domino. This is, in fact, my first real dealing with Java anywhere, a fact that will no doubt be apparent to those of you that actua ... [read] Keywords: domino
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