Category Archives: Programming

Desk Clean!

Finally cleaned up my desk at home. Plus I borrowed my brother’s spare LCD. Very nice having the additional screen real estate. Can’t wait to buy larger dual widescreens in the future. 30″ monitors anyone?

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Tripping up your JavaScript in IE7

After developing an intensive JavaScript website in Firefox and testing with other browsers, including IE8 in compatibility mode I discovered IE8′s compatibility mode doesn’t simulate IE7′s JS. Hence a JS bug was bringing all of IE7′s JS processing to a … Continue reading

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Gnome Do with Docky theme

So I installed Gnome Do (0.7.99.1-0) last night and it’s pretty awesome. One of the themes enables a full-fledged dock interface when not in search mode. Gnome Do on its own is an equivalent to QuickSilver which is an OSX … Continue reading

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WordPress: Query Posts

When you are interacting with WordPress’s Query Posts function the codex page gives great examples. However, the one glaring omission is documentation on how to handle variables with spaces. For example you might want to query for posts with the … Continue reading

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If You’re Not Testing Something Then Don’t Make It Default

After debugging an Ajax Internet Explorer issue for about 3 hours today at work wherein what should’ve been some simple JSON data being returned by a jQuery $.post call the server instead returned the website’s main splash page. I eventually … Continue reading

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