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jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and while it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t work with some of the fantastic jQuery plugins I am already using, there’re some really cool new features. In particular (this is my favorite), built-in cross-domain script loading via the getScript is just too convenient.This would be awesome for loading heavy scripts later ...
After seeing this amusingly-named SSID, I thought it’d be fun to post the SSID of my wireless network at home:The name is completely not my idea so I claim no credit - I stole it from my girlfriend’s brother, who conceived the SSID of “AssAssID”.What’s your SSID and have you seen any amusing ones? Or ...
This is really nice: trunk builds of Firefox 3 since 1 Sept 2007 have a smarter Password Manager that asks you whether you want to save your passwords in a non-modal way. (The relevant enhancement ticket is replace modal pre-submit save password dialog with post-submit bar for those of you who want to read the ...
Firefox 3, or Gran Paradiso, is really shaping up with some pretty cool new features being implemented in the recent months. That’s not including the cool FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) JavaScript library that promises to make extension development a bajillion times more productive, Places for data storage, and the use of Cairo for graphics.The ...
RE: the recent anime and IP controversy in Singapore, everyone affected in Singapore should read this sensible post by Dark Mirage. He offers really good advice on what you should and shouldn’t do should you find yourself the recipient of one of Odex’s letters. Be sure to read the comments too.
About a month ago, I logged in to Google Reader to see a shocking thing - all my subscriptions were gone and I was subscribed to some feeds that I’ve never heard of.I would say I’m a pretty heavy Google Reader user, checking my several hundred subscriptions several times a day, so it was pretty ...
I just noticed a very fresh changeset committed into the Rails trunk that’s pretty damn cool: changeset 7315. Michael Koziarski (aka nzkoz”) has refactored ActiveRecord’s attribute-related methods that, among other things:caches typecasted attribute values in hashes. This avoids expensive typecasting (such as for Time-related attributes) which means access …
I thought it was funny (I was a hardcore World of Warcraft player). All the features are so true too. Fully PvP rawr! The penalty of death sucks though - if you thought the experience point penalty in EverQuest was bad, think again.
I’ve always thought the Rails installation instructions on the official Rails website were pretty straightforward, so I couldn’t help laughing when I saw this chat transcript a friend copied and pasted for me:[5:23:05 PM] X says: try so many times finally can le[5:23:23 PM] X says: it is not about the version or wat[5:23:46 PM] ...
Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough, <div>s and CSS rules make up the style. ...
Business 2.0 recently published an article on the world’s hottest startups outside the US and Bezurk was picked. Nice to know that ;)
YSlow is a Firefox extension that works with Firebug to grade your web pages’ performance and gives you advice on how to fix any problems. Awesome. It has JSLint built into it too. Via Arun (IRL).
Tom Preston-Werner (of Gravatar and Chronic fame) wrote about this neat MySQL command line “trick” where instead of ending your SELECT statements with the usual semi-colon, using a “\G” gives you a very readable output.mysql> select * from locations where location_code = 'SIN' limit 1G*************************** 1. row *************************** …
God is a new process monitoring Ruby framework with a rather rather apt name (no, it’s not that God). The config files looks something like that:God.meddle do |god| god.watch do |w| ... endendInteresting code to write. And feels safe too to have God watching over your mongrels. Oh and you ...
I’ve never actually explored log rotation tools in Linux and merely knew of the existence of logrotate and left it at that until log sizes really became a problem. Turns out logrotate is amazingly easy to configure, and thanks to this Logrotate and Mongrel blog post by Corey Donohoe I have it setup for my ...
If you’ve tried to output JSON from your Rails applications before, you’d probably have noticed how inadequate it all seems. Let’s look at the kind of output (pretty-printed for easier reading) you get from calling to_json on your typical User model:{ attributes: { id: 1, name: "Konata", ...
Season 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya was announced in the August 2007 edition of NewType Japan - check out the scans. The announcement isn’t official, but there’ll be one on the 7th - that’s 7/7/2007!
Not too long ago a couple of the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS) VPSs we use abruptly became inaccessible. These VPSs were NIS clients that suddenly could no longer connect to the NIS master. Great. And as far as I could tell I didn’t do anything to those servers. I even managed to replicate the problem on another similar VPS (that was still accessble) simply by …
I had to spend some time setting up Xen on one of the new Dell servers we bought and while there was some documentation around, I had to constantly refer to the different sources since there wasn’t a complete page which had everything I needed for my particular situation - I have a host machine with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installed and wanted to install a couple of Xen …
Read the bug fix announcement. Upgrade! This was causing extremely puzzling crashes in Safari on Macs (pre-Safari 3 beta) on one of our applications and I’m glad (in some ways) that the problem lay with the Prototype library.
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