I upgraded Penny’s computer to Vista yesterday. I had my eye open for UX issues, just for professional curiosity. There were so many screw ups, that I got a little depressed. In the install, Microsoft has moved to a system that says virtually nothing about what is going on. I think they mistook the user’s…
A guy on the jQuery mailing list asked how to achieve a goal. He had a table with checkboxes in them. He wanted the last checkbox to change the values of all the ones in that row. The first answer came from Roman Weich which was: $(‘input.rowChecker’).click(function(){ $(this).parent().siblings(‘.updateItems’).find(‘input[@type=checkbox]’).attr(‘checked’,this.checked);}); I loook at it and thought. Hmm, it…
JavaScript Libraries are definetely changing the way developers approach the client-side. Richness in the UI is becomming easier and easier. (Remember designers: With great UI power comes great UI responsibility.) What is happening now is an explosion of different libraries that all do similar things in different ways. Of course, I am a staunch support…
This is my idea for a cool site that would help alot of people. The URL is available now: jsFrameworks.com. It would have sections for all the javascript frameworks. The idea is to have similar or identical challenges with the different implementations from the different JS Framework communities. So, for example, there would be a…
I was forced to do the unthinkable. I used my first css hack. I was trying to modify the style of an existing UL-LI structure as a row of tabs. Everything was honkey-dory until I tested in IE6. I looked at it and said, “Yuck”. The LI’s were not stacking in a left-to-right format no…
Our whole telephony situation has been in flux. First, we are sick of Vonage acting like crap. We are taking our first steps to getting rid of it completely. Second, we have been sick of Cingular getting crappy coverage. So we pulled the trigger and got new Verizon phones this week. It was a surprisingly…
My wife often tells me. Never say anything bad about anyone or anything ever. And ESPECIALLY not in print, email or blog. She is wise. It reminded me of the first days of commadot.com. http://web.archive.org/web/19970618002257/www.commadot.com/beta/html/archive.htm I am starting to copy in those posts and edit the timestamp to match the original. http://www.commadot.com/index.php?paged=47 Hmm, I wonder…
Ive been working hard trying to learn how to do what came so naturally and easy to me in jQuery in YUI and YUI-ext. I have been scouring the forums and the documentation. I can’t understand any of it. It just isn’t designed for a non-programmer. But I have no choice. YUI-ext is the framework…
I installed Vista on Katie’s laptop and my desktop. We had to upgrade Katie’s ram because it was running SO SLOW at 1G, so we went to 1.5G. The installation was a pain in the ass. First of all, it wouldn’t let me upgrade from XP Pro to Home Premium. I had to do a…
I tried out Xinha 4 WordPress, but it didn’t quite work the way I wanted. I am unhappy with all of these editors. 🙁 Now I am trying Code Markup. It supposedely makes it so I can put in code snippets easier.
Using Script tags in WordPress is a pain in the ass. They have a visual tab and a code tab, but the code tab does some strange parsing. I want a REALLY code tab where I can type it in exactly as a want it. I now have to look around for different WYSIWYG Editors…
I have lots of experiments for jQuery that I made years ago. I wonder if they are helpful to anyone. Feel free to use: http://www.commadot.com/jquery/
I have lots of experiments for jQuery that I made years ago.I wonder if they are helpful to anyone. Feel free to use: Directory removed
Ok, I FINALLY upgraded my WordPress 2.0.2 to 2.1. I was so scared of messing it up, but apparently it worked fine. I just followed the instructions. It’s got lots of improvements. I am pleased that it was so painless. The UI for the 2.1 release is pretty much the same. I hate waiting to…