Archive for March, 2006

For Josh

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Inspired by a forward-thinking greasemonkey script, may I present the nomify bookmarklet. (mouse-click or press a key to return to your boring page).

WDHV and Maria Taylor

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

WDHV 101.7 is a little FM station in Trenton that plays some great pre-70’s classic country. The other day I caught the tail end of “Talk Back Trembling Lips” from 1963 and the rhythm section and reverb filled the van so nicely–it made my morning. They do slip in later stuff and even up to [...]

No more CC applications, please

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Cost = 1 stamp. I’ll see how it goes..

IE7 Compatible Float Clearing

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

According to the latest news at least. Includes font-size:0 per the original author of this mess.
.clearfix:after {
content:”.”;
display:block;
height:0;
font-size:0;
clear:both;
visibility:hidden;
}
.clearfix {display:inline-block;}
/* \\*/
* html .clearfix {height:1%;}
.clearfix {display:block;}
/* */

Detect a blocked pop-up window

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Since reliable info doesn’t seem to be out there, this Javascript detects if a pop-up window was blocked at least by IE6/XPsp2’s built-in blocker, FF or Opera 8.
var popWin; // global for easy reference later
function pop(url, name, features, replace) {
popWin = open(url, name, features, replace);
if (popWin == [...]

Spore

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

This game is all about scale. Think “The Sims” from the molecular level to the galactic with everything in between. At least watch long enough to see your animal doin’ it (soft jazz with sax helps set the mood). As a programmer, this thing makes my greatest accomplishments feel like Pong.

Futuramarama

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Update: oops, it’ll be 4 movies instead of the series. Billy might as well hold a press conference to announce we’re all jive suckers.
Straight from the man (via Dana):
…they’re doing 26 new episodes of “Futurama” for TV…

More reasons why this show had to come back.

Why me

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Kathleen told me a scarran e-mailed her on MySpace, but he didn’t cover Innocence Mission songs. I’m lucky because chicks love heat glands.

Subversioning

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I’ve been hearing great things about source control for awhile so I dug in and installed Subversion using this new tutorial. While you can interact with the svn server from the command-line, the TortoiseSVN Windows shell extension makes managing imports, updates and commits as simple as a right click.
My first project contains all the files [...]

Build what you see

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I’m really digging this agile software development idea, which boils down to:

Create the user interface.
Build the code to power it.

Without a UI, you just have a bunch of developers and stakeholders, each having a vague notion of what the app will do and look like, and who it will serve. This leads to:

frustration for all [...]