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Tool King hammers out more sales with more info and Web 2.0
InternetRetailer.com, IL - So it brainstormed and decided that providing more information—much more information—along with adding Web 2.0 tools and entering the realm of social … |
Despite finishing on the short end of a 2-0 loss to Fargo North on Friday evening, Williston High School varsity girls hockey coach Mikaela Rehak is hoping the outing helps build some momentum for the rest of the season.
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ID theft ringleader gets 11 years in prison
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - Defense attorney Shelley Ajax said Burns was very difficult to deal with when she first met her, "but when she got cleaned up and got on her proper … |
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Information Technology Keys Web 2.0 Deployments
CIO Today, CA - Junior staffers often are the ones who are aware of the most cutting-edge Web 2.0 tools, while CIOs and senior managers are more likely to be unaware or … Changing challenges for the public sector CIO in the credit crunch |
Microsoft’s Live Labs has released its Web Sandbox runtime under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. The company hopes to draw increased interest from outside sources and to use those sources to improve the quality of the runtime. Visit website for full story…
Some people are very excited to see the improvements that the IE team have made with IE 8 (and the hope that it will get some IE 6 users up up and away). However, others are not so happy. With IE 8 getting close to launch after the RC release, is it ready for prime time yet?
Michael Dayah (of the excellent ptable.com) doesn’t think so, and he gives the plea to not rush ahead:
IE8 is lined up to be a disaster. I’ve submitted about a dozen bugs to the
IE8 connect, but Microsoft is marking some as won’t fix and others are brand
new regressions with RC1. I know this really isn’t your primary interest,
but I was hoping you could assist in a grassroots effort to get IE
development pushed back a few more months in order to avoid another decade
of disaster on the web.Here are a few screenshots of the mess IE8 RC1 is making of ptable.com:
Writing-mode: tb-rl now stretches to ridiculous heights (bug).
Radio buttons can no longer be packed in with height or margin (bug).
IE7 compatibility mode introduces white lines between border-collapse cells (bug).
Then we have kangax talking about misbehaving IE 8 and how you can still kill it with:
What do you think? Do you have more examples like this? How are you feeling about the rendering of your sites in IE 8?
Christian Effenberger is up to his tricks once again. This time he has created a cubic-bezier-timing function in the public domain that is compatible with -webkit-transition-timing-function:
I thought that in addition to the -webkit-transition-timing-function cubic-bezier(), support for a 100% compatible easing defined by a cubic bezier function as a public domain javascript would be welcome.
It should work in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and IE.
Matthew Russell has created a nice screencast showing how to be more productive in Vim:
I’ve been doing some reflecting this week on how I can work smarter (instead of harder), and one of the things I came up with was adding a few more tools to my Vim repertoire. I spend more than half of my engineering time in Vim (the other half usually being in a web browser), so I figured that a few minutes here and there would eventually add up in a big way.
In hopes of inspiring you to do the same, I put together a short screencast (~4mins; 14.5MB QuickTime file) that talks you through how to generate a custom tags file for Dojo’s API and the keystrokes to put it to work. Although I’m specifically using Dojo, I think this technique should probably apply to a lot of other toolkits as well assuming that they define API call in a consistent manner that can be approximated by a regex.
But like anything else with Vim, there are always multiple ways of accomplishing the very same thing, so I make no guarantees that there aren’t simpler ways of getting this done — but I can say that this way gets the job done, and is pretty easy to get working on your own system.
By the way, here are links to the generateTags.sh script and the tags file (for Core) mentioned in the screencast. I’ve slightly tweaked the tags file to remove duplicate tag names and a few things that weren’t really parts of the public API (regexes are obviously imperfect heuristics). I can’t say that the tags file may not be missing a few API calls, but tags are easy enough to add in manually if you do notice any omissions.
How do you extend your tools to give you a hammer that is suited to your work?
